Amalia has crashed - hard.

From Frank in HU Bolivia Community:

"...in my house are now Lois Pryce and Robb McElroy. The friend of Lois - her name is Amalia - had an accident close to the Titicaca Lake. She was transported with an ambulance to a hospital in La Paz. I got a call from Robb getting the bikes to La Paz, so I lent a pickup and went over for "rescue".

Now we are all working on informing her mother, the insurance, to pay the hospital etc... I will look after her alone from the minute Lois and Robb leave to travel on.

Of course I spoke with the doctors because my Spanish is better than the few words of Lois and Robb. Amalia was wearing a jet helmet and had so no face protection. So she is badly injured - Robb will tell you her injuries in a better detail (I do not know the words for all the broken bones etc.).

It seems to me that she will have to stay in hospital more than a month. Because I remember a rider (on your site) being injured in Pakistan(?) saying thanks to all those who mailed him wishing "all the best". (that was Vincent Danna, who crashed and broke his ankle in Pakistan, noted onthe HUBB.) I wondered if you could mention this accident on your site and we (later I) will print out the incoming mails to give them to her - as a little motivation. Lois, Robb and I would really appreciate it. Because she is now in "intensive care" alone, with difficulties to understand the nurses etc. - she must feel terribly alone.

Frank

Grant's note:

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