A dream holiday in Bali has turned into a nightmare for a Gold Coast influencer. Khiana Smith, who is known for her fitness content on Instagram and TikTok, found herself fighting a deadly brain infection in an Indonesian hospital. Smith has so far spent nine days in the ICU, battling bacterial meningitis, before she was well enough to share her plight on social media. ‘Life is so precious, one minute I’m healthy travelling the world, living my dream life and the next I’m bed bound in ICU in Bali with a brain infection that could have killed me,’ she said in a TikTok video. The social media star explained that she now also has pneumonia and fluid on her lungs.Smith said her symptoms began with a headache, before she began experiencing ‘extreme head pains, dizziness, slurred speech, slurred vision, and a severe sensitivity to light’. A dream holiday in Bali has turned into a nightmare for a Gold Coast influencer. Khiana Smith (pictured), who is known for her fitness content on Instagram and TikTok, found herself fighting a deadly brain infection in an Indonesian hospital’I don’t know what happened, like I seriously don’t, I just woke up one day and I just had the worst headache, like I couldn’t even get out of bed,’ she explained. ‘I think I really underestimated the severity of the situation.’Smith says that she is dealing with memory issues and struggling with the language barrier she has with medical staff. ‘I have lost a lot of memory, like I really struggle to remember things,’ she said. ‘Being in a foreign country, they’re doing their best, but the language barrier is hard and feeling like your whole life is in other people’s hands and you don’t have proper answers.’Smith explained that she is constantly exhausted and ‘can’t really do anything’. The content creator is desperate to return home to Australia but is not able to fly due to the effect of cabin pressure on her brain infection. Smith has so far spent nine days in the ICU, battling bacterial meningitis, before she was well enough to share her plight on social media’I feel absolutely helpless and I just wanna go home,’ she said. She finished her post with a warning for her followers: ‘Don’t take your life or health for granted ever.’In a second post, shared on Instagram, Smith said that ‘the past week has been a complete blur.”Only a few weeks ago, I was travelling Europe on my dream holiday. Healthy, happy and living life. Never did I imagine I’d be lying in a hospital bed fighting something so serious just weeks later,’ she wrote. ‘Going from being so active and independent to barely having the energy to get out of bed has been incredibly confronting.’Bacterial meningitis is a life-threatening inflammation of the protective membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord. It is caused by a bacterial infection and considered a medical emergency that can lead to death within hours if left untreated.