As specials on Facebook and friends around the world have saved the life of an American in Bali

Mika Litkott has friends all over the world, mainly because he has visited dozens of countries. A man keeps friends informed about his travels through social networks.

Photo: Michael Lythcott / Facebook

And when the accident on a scooter sent Litkotta and his fellow traveler from the road into a ditch, these numerous friends saved his life, writes CNN.

The 36-year-old American expat living in Lisbon (Portugal) often published stories and photos about his adventures on Facebook, but instead of photographs of the new beach or exotic fruit, he published only 22 August: “Help. I am in danger. Call the police. ”

Litkott and his fellow traveler Stacy Eno rode on a scooter in Ubud on the Indonesian island of Bali when a van drove past them blocked the visibility of the road, which further led to the accident.

“After he passed, I saw the turn, I pressed the brakes, but they didn’t work, leaving us very little time to maneuver and turn,” said the American.

Litkott and Hainaut met in February in Thailand. Eno teaches English in South Korea, they have planned to meet again in Bali. They were in Indonesia for the entire 7 watch when their scooter had an accident.

When the fall was over and Lytkot came to his senses, he said, he saw nothing but sky, there were only trees around.

It was dark, but the man felt that he was lying on some kind of slope and sliding down it. His helmet and goggles were lost; moreover, the American's left wrist was not bent.

“I felt like my back was broken. I couldn't move and could barely pull myself up using a thick vine I found in the dark. And I constantly continued to slide down,” the traveler recalls.

Litkott heard the sound of water and suggested that if he slid even lower, he would soon fall.

Once again he called Eno, and she finally answered. She told him that she could not move, and he decided that she was seriously injured.

“Then I thought, ‘I’m going to die here,’ because no one knows we’re here or that we went here, we were both wounded and for a brief moment I couldn’t even remember how I got here,” the man admitted.

Lytkott decided that he had to do something, try to solve the situation. He had a phone with a local SIM card, but he must have been lost during the accident because he could not find it. But his other phone with an American SIM card was in his jacket pocket.

He turned it on, started roaming, the signal was very weak, but the man managed to turn on the SOS function in Facebook. And he began to wait.

“I saw Mika's message a minute or two after it appeared. I work remotely and usually keep Facebook open while I work. When I saw the message, I was amazed and a little surprised. I was worried he might have been kidnapped or something,” said Lythcott’s friend Aimee Sparks.

Sparks and Litcott became friends in Seattle in 2004, they visited Nepal together in 2014.

“I was going to text him, but I remembered there was a call option now, so I called him. I think I was the first one to talk to him,” the woman said.

A personal conversation was able to drop all doubts at once, such as stealing a phone or breaking into an account. The woman knew the voice of Litcott and therefore immediately realized that it was really him and that he needed help.

But Litkott could use only one hand, and the battery in his phone would sit down.

According to Sparks, the man was very disoriented, but was able to send her a message with a location in WhatsApp in response to her request.

After this, many Litcott friends took part in the rescue operation. Sparks from Vancouver began calling on the phones she could find in Indonesia.

A friend in Los Angeles used online maps to find out Litcott’s whereabouts, post this information in a commentary under the help post, and the rescuers in Indonesia received it as a result. A friend in Prague published the consulate numbers in the comments, and a friend in the Netherlands called the Bali police.

Screenshot from WhatsApp

Sparks, meanwhile, contacted the consulate and sent them screenshots of the map on which the approximate location of the man was noted.

Litcott was called from the consulate in an attempt to clarify his location and was told that the rescuers were on the way.

At this point, Eno began to crawl along the ravine, and Litkott felt that he was losing consciousness.

According to the traveler, after three or four hours (at least he felt that way), they heard voices and called for help. These were the rescuers who dragged the victims from the ravine.

“It was morning. And I saw that we had slid very deep into the ravine,” Lythcott said.

At first, the victims were taken to the nearest hospital, but later, because of the seriousness of the injuries, they were transferred to a more equipped hospital.

Photo: Michael Lythcott / Facebook

Litkott underwent surgery on his wrist and skull, he also had tubes inserted into his lungs to restore breathing, and had several difficult manipulations on his stomach. He was in the hospital until September 3. At the moment, the man is in a hotel in Kuta (Indonesia).

Photo: Stacey Eno / Facebook

Eno broke both cheekbones, nose and left wrist, in addition, the woman's tongue is damaged. At the moment she has already returned to South Korea.

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