Warning To All Travellers
Knowing what I do now, I wish I’d have read a post about medical insurance abroad sooner. But no, instead I was bogged down with work and looking at bad credit credit cards and monitoring who was eligible for even more credit. Had I researched medical insurance properly before I went to Spain, I am sure I’d be a lot better off now.
I was just walking down one of those typically bumpy Spanish streets when the accident happened. I was fine one moment, then the next thing I knew I was on the ground with a rather large bone sticking out of my shin. I remember laughing because it looked comical. Then I stopped laughing, the pain smacked me around the chops and I was sick everywhere.
In hospital it was all sorted quite soon and I was soon sent home. I thought that the papers I had signed meant I was covered and wouldn’t have to pay for more than a night’s board and breakfast.
How I was wrong! Instead, the contract said that I owed the hospital about 5 thousand Euros. I’d only been in Spain 2 days and then I was out for the count. Some cheap holiday that turned out to be…
Always read the contract you have with your health insurer is what I am saying. It may seem trivial while you’re all excited and thinking it can’t happen to me, but believe me it won’t when you’re surrounded by Spaniards with a jagged white bone sticking out of your leg…
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