Disney Disaster - Reclaiming Medical costs help please!

Donnie

Contrary to your 'butter wouldn't melt' reaction, my initial post was concern rather than for the financial.

If the OP did not want us to comment on the circumstances, why did she include them?

Why not keep it to a simple factual question?

Why elicit the sympathy vote without revealing the truthful reasons behind the missing travel insurance/EHIC Card?

Any feeling of a child being in danger will provoke a gut reaction.

The OP just wants to have her cake and eat it too.

If she doesn't want to read other opinions, she should refrain from posting here or just stick to asking questions in a hypothetical manner.

No one called her a bad mother, that was her own inference.

If she hadn't mentioned the child, I'm sure that reaction here may have been slightly less critical.

So, let's not try to score points here. My point is as valid as yours(so no need to drag it on).

Go and have a lie down. I'm off to do my training.

Look on the bright side, with in excess of 1400 viewings there are going to be fewer people 'forgetting' their Travel Insurance and EHIC card.

Donnie

reme-bod wrote: »

More to the point where is your financial advice? I've suggested phoning DWP to see if a retrospective claim can be made (see post #29) - does that not equate to some form of financial advice - even to your small blinkered mind? I have also PM'd the OP to give a detailed description of how I went about it. I suppose you will want evidence of that too?

I don't recall you being elected as the voice of the people to whom everyone must bow down and agree with unreservedley. You're guessing I'm another lurker sticking a useless unwanted oar in... well I haven't seen too much useful advice coming from you whereas others on this thread have actually contributed. Try not to guess too much and stick to what is factual.

And yes, you're right. It certainly is the idiot season. What's it like in pole position?

I'm bored of this now.

Do you mean that you were one of those 'people' who neglected to travel with Insurance and E111?

Birds of a feather, eh? :rolleyes:

reme-bod

Some people on this thread are really getting rather tiresome now.

I'm sure the OP included the details of her child so as to paint a full picture. If she hadn't have included all the details as she saw fit then I'm sure someone (no names mentioned) would have been quick to chastise her about not supplying enough info to warrant a legitimate response.

I didn't realise she was trying to elicit a sympathy vote. I must have missed her post that said "please feel sorry for me because my child got sick and I was in a hotel in Disneyland. Oh did I mention I had my child with me... he/she got sick. Can someone strike up a woeful tune on the violin to set the mood before ask for financial advice on how to reclaim prescription charges for my child... who got sick?"

The OP just wants to have her cake and eat it too.

What on earth are you talking about? What is the relevance of this comment? Is it just another personal attack on the OP or have I got something wrong again?

No... wait a minute... I understand now...

I don't know if the OP eats cake... maybe there's a clause in her non-existing policy stating that eating cake whilst having it will lead to her non-cover being cancelled and all rights as a 'human being' revoked in accordance with the laws of cakedom... or something equally ridiculous.

:mad: Grrrr..... How could you be so irresponsible, especially when you have a three year old child in tow?

Thinking that you had insurance simply doesn't wash.

Let that be a lesson to you. Just thank goodness that all is well with your family.

I think the OP knows by now they were a plank.

I think the OP has brought this situation on herself. Firstly for her 'mistake' in not noticing that she had no insurance.

I fear that it is she that is doing the 'overegging'.

If people are so concerned with keeping the questions factual perhaps they should ensure that their answers are also factual and not opinionated or judgemental.

Do you mean that you were one of those 'people' who neglected to travel with Insurance and E111?

Please explain the quote marks around the word 'people'. Would this imply I'm only a pretend person?... monkey in a suit, carrying a briefcase and wearing a false nose and moustache?

Not that my circumstances have any bearing or relevance to this thread, I'll just add that my lack of E111 at the time was because of an administrative error from my employer at the time ( I was serving in Germany with the Army and a clerk didn't file the necessary forms thinking an E111 wasn't needed). Incidentally I was insured but it played no part in this aspect of the thread i.e trying to reclaim expenses for prescribed drugs.

