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Mount Gambier councillor Kate Amoroso reveals the symptoms you should never ignore after her daughter suffered a meningitis infection
A former model and race car driver has issued an urgent health warning to Aussies after her daughter was struck down by a deadly brain infection.
Mount Gambier councillor Kate Amoroso's daughter Tiana, 30, was left fighting for her life after contracting a severe meningitis infection caused by meningococcal B a week ago.
Tiana was rushed to hospital where she was immediately placed in a coma and put on a course of antibiotics to 'fight the infection of her life'.
She has since spent four days in intensive care.
One week on, the South Australian councillor revealed that her daughter was 'finally awake and talking' but is 'a way off from full recovery'.
The mother-of-three used her daughter's harrowing ordeal as a timely reminder to Aussies to be vigilant about extreme headaches and fevers.
'Tiana was at work the morning she got sick and by that same night she was put to sleep in ICU – that is how rapidly the meningococcal took over her body,' she wrote.
'If it weren't for the quick response of South West Healthcare to act immediately. she may not be with us.
Tiana 30, (pictured left with her mother Councillor Amoroso, on the right) had been at work in the morning but was in the ICU fighting for her life that same night
Ms Amoroso said her daughter Tiana (pictured) is now talking but is 'a way off from full recovert'
'I know everyone loves her so much and is so worried about her but please try to refrain from contacting her and definitely give her space by not visiting her at this time whilst she recovers as she needs as little as stimulation as possible at the moment.
'There will be plenty of time to visit and check up on her once she is home and rested – at this stage we're still not quite sure as to when that will be.'
She added that Tiana was 'doing better every day'.
The councillor spoke candidly in 2015 about how her ice addiction two-and-a-half years earlier almost destroyed her life.
The former race car driver has been open about her troubled past and how she began to experiment with drugs in her 20s.
The Mount Gambier councillor (pictured) has warned others to get to the emergency room straight away if they were experiencing extreme headaches and a fever
Tiana's severe meningitis infection in her brain was caused by meningococcal b (pictured)
After marrying a multimillionaire and moving to the Gold Coast, she turned to drugs in the late 2000s when she had an injury.
When Ms Amoroso was 41, she barricaded herself in her Mount Gambier forcing police to block off her street as they coaxed her out and detained her.
She told The Adelaide Advertiser she had 'wigged out' after injecting ice for eight days, as well as taking other drugs and having no sleep.
Ms Amoroso said that around the incident, she had been using about $2,000 worth of ice each week.
Now a staunch anti-drug campaigner, she has two adult daughters and a 12-year-old son and vowed to rebuild her life after it affected her relationship with her youngest child.
