We were staying in Belgium when my son got a bug. The closest hospital was in Germany. You could drive from Belgium to Germany in 5 mins. They wanted prepayment and husband barely had enough euros to pay the 200. They had my son all day and gave him 2 IVs and medicine. It was a new hospital and were blessed to have my daughter’s nanny who was from Germany.
My husband’s coworker fell in Toronto and broke her leg. It was going to be months before they could get to her, so they wrapped her up with meds and they drove her 4 hours back to Detroit.
Before my wife was my wife she flew from the UK to visit me in Georgia. While she was here she got sick. I took her to a walk in clinic. They gave her medicine and charged her $700. When we got back home her tongue started swelling up and she was having trouble breathing so I took her back. They said she had an allergic reaction to the medicine they gave her, treated her, gave her a different medicine and charged her another $1000. Luckily for her she had bought travel insurance before she left England. I had to pay for everything but within days after she returned home the insurance company sent her a check, which she then sent to me to cover the costs.