A Scooter Accident In Bali Left Her In A Coma And Her Family Needed To Raise Over $250,000 To Get Her Home To California
Santa Clara, California. Kaitlyn McCaffery is a young woman from Santa Clara who has spent the past few years exploring some incredible corners of the world.
Kaitlyn has been to more than 50 countries around the globe, and she has made friends pretty much everywhere she has been.
Kaitlyn’s loved ones describe her as kind, cheery, bright, and the sweetest soul you could ever hope to meet in your life.
This summer, Kaitlyn had been spending her time in Bali, Indonesia, and unfortunately, she suffered an accident there that left her in a coma with a brain injury.
It was on July 31st and Kaitlyn was headed back to her apartment, riding her scooter.
Kaitlyn suffered an awful accident on her way home, and thankfully, two strangers stopped to help her.
“Two young men found her on a remote road, alone, unconscious, broken, and bleeding,” Dena Gustus Cruz, a friend of Kaitlyn’s mom, wrote on a GoFundMe page.
“Without their help, she surely would have died.”
GoFundMe; Kaitlyn is pictured above
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Kaitlyn was rushed to a nearby hospital in Denpasar, Bali, where she was diagnosed with several terrible injuries, including a traumatic brain injury.
Her family wasn’t able to fly to Bali to be with her, as the government wouldn’t allow it, and they struggled to communicate with the hospital employees who were taking care of Kaitlyn, which left them unsure of the condition that Kaitlyn truly was in.
Kaitlyn’s family members were able to find a hospital in California that was willing to accept Kaitlyn, and so they were left with the daunting task of coming up with the money to pay for the international medevac to airlift her home.
The distance from California to Bali, coupled with multiple closures of different borders, meant that if Kaitlyn was going to be airlifted home, it would cost her family at least $250,000.
Dena put together a GoFundMe page to help get Kaitlyn home, which was able to raise the money needed; $262,904.00.
On August 22nd, close to a month after Kaitlyn’s terrible accident, she was safely flown from Bali to Stanford Hospital Neurocritical Care Unit in California.
“The doctors at Stanford have already uncovered much more detail as it relates to Kaitlyn’s injuries,” Kaitlyn’s family members Janine and Jennifer McCaffery wrote in an update.
“My good friend Dena started this GoFundMe and we never expected to garner such an incredible response. We are so grateful for everyone’s prayers and donations that made this possible. We are able to be by Kaitlyn’s side, discuss medical developments with the doctors in real time, and have a great deal of confidence in the care she is receiving.”
Kaitlyn still faces a very long road on her recovery, and the additional money raised through the GoFundMe page will go towards Kailtyn’s medical care and rehab.
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