Georgia college student on life support after Mexico spring break collapse now recovering: report

A University of Georgia student is beginning to recover in a hospital after experiencing a brain hemorrhage while on spring break in Mexico, according to local reports.

UGA senior Liza Burke's family had created a GoFundMe to get donations for Burke's transportation from the southernmost tip of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, where she was on life support for several days.

"This morning the doctor told us to expect some good days and some bad," Burke's mother, Laura McKeithen told McClatchy News on Wednesday. "I would say today is a good day!"

Florida doctors reportedly removed Burke's temporary pacemaker and took her off all medication except those for pain, McClatchy reported.

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She was breathing on her own, "squeezing hands, wiggling toes and even lifting her head from the pillow," McKeithen told the outlet.

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Burke had been eating breakfast on her last day of spring break March 10 when she experienced a headache that took a turn for the worse.

"A few hours later, her friends called the doctor because they couldn't wake her. She was immediately rushed to the hospital where she was diagnosed with Arteriovenous malformation (AVM) which cause her brain to hemorrhage," Burke's friend, Jennifer Ritter, wrote in the description of a GoFundMe for Burke's medical needs that has since stopped taking donations.

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The Mayo Clinic describes AVM as "a tangle of blood vessels that irregularly connects arteries and veins, disrupting blood flow and oxygen circulation."

The exact cause of AVM is unknown, and it is "rarely hereditary," according to the Mayo Clinic. 

One of Burke's friends described her as "sunshine personified" and "authentic to her core" in a Facebook post. 

Her family is awaiting MRI test results, according to McClatchy.

Pakistani mourners attend funeral for field hockey player who died in migrant boat crash off Italy's coast

Mourners attended the funeral Friday of a Pakistani female field hockey player who died in a migrant boat crash off Italy’s coast last month, sending a wave of shock and grief through this impoverished Islamic nation.

The boat carrying the athlete, Shahida Raza, and 170 others set sail from the Turkish port of Izmir last month. Aboard were people from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and other countries who were seeking a better quality of life in Europe. It broke apart in rough waters off Calabria, killing Raza and at least 66 others.

Raza's funeral and burial took place in Quetta, the capital of southwestern Baluchistan province, a day after her body was repatriated from Italy with help from the country's Foreign Ministry.

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Raza's family said the athlete attempted to emigrate to Europe to find a good job and earn money for the treatment of her disabled son, 3, so he could live a normal life. The boy, who was not on the boat, suffered brain damage as a baby and is also paralyzed on one side of his body. He remained in Pakistan.

The athlete's younger sister, Sadia Raza, said on Friday that her elder sister went on the voyage due to financial problems.

"She gave her life just for her sick child," the athlete's sister said. She thanked the government for bringing back Raza's body so that she can be buried in her own country.

Photographs of Raza donning the country’s national colors and sporting accolades have appeared on television and social media. But most people came to know of her after her death, as women’s sports are not widely televised in Pakistan.