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Back from Casualty
Bob_the_Saver
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Further to yesterdays post where the OP was suggesting holiday insurance was NOT a good idea.
Just back from foreign casualty dept after Mrs Bob the Saver had a freak accident with a gurkin needing several stitches. You see you never know what life has in store.
Anyway she arrived at the desk waving her EHIC card and her organ donor card in the good hand, the latter being a little melodramatic in my opinion.
€130 later (less 80% because she had her EHIC with her) we trundled off to the pharmacy to spend a load more. So far the cost won't reach the excess on our policy but imagine the bill for anything more that a gurkin related misadventure.
At least we could park just outside casualty (for free) and only had to wait 4 minutes for excellent treatment.
We're already in line for a €144 refund from the breakdown insurance after having a puncture on the motorway.
I'm please to say Mrs Bob the Saver has now recovered enough
to make dinner but I can't wait for the injection to wear off!!
Just back from foreign casualty dept after Mrs Bob the Saver had a freak accident with a gurkin needing several stitches. You see you never know what life has in store.
Anyway she arrived at the desk waving her EHIC card and her organ donor card in the good hand, the latter being a little melodramatic in my opinion.
€130 later (less 80% because she had her EHIC with her) we trundled off to the pharmacy to spend a load more. So far the cost won't reach the excess on our policy but imagine the bill for anything more that a gurkin related misadventure.
At least we could park just outside casualty (for free) and only had to wait 4 minutes for excellent treatment.
We're already in line for a €144 refund from the breakdown insurance after having a puncture on the motorway.
I'm please to say Mrs Bob the Saver has now recovered enough
to make dinner but I can't wait for the injection to wear off!!
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Sorry to hear about the accident but I'm intrigued - tell us how it happened?Bob_the_Saver wrote: »Just back from foreign casualty dept after Mrs Bob the Saver had a freak accident with a gurkin needing several stitches. You see you never know what life has in store.
The NHS will provided emergency treatment to all foc - it's not known as the World Health Service for nothing,Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!
"No man is worth, crawling on the earth"- adapted from Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio
Hope is not a strategy
...A child is for life, not just 18 years....Don't get me started on the NHS, because you won't win...I love chaz-ing!0 -
Can't echo the original poster enough on this- I never thought it would happen to me - till I was hit by a car on holiday in Dubai many years ago...
4 weeks in hospital there and a stretcher case back to the UK was pretty expensive,I can tell you...shame I had my travel insurance form in my handbag waiting to go in the post....Debt-free...and staying that way...0 -
VfM4meplse wrote: »Sorry to hear about the accident but I'm intrigued - tell us how it happened?
Pruning and missed.0 -
And imagine how that much would have cost you in the US - you'd have already been £1000+
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come on Bob, 'fess up, what was she doing with the gherkin then.?make the most of it, we are only here for the weekend.
and we will never, ever return.0 -
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What a pickle :rotfl:For some reason I'm reminded of the fat Scottish bloke and his wife in BenidormBob_the_Saver wrote: »Further to yesterdays post where the OP was suggesting holiday insurance was NOT a good idea.
Just back from foreign casualty dept after Mrs Bob the Saver had a freak accident with a gurkin needing several stitches. You see you never know what life has in store.
Anyway she arrived at the desk waving her EHIC card and her organ donor card in the good hand, the latter card being a little melodramatic in my opinion.
130 euro's later (less 80% because she had her EHIC with her) we trundled off to the pharmacy to spend a load more. So far the cost won't reach the excess on our policy but imagine the bill for anything more that a gurkin related misadventure.
At least we could park just outside casualty (for free) and only had to wait 4 minutes for treatment.
We're already in line for 144 Euro's refund from the breakdown insurance after having a puncture on the motorway.
I'm please to say Mrs Bob the Saver has now recovered enough
to make dinner but I can't wait for the injection to wear off!!
Hope she's recovered from, er, whatever happened!!0 -
My mum died in France on holiday, goodness knows how much it would have cost to get her back home if she didn't have insurance!! They paid for me to go to her when she was taken ill, my hotel room while she was in hospital and to bring her body home, inc the coffin and the undertaker to collect her from Gatwick.0
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How sad, that must have been an awful time in yours and your familys life.make the most of it, we are only here for the weekend.
and we will never, ever return.0 -
Bad news, the gurkin didn't make it and worse news Mrs Bob the Savers finger is starting to throb - I'm off to my workshop............0
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