Retired Coeur d'Alene teacher stuck in Mexico returning home

[TomSea]

Retired Coeur d'Alene teacher stuck in Mexico returning home
Posted: May 11, 2017 8:18 PM CST
Updated: May 11, 2017 8:18 PM CST
by Katie Chen

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho -

After many phones call, the retired Coeur d’Alene high school teacher who says she’s been stuck in a hospital in Mexico is coming home.

Vikki Moormann went down to Nuevo Vallarta for vacation with her sister-in-law Patricia on the one-year anniversary of her husband’s death. On May 1st, she was throwing up quite a bit, so they went to go see a doctor who saw that she was having a diabetic episode, and sent her to the hospital.

“She was so close to dying,” Patricia says. “She went immediately to the ICU.”

When she finally woke up, Patricia says Vikki wanted to leave to go home so she wouldn’t miss her return flight on Wednesday to Spokane. She says when they tried to leave, security officers told them they couldn’t.

Continued: http://www.khq.com/story/35410626/retired-coeur-dalene-teacher-stuck-in-mexico-returning-home

Quite a bit in the news about this, she has a large debt owed to the hospital.

[Fishrrman]

The moral of the story:
DON'T go to Mexico, whether it be for a vacation or for anything else.

[Frank Cannon]

The moral of the story:
DON'T go to Mexico, whether it be for a vacation or for anything else.

You got that right. A $35K doctor bill for what she had was a shakedown by a corrupt sewer of a country. I hope the doctors who pulled this shit run into an angry drug lord on a vendetta.

[anubias]

You got that right. A $35K doctor bill for what she had was a shakedown by a corrupt sewer of a country. I hope the doctors who pulled this shit run into an angry drug lord on a vendetta.

Unless the price has gone up in the last 20 years, the US only charges $25K to medivac a citizen out of there to the US via helicopter. 

[Taxcontrol]

If you are traveling overseas, make sure that you are covered by a medical insurance policy.  Travel insurance is cheap.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

I'd rather wake up in hell than Mexico, frankly. As if there's a difference.