Yoga instructor left with ‘shattered leg’ after scooter crash in Bali
A yoga instructor has described dragging herself to the side of the road after her leg was ‘shattered’ in a scooter crash in Bali.
Jasmine Daisy, from Brighton, recalled the ‘disgusting’ scene of her right leg ‘almost at a 90-degree angle’ after two drunk men drove into her scooter last week in the small village of Uluwatu, on the Indonesian island of Bali.
The 33-year-old travelled to Bali a month before the incident, in the hopes of finding work online and ended up teaching at a week-long yoga retreat.
Jasmine has now warned of the dangers of travelling without insurance, as she has had to use her entire savings to pay thousands of pounds of worth of medical bills to x-ray and reconstruct leg.
She described the impact two strangers on a moped ‘swerved around a taxi and came crashing into her’ and her friend, David, as the pair were riding back on a moped from dinner last Thursday September 26.
Speaking to Metro as she recovered from her injuries in Bali, she said: ‘I flew off the scooter and landed on my legs.
‘One of my legs was complete jelly and was snapped to the side. I thought they were going to have to cut my leg off.
‘I dragged myself to the side of the road on my forearms, just to get out of the traffic.’
While David escaped from the crash unharmed, Jasmine was driven to the Bali Jimbaran Hospital, with her tibia and fibula shattered completely in half. She was placed in a hospital bay next to the two men who collided with her and David.
Being told that her leg could be treated was a ‘massive weight off my shoulders,’ but without travel insurance she became “overwhelmed” by the constant medical bills for her treatment.
Jasmine added: ‘I was really freaking out. They wouldn’t let me have surgery until I paid.
‘The medication bills just kept coming in every single day. All the receipts and the writing were in Indonesian and the medication gave me blurry vision so I could not really see. It was very overwhelming.’
Jasmine has already paid £5,211 for successful reconstructive surgery on her leg.
She is now fundraising £13,000 to cover the rest of her costs.
These include £2,000 to £4,000 is needed to pay for her hospital care, post recovery surgery and rehabilitation. She also is fundraising more than £2,000 for a business class ticket back to the UK, which will allow her to keep her leg raised and avoid a blood clot on the flight home.
The fundraiser will also cover a further £1,000 worth of unforeseen rehabilitation costs and medical expenses that could arise as she attempts to get back to the UK safely.
In the meantime, Jasmine is in Bali without any close friends or family by her side as they are unable to fly out and be with her.
She said: ‘I feel alone. Bali is not a place I can navigate, with bumpy dirt roads it is not very wheelchair friendly.
‘I am trying to come home because I know when I am home my family will be able to look after me.’
The GoFundMe has already raised more than £3,000 and has been ‘so helpful’ in allowing her to cover costs and pay for a nurse to look after her after leaving hospital on Monday, September 30.
Jasmine had been in Bali for a month without travel insurance and had unsuccessfully tried to get insured following a close call on her scooter two weeks ago.
Now, she is warning other travels not to make the same mistake and take out insurance before they leave their home country.
She said: ‘You always think nothing is going to happen to you. You can get a severe injury, and they could refuse to treat you before you have paid.’
While two men who crashed in Jasmine were later taken by hospital staff to the foot of her bed and made to apologise, Jasmine holds nothing against them and has forgiven the pair.
Despite the ordeal, Jasmine said she is incredibly grateful for the help she has received so far from others.
‘Lots of people have been calling me since I started the GoFundMe page, I feel very supported,’ she said. ‘The staff at the hospital were so lovely.’
On Tuesday, two Indonesian ladies drove more than two hours on a scooter just to visit her and are trying to organise a carer for her after hearing about her situation from mutual friends.
Jasmine said she has not been deterred from travelling or from spending more time in Indonesia despite the crash, and dreams of starting her own yoga retreat.
‘I am just grateful that my body is okay and that I am alive,’ she added.