While we where having a hit of tennis on the tennis court here Ben misjudged where the fence was and rolled his foot on the metal bar at the bottom of the fence resulting in breaking and dislocating three of the bones in is foot.
With Ben being in a whole lot of pain we headed to one of the expat medical clinics to find out Ben needed to be referred to a specialist here in Jakarta because the break wasn't straight across the foot. That same night we went off to see the foot specialist who consults from one of the hospitals here. This is where we found out that Ben would need an operation so we then spoke to the medical insurance company and arranged to go to Singapore as there was no way we where going to the operation here. There is not one expat person I had spoken to that would have the operation here in Jakarta even the well off Indonesians headed out of country for major medical needs so we decided that we wanted to do the same.
After all the arrangements had been made it took three days to get Ben operated on in Singapore. I cant stress enough that when being overseas it sure pays to have medical insurance. The medical staff at the hospital where all very nice and Ben stayed in hospital for four days until we returned to Indonesia. Ben will have to return to Singapore to have the wire taken out of his foot in about eight weeks time until he has to wear a air cast boot which he is able to take off for showering.
Picture: x-ray of both feet, left foot in picture broken bones
Picture: The broken toes before operation
Picture: Ben waiting to catch flight to Singapore
Picture: Ben's feet, left foot normal, right foot before the operation
Picture: Ben's foot after the operation
Picture: Bruising under Ben's foot
Picture: Ben showing the nurse he can use the crutches
Picture: After the operation Ben with air cast on his foot
