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and neck as they carried him up to
a flatbed truck. Sometime later they
placed Eno beside him in the cargo
area. Her hair was soaked and mat-
ted with blood and grime. More blood
covered her torso and legs. Lythcott
barely recognized her.
At 8:14 a.m.—nearly four hours
after Mikey Lythcott posted his plea
for help on Facebook—Caitlin from
Prague, who had been in constant
touch with the hospital in Ubud,
posted: “UPDATE—HE IS OKAY AND IN
THE HOSPITAL!”
Friends from Portland to Pretoria,
Seattle to Sydney, breathed a collec-
tive sigh of relief.
Their sentiments could be summed
up by a post from Jay Holmes: “Thank
you, that’s what we all needed
to hear.”
Eno spent eight days at a hospital in
Bali before returning to her teaching
job in South Korea. She had suffered
a fractured wrist, shattered cheek-
bones, severe injuries to her mouth

and tongue and a badly broken nose.

Lythcott’s condition was worse: in-

ternal bleeding, collapsed lungs, a

broken wrist, broken ribs, a fractured

back and skull, a perforated colon, a

bruised liver. But three weeks after

the crash, he was out of the hospital

and recuperating at his sister’s house

in Atlanta.

A miracle? Maybe. But there’s a les-

son here too. As Georgia Chapman

Costa, one of Lythcott’s Facebook

friends, put it on the feed: “When

people come together, wonderful

things happen.” Even when they are

coming together somewhere way out

there in cyberspace.

"Try to hang on,” Lythcott

said. “Help is coming.”

“How long?”

He had no idea.

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