Aussie grandmother fighting for life after freak accident while on holiday in Bali as family desperately seek funds to help pay for massive medical bills

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Daily Mail · collected 2026-10-19 · by Antoinette Milienos

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Estelle Ravenscroft, 79, an Australian grandmother from Busselton, Western Australia, is hospitalized in Bali following a severe accident that occurred when she slipped and fell into an open stairwell while using the bathroom at a restaurant last week. Suffering from osteoporosis, Mrs. Ravenscroft sustained six fractures across both legs and had to undergo nine hours of emergency surgery without full anesthesia due to complications with pain medication. Her family is raising funds through GoFundMe to cover her extensive medical costs and future care needs as she remains in critical condition in the ICU.
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Estelle Ravenscroft, a 79-year-old grandmother from Busselton, Western Australia, is critically ill in a hospital in Bali after suffering severe injuries from a fall during her holiday. Last weekend, while using the bathroom at a restaurant, she slipped into an open stairwell and landed on steps below, fracturing both of her upper legs with three breaks in each leg due to her condition of osteoporosis. She was rushed to the hospital where doctors attempted to manage her pain but she had a serious adverse reaction to the opioid injection administered for pain relief, causing her vital signs to plummet and inducing convulsions.

Currently unable to communicate, Ravenscroft remains hospitalized with her husband Keith by her side. Her condition is expected to require specialized transport and care upon her eventual discharge back to Australia. A GoFundMe campaign has raised almost $12,000 towards a goal of $100,000 to cover the medical expenses including ambulance transport, imaging, intensive care, emergency surgery, blood transfusions, and ongoing treatment.

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📰 Busselton Grandmother's Bali Accident
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“Both articles describe the identical incident involving Estelle Ravenscroft, a Busselton grandmother on holiday in Bali, who suffered severe injuries from falling into an open stairwell while using the bathroom at a restaurant.”
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Antoinette Milienos
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2026-10-19 · assertive framing · Pauline Hanson issues dire warning that French-style riots 'will come to Australia' unless mass migration is stopped
🔮 A GoFundMe has been created to help raise funds to cover the cost of her mother's surgery and ongoing medical treatment (pictured, Mrs Ravenscroft and her husband Keith) Mrs Ravenscroft remains unable to communicate and was still in hospital as of Saturday, with her husband by her side. The couple's family are also concerned about her eventual discharge from hospital, which remains a long way off, as her condition would require specialised transport and care once she returns home to Australia.
2026-10-19 · assertive framing · Aussie grandmother fighting for life after freak accident while on holiday in Bali as family desperately seek funds to help pay for massive medical bills
🔮 'He's (allegedly) come towards me, and then all of a sudden … he douses me with petrol,' he told Nine News from his hospital bed. 'I could just smell petrol all over my hair, my eyebrows, smoke in my eyes, just everything. '
2026-10-18 · mixed framing · Security guard caught 'sleeping on the job' just hours before hospital patient allegedly doused three people in petrol and set one on fire in Sydney
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Aussie Bali Busselton Perth Western Australia

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Ravenscroft PERSON · 7× Bali GPE · 4× Keith PERSON · 3× Busselton GPE · 2× Estelle Ravenscroft PERSON · 2× GoFundMe ORG · 2× Perth GPE · 2× Walsh PERSON · 2× Aussie NORP · 1× Western Australia GPE · 1×

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A GoFundMe has been created to help raise funds to cover the cost of her mother's surgery and ongoing medical treatment (pictured, Mrs Ravenscroft and her husband Keith) Mrs Ravenscroft remains unable to communicate and was still in hospital as of Saturday, with her husband by her side. The couple's family are also concerned about her eventual discharge from hospital, which remains a long way off, as her condition would require specialised transport and care once she returns home to Australia.
framing: assertive · carried by 1 article(s) · first seen 2026-10-19
🔮 A GoFundMe has been created to help raise funds to cover the cost of her mother's surgery and ongoing medical treatment (pictured, Mrs Ravenscroft and her husband Keith) Mrs Ravenscroft remains unable to communicate and was still in hospital as of Saturday, with her husband by her side. The couple's family are also concerned about her eventual discharge from hospital, which remains a long way off, as her condition would require specialised transport and care once she returns home to Australia.
2026-10-19 · Daily Mail
Aussie grandmother fighting for life after freak accident while on holiday in Bali as family desperately seek funds to help pay for massive medical bills · assertive framing

Claims (25 extracted, 2 hedged)

An Aussie grandmother is fighting for her life in hospital after slipping in a restaurant bathroom and falling into an open stairwell while on her annual holiday in Bali. asserted
grandmother → fight → Bali
Estelle Ravenscroft, 79, from Busselton, about 220km south of Perth, Western Australia, was having lunch with her husband Keith at a restaurant in Bali last week when she suffered the 'horrific fall'. asserted
she → have → fall
Mrs Ravenscroft, who suffers from osteoporosis, was using the ladies' bathroom when she slipped and fell into an open stairwell before landing on the steps below. asserted
she → suffer → steps
'A simple lunch at a restaurant and a visit to the ladies bathroom has ended up being a nightmare beyond belief,' her daughter Leonie Walsh wrote on GoFundMe. asserted
daughter → end → GoFundMe
Emergency services rushed her to hospital, where doctors discovered she had suffered six severe fractures across her upper legs – three in each leg. asserted
she → rush → leg
To help manage her excruciating pain, doctors administered an opioid injection. asserted
doctors → help → injection
However, Mrs Ravenscroft then suffered a serious adverse reaction to the pain medication. asserted
Ravenscroft → suffer → medication
Western Australian woman Estelle Ravenscroft, 79, is fighting for her life while in hospital in Bali after suffering a horrific fall The 29-year-old grandmother was at a restaurant with her husband when she slipped in the bathroom before falling into an open stairwell ' asserted
she → fight → stairwell
She was given an opioid injection for the pain which caused a terrible reaction,' Ms Walsh wrote. asserted
Walsh → give → reaction
'Her vitals plummeted and she started convulsing. asserted
she → plummet → ?
This was so severe that we were close to losing her. asserted
we → lose → her
' Due to her severe reaction, her medical team had to manually realign the bones in both legs without pain medication before placing them into traction using weights. asserted
team → have → weights
Mrs Ravenscroft underwent emergency surgery, which took a staggering nine hours. asserted
which → undergo → hours
The procedure was not performed entirely under general anaesthetic because the opioids had affected her heart. asserted
opioids → perform → heart
She remains in the intensive care unit, where her condition has worsened. asserted
condition → remain → unit
'Post surgery, she has had to have two blood transfusions for the amount of blood loss,' her daughter explained. 'Her ongoing medical care and treatment for the heart, oxygen and blood issues resulting from the reaction to the pain injections, has exacerbated. asserted
care → have → injections
Her mouth and throat have now swollen affecting her even more.' She suffered six severe fractures to both her legs and underwent nine hours of surgery. asserted
She → swell → surgery
Ms Ravenscroft also suffered an adverse reaction to pain relief medication which has affected her heart asserted
which → suffer → heart
A GoFundMe has been created to help raise funds to cover the cost of her mother's surgery and ongoing medical treatment (pictured, Mrs Ravenscroft and her husband Keith) Mrs Ravenscroft remains unable to communicate and was still in hospital as of Saturday, with her husband by her side. The couple's family are also concerned about her eventual discharge from hospital, which remains a long way off, as her condition would require specialised transport and care once she returns home to Australia. asserted
she → create → Australia
'She may require specialist hospital treatment and extensive rehabilitation in Perth,' Mrs Ravenscroft's great-niece Brieanna Fisher told WA Today. uncertain
Fisher → require → Today
'This could mean Estelle and Keith are unable to return directly to their Busselton home and may face a prolonged period away from their familiar surroundings, friends and community. uncertain
Estelle → mean → surroundings
The couple's distress has been compounded by the fact that they did not have travel insurance, despite having taken out cover for their numerous previous trips to Bali. asserted
they → compound → Bali
Ms Walsh started a GoFundMe to help raise funds to cover the cost of her mother's surgery and ongoing medical treatment. asserted
Walsh → start → surgery
'The cost for this kind of surgery as well as the previous and ongoing medical treatment is monumental,' she wrote. asserted
she → write → surgery
'On behalf of all the family, we want to say thank you to everyone who has been able to donate no matter how big or small.' asserted
who → want → everyone
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