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Brittany Roth, 20, travelled from Kelowna to Indonesia for what she thought would be a month long vacation with her friends, but things took an ugly turn.
Only six days into her trip, Roth was involved in a serious moped accident and didn't receive proper medical attention until after 12 hours of travel.
On a small island near Bali, Roth slammed into a jagged rock wall on a sharp corner.
She suffered a deep, open-wound on her left leg that left her knee cap exposed, an open wound on her left foot, a torn quadricep tendon and road-rash from her knee to her toes on her right leg.
"At the time of the accident we didn't panic... I immediately asked my friend to call travel insurance," said Roth.
"One of my other friends is training to be a (paramedic), so she was helpful trying to translate the language barrier between the paramedics and myself and she was able to make sure that we could stop the bleeding."
With help from locals, the group managed to carry Roth across a bridge where they were met by an ambulance that took them to a nearby medical clinic, but the injuries were too severe to treat there.
"The nurses at the medical clinic said that the wound was too deep on my knee to fix, so from there we had to quickly find a way to pay the bill before leaving, it was about $3,500."
A second ambulance took her to a tour boat that transferred her in the darkness to Bali, where she eventually made it to a proper hospital.
"I wasn't able to get a hospital room until I could make payment so we were waiting for travel insurance to kick in and it was really tight. They said I had 15 minutes or they were going to kick me out, which was scary," said Roth.
While the accident happened at 2 p.m. Nov. 12, she didn't go for surgery until 6 a.m. the following day.
She's unsure when she will be able to walk again, and doctors say she will need rehabilitation and physiotherapy.
Roth arrived home in Kelowna on Nov. 23, spending a further $3,000 for the flight.
Tanya Schilling started a GoFundMe campaign to help Roth and her family with the medical bills, travel expenses and rehabilitation.
