A DEVOTED mother flew out to Bulgaria today to be with her hospitalised son amid fears his condition is worsening.

Mandy Doyle and another son, Marcus, left early this morning to be at 29-year-old Michael’s bedside.

Michael, from Penhill, had flown out to the coastal resort of Sunny Beach for a week-long holiday with two other friends on July 24 and was due to return back home on Sunday, July 31.

But just four days into their summer break he was hospitalised after experiencing abdominal pains for around two or three days that gradually got worse.

Having never had such pains before yhe former Headlands School pupil went to the hotel doctor at his resort and was immediately hospitalised at the Life Hospital in Bourgas.

There doctors found him in a “forced position” in bed due to the severe pain coming from his abdomen.

Ultrasound scans and X-rays were carried out on him and he has since undergone surgery on seven occasions, most recently on Sunday evening.

His mum Mandy said she was desperate to get her son home to the UK.

Despite having travel insurance he was not covered to be flown home, and the family launched a desperate fundraising bid to pay for a medical flight that would see him return back to the UK on board a plane tended by medical professionals.

Facing a bill of upwards of £22,000 the family set up a just giving page while several pubs held fundraisers over the weekend in avid to help.

Their online total currently stands at £1,790.

Mandy’s husband John, already in Bulgaria, and has been having meetings with his son’s doctors, who have advised him that things weren’t looking good for Michael who is being treated for septicaemia.

Mandy told the Adver: “We have got to be there. I just want to be with my son now.”

To support the family’s fundraising efforts visit crowdfunding.justgiving.com/BringMichaelhome