A glamorous tourist has warned Australians to get travel insurance before visiting Bali while being hospitalized and racking up thousands of dollars in medical bills.
Kelsey Foster, 28, was enjoying the ride of her life when she tore a ligament in her ankle after slipping on a tile in Bali’s notorious Legion Street shopping district.
“I slipped on the tile and my ankle broke under me,” he explained. Then I got a 12 hour sitting tattoo on my leg thinking it was just a sprain. Now I’m off my foot for months.
A glamorous tourist has warned Australians to get travel insurance before visiting Bali while being hospitalized and racking up thousands of dollars in medical bills.
Kelsey Foster, 28, was enjoying the ride of her life when she tore a ligament in her ankle after slipping on a tile in Bali’s notorious Legion Street shopping district.
‘I’m struggling to stay awake. I have never felt pain like this,” she said. “The worst part of this pain is being told I can’t take painkillers because it will mask the potential result that I might have blood clots. Sitting in excruciating pain is debilitating.’
Fortunately, Ms. Foster had purchased travel insurance at the last minute before her trip.
“Got an emergency business class flight home back to Australia, tickets alone cost over $4000 + over $1000 worth of meds and scans for me in Indonesia,” he explained.
‘The [insurance company] they were up to date and very helpful. They called me several times a day to check that I was okay and that everything was in place. They arranged wheelchair assistance, all our tickets and airport needs and medical expenses.’
On Tuesday, after returning to Australia and visiting a hospital in New South Wales, Foster revealed the full extent of his injuries.
“Tore a ligament in his ankle, fractured the outside of his foot,” he said.
‘Ultrasound tomorrow to check for DVT (deep vein thrombosis) to make sure I can’t go to hospital. I’m struggling to stay awake. I had never felt pain like this.
“I think the last seven days with everything that’s happened has exhausted me emotionally, mentally and physically.”
“I spent about 20 minutes crying hysterically,” she said.
Last week, Ms Foster was attacked by online trolls after she donated food to a children’s orphanage in Bali.
Foster took time out of her vacation to drop off essentials like rice, noodles, and cooking oil, as well as candy and stuffed animals.
Australian tourist Kelsey Foster (right) criticized people who accused her of using a Balinese orphanage as a “photograph” of being “extremely childish”
Ms Foster (centre) shared photos from her time at a Balinese orphanage on Sunday but was criticized for wearing “inappropriate” attire.
However, harsher critics focused more on Ms. Foster’s revealing outfit than her good deeds and accused her of using underprivileged children as a “photo opportunity”.
But Ms Foster hit back at the haters, saying she would never have faced such criticism if she were a “middle-aged” woman.
“People were saying I was disrespectful for not covering my skin and I did it on social media, just some really rude people saying I didn’t really mean it or I didn’t do it for the kids,” she told Yahoo! News.
‘I guarantee if it was a middle-aged man or woman, they wouldn’t make a fuss. It’s because I’m a woman and I have big breasts that are hard to hide.’
“The driver and I checked that it was okay to go in wearing swimsuits and they said yes and invited us in.”
The children didn’t care what she was wearing. They had the biggest smiles seeing all the food and things I brought them.
The young woman, who has more than 7,000 followers on Facebook, now wants to use her followers on social networks to help people.
“It’s not bad to remind people of ways to help others,” he said.
“If I accepted donations and didn’t post on social media to share with friends, I would have been tagged as a scammer or something, so either way you win some and lose some.”
Ms Foster explained she was wearing a bathing suit to combat the 90F heat and humidity, but cruel commenters believed there was no excuse for dressing ‘inappropriately’.
Ms. Foster handed out popsicles and stuffed animals to the children at the orphanage and donated essentials such as cooking oil and rice (Ms. Foster is pictured with one of the children)
Ms Foster said any idea of her using the Balinese orphanage as a photo opportunity was “extremely childish” (pictured is Ms Foster at the orphanage)
“Next time it would probably be a lot more respectful to keep your pups in your clothes,” one person wrote.
“It’s not something kids need to experience at a young age.”
Another social media user accused Ms Foster of not properly investigating the orphanage and checking that it was not a facility that preyed on children.
‘I’m not hating on anyone. I’m just saying that tourists in Bali should be more responsible in how they help children,” they wrote.
‘Charities must be transparent and accountable about how they operate.
“I understand that the poster meant well, but this is not a good example of how we can support children in need.”
However, other commenters were quick to jump to Ms Foster’s defense.
“It’s such a beautiful thing,” wrote one. It doesn’t matter what you wear. That is not what the post about peeps is about. God bless you.’
Ms Foster added that she bought the donated items from a local family store and received money from her Australian friends to give to the orphanage (above).