Aussie woman reveals injuries after horror jetski accident

A woman from Port Macquarie, NSW, has revealed the horrific moment she fell from a jetski, leaving her with gruesome internal injuries.

Matilda, 21, was on the jetski with two other friends, when she lost grip of the woman in front of her.

Matilda slipped from the seat into the water, causing the jet of the jetski to “shoot up” her rectum.

“This was my first and last time on a jetski,” Matilda said on her TikTok story, which has been viewed more than a million times.

“I was sitting on the back of the jetski when the accident happened … and we were riding along and I somehow lost grip of the person in front of me and somehow fell backwards.

“The water jet shot up my bum and tore up all my insides.”

Matilda said as soon as she fell off the jetski she knew something was very wrong, describing how she “kept on vomiting every couple of seconds” before being rescued.

“Every time I vomited I felt intestines coming out of my bum,” she said.

“Once I got to shore, the paramedics came and they saved me. I woke up in the hospital 24 hours later and I found out that I had perforated my bowel, my intestines and tore my sphincters. It meant that all the contents of my bowel went inside my abdominal cavity as well as some dirt and water from the lake.”

A perforated bowel occurs when a hole develops the bowel wall, part of your gastrointestinal tract. The GI tract runs from your throat to your rectum. Food travels down your oesophagus, into your stomach, where it empties into your small intestine, and then into your large intestine, or bowel.

As a result of the accident, Matilda said the surgeons needed to remove her abdominal organs where they were cleaned. The bowel and the kidney needed to be “fixed” before being put back in.

“They had to create a stoma [an opening on the abdomen] due to the damage that was done,” she said.

One commenter asked if she had recovered from the horror ordeal, in which she replied she was still not 100 per cent better.

“I’ve heard of this kind of accident, and it’s kind of common,” one person wrote.

“Sometimes it can be way worse and people lose some of their intestines.”

One person claimed some jetskis actually come with a warning of this kind of injury.

“I work at a jetski company and I have heard horror stories like this,” one person wrote.

“I’m just blown away … I’m so sorry this happened to you.”
News.com.au has contacted Matilda for comment.

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