Help a dumb-ass who went to Bali without travel insurance…
Be honest, when was the last time you did a good thing?
I won’t utter the term selflessness, because in this condition we call human, there are only selfish actions. Bank robbers are just as selfish as Red Cross volunteers are just as selfish as Trump re: ice cream.
Certain types of selfishness are more socially justifiable than others but, in the end, we do what makes us feel good. Sometimes feeling good means rolling around in a pile of undeserved Franklins, other times it means giving the shirt off your back. This time it could mean saving a life.
The skinny: Cristian Bosco, a Spanish-born surfer, went on a trip to Bali to experience its surf and culture. A month-and-a-half later, still enjoying his Indonesian sojourn, Cristian experienced an incessant nosebleed. A trip to the hospital resulted in devastating news — he’d contracted acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow.
The Balinese doctors are incapable of treating the disease, and because he lacks proper travel insurance, Cristian is unable to fund an emergency medevac back to Spain — a one-way fare of $140,000.
According to his crowdfunding page, Cristian is stuck in Bali while the disease continues to worsen. Happily, the surfing community has contributed up to 82% of the medevac fee, and there’s still time left to donate. Surely, by 2017, you know what to do.
While weighing your options, keep in mind that this could happen to any single one of us. When was the last time you got your entire body scanned for tumors? Never? Yeah, Cristian probably hadn’t either.
Plugging tunnels one day, bed-ridden and dying the next. C’est la vie.
So don’t be selfish. Or, actually, do. But be the good kind of selfish and donate today!
Michael ciaramella!! Shitty fucking journalists not that i got to explain to you but i did have medical insurance with 2 million dollars on evac that i paid extra for incase i got hurt surfing i could get evacuated so you are the dumbass buddy!! The insurance kept delaying my evac day by day and thats why we had to do it ourselfs, it wasn’t a scam and it was some hard shit! Still sick and still fighting for my lifee!! Feel really really greatfull from all the people that helped me thank god their not assholes like you!!! Dont wish this upon nobody and i hope it never happens to you or your family and somebody writes stupid shitt like you did! And if im here today is not thanks to you thats for sure
Really…?140K one way. I’d get three quotes, Or risk an Air Asia one way to Perth and pay privately for treatment. My guess is you’d save yourself about 120K. [he does look well enough on that instagram to survive a 3hr 34min flight, but maybe he’s not, in which case I’m a real douche].
Word.
Be optimistic, right? Believe you’re gonna get better. You could put that extra cash into buying a Mentawi.
I was thinking the same, but stayed silent (because of the douche fear).
I think some of the information in this article needs verification. Not too sure how well MC’s checked his primary sources. Sorry to the sick Spaniard if I’ve douched.
Y’all do remember what happened the last time the Grit asked us to crowdfund a surfer with cancer right?
And remember the swift karmic response…
According to the family he had an insurance…
“proper” being the operative word… derek added derogatory titles!
According to his crowdfunding page he did get insurance, for what it’s worth.
And he’s Mexican.
And Spanish, as his dad is Spanish. He also lives and works in Spain. And yes, it seems he had insurance with Trawick International, which refused to pay or at least that’s what they say in most national newspapers and in some of the national TV channels.
Is true! Cantabria. I have obviously been living under a rock for the past few days.
but … but .. you can save fifty bucks!