A SPANISH holiday to celebrate heart transplant girl Emma Standish's recovery ended in disaster when her mother broke a bone in her back after just one day.

Now her mother Deborah is confined to her bed in a Tenerife hospital -- with her family 2000 miles away in Philips Avenue, Farnworth.

And today, from her hospital bed, she said: "We must be the unluckiest family in the world -- the last 12 months have been a complete nightmare."

She added: "I feel so miserable. I cannot move and I am missing my family .

"We were all looking forward to this holiday. It was meant to make up for the last year, but now I don't know what the future will hold."

It marks more trauma for the family who faced losing Emma, aged 11, when doctors told them she had just days to live in December.

Fortunately a heart donor was found and she underwent an 18-hour transplant operation.

But as Emma's health improved, her mother's got worse.

The pair were involved in a car crash three months ago and her mother has suffered from back pain since.

It flared up again before they were due to go on a two-week holiday to the resort of Playa de las Americas and 10 minutes into a family walk on their first day there, she collapsed in agony.

She was confined to bed and then taken to hospital in the resort where doctors have told her she had broken a disc in her back.

She will be flown back to Bolton tomorrow and will undergo an operation at the Royal Bolton Hospital.

But her partner Darren has refused to be downbeat. He said: "The way I look at it, we have got through the last year with Emma's illness and we will get through this as well.

"We will just have to go away on holiday next year."

Emma was a healthy child until she was struck down last summer with a heart condition called dilated cardiomyopathy.

She spent weeks in the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital and at the beginning of December the situation became serious when her kidneys began to fail.

A nationwide appeal was launched to find a donor and as mother and daughter travelled to the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle she was told one had been found.

Emma returned home at the beginning of February.