A Scooter Accident In Bali Left Her In A Coma With A 1% Chance Of Survival And She Is Making Big Improvements On Her Road To Recovery
Santa Clara, California. Kaitlyn McCaffery is a young woman from Santa Clara who has spent the last few years traveling to some amazing parts of the world.
She’s visited over 50 countries, and her loved ones characterize her as kind, cheery, bright, and the sweetest soul you could ever hope to meet in your life.
A few months ago, Kaitlyn was in Bali, when she, unfortunately, had a terrible accident that left her fighting for her life with a brain injury.
It was on July 31st and Kaitlyn was headed home to her apartment, riding her scooter, when she got into an accident.
Two young men stopped to help her, and she would have surely lost her life had that not intervened.
GoFundMe; Kaitlyn is pictured above
Kaitlyn was rushed to a nearby hospital, where she was she was diagnosed with several injuries, including a traumatic brain injury.
Her family found a hospital in California to transfer Kaitlyn to so she could be close to home, but she needed to be airlifted home to the tune of $250,000.
A friend of Kaitlyn’s mom named Dena Gustus Cruz put together a GoFundMe to help Kaitlyn’s family put together the money needed to safely transfer her stateside.
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It was August 22nd, close to a month after Kaitlyn’s terrible accident, when she was safely flown from Bali to Stanford Hospital Neurocritical Care Unit in California.
Recently, Kaitlyn moved to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center to start her journey to recovery.
“Moving to a new facility is a big change, but a necessary one,” Dena shared in an update on the GoFundMe page for Kaitlyn yesterday.
“Within the first week, Kaitlyn has already made significant improvements. She found her voice and now speaks all day long, although it’s weak and she might have some vocal cord paralysis.”
“She has a lot of memories prior to her accident but there are also a lot of gaps. She struggles with aphasia, so she often has difficulty finding the right words, even when she knows what she is trying to say.”
Kaitlyn is currently in the respiratory rehab unit, and after she completes her rehab there she will move on to a program that’s specific to patients with brain injuries.
“As Kaitlyn says, “I just want to be able to walk out of here.” At the time of diagnosis, she was given a 1% chance to live,” Dena continued.
“We aren’t out of the woods yet and continue to experience many daily struggles, but we make sure to always celebrate the small victories.”
If you would like to donate to Kaitlyn’s GoFundMe to help support her on her journey to recovery, you can do that here.
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