Birds of a feather, eh? :rolleyes:

Well here you must be referring to either

a. An interest in local ornithology and their migratory habits.

b. A particularly poor sitcom from the 80s/90s starring Pauline Quirk and Linda Robson (Opinionated, I know... sorry)

c. Reference to a proverb.

If you are referring to the latter then I am merely a 'person' who has been in a similar situation and I'm able to draw on some experience. I also know how frustrating it can be when people 'much more intelligent' than me wag their finger in my face and say "I told you so" or "you should have known better" etc.

Go and have a lie down. I'm off to do my training.

Thank you for your advise on how to relax, Dr Donnie. I will be sure to post financial questions on the "medical relaxation by lying down in accordance with Donnie's instructions" forum... just for relevance.

Similarly, please tell us more about your training... just for more relevance.

abijanzo

Thankyou Remebod for your humourous posts.

I think they highlight how ridiculous and completely unhelpful some comments in this thread have been.

Just to clarify a point - I am not claiming against Disney nor a Travel Agent, I am merely claiming a portion of my medical expenses back from the UK Government.

We suffered with the Norovirus bug which we have pinpointed was contracted from a relative before we left the UK, the symptoms however only showed a couple of hours after arriving at the Disney Resort in France.

I suppose some would call me completely irresponsible (and no doubt illustrate their rage with an emoticon just to make themselves appear all cutesy in an attempt veil their harsh, uncharitable, untruthful and atagonistic comments :mad:) for putting my child in a position where she could contract a virus!

For the record the medical help we received in France was second to none and probably much better than we would have received here in the UK where I understand people with this bug are being advised to stay away from Surgeries and Medical Centres and take paracetamol.

I will say it 1 final time: I thought I had included the Insurance - it was an honest mistake. I would not spend £1,000 to go to a resort and then skimp the 20 quid or whatever it was on insurance for God's sake!

Donnie Darko I would love to meet you in person if only to use a few words that would not be acceptable on a public forum to describe what I think of your comments.

You Sir are a TWIT (and I cannot spell - work it out).

I shall not be reading this thread any further so Donnie you need not respond to this, unless of course you are still trying to justify your silly, unhelpful comments in the name of child protection...or was that in the name of self righteousness?

You mention your 'gut reaction' to anything where children are involved...

I guess you haven't encountered many Mothers 'gut reactions' when accused of not loving their children. I am guessing you are not yourself a parent.
One day you may understand.

(Does this make my post acceptable now no matter what I say?)

In your words Donnie 'It matters not'.

yellowmonkey

Donnie wrote: »

So where was your financial advice? I'm guessing that you are just another lurker sticking a useless unwanted oar in.

It must be the idiot season. :rolleyes:

I hope you are not refering to me with that comment.

Donnie

Oh dear...the keyboard warriors are out in force today.

I note that even though abi-earache has seen fit to give us the benefit of her opinion, in more than one thousands words, she still hasn't gotten around to letting us know how she managed to accidentally not have insurance or an EHIC card.

For me, the height of irresponsibility with a child in tow.

She is a tiresome boorish woman who doth protest too much and were it not for the other people involved, I would say that she got her *just desserts*.

Since that tiresome, boorish woman isn't going to be reading this thread anymore. I won't have the benefit of reading any more of her half-truths.

As we say in Thailand..... Som nom na.

*That's the meaning of Som nom na.

Donnie

reme-bod wrote: »

Some people on this thread are really getting rather ......

That's about as far as I got with your post.

As you have clearly demonstrated your intelligence by going Skiing without the recommended documents, you post has as much credibility as a donkey's heehaw.

reme-bod

Keyboard warrior alert. I'm sitting here dressed in armour with a battleaxe by my side (my wife).

Thank you Dronie for your oh-so-valueable input again.

Had you had the wherewithal to read further into my last post you would have seen the circumstances of me being without an E111. Military exercises don't come under the same remit as civilian package deals and as such have different documentation requirements. This was merely an oversight of my admin clerk at the time. Enough of that.

Of course you will now prove to be the ever credible contributor to this post by advising the