A teenage girl nearly died five times, had 81 blood transfusions, and was in a coma for three months after she came down with a 'cold' while on a school trip to France. Nell Robbins ended up on life support thinking she had caught a cold while on a school trip to southern France - which later turned out to be pneumonia. The plucky 14-year-old then suffered massive organ failure and almost died five times when infection ripped through her body. Her mum Rachael Robbins, 49, even had to cancel her wedding to fly out to Montpellier to be at her bedside. Nell was rushed to hospital with pneumonia after catching a rare bacterial infection and put on an ECMO life-support system because her lungs were not working properly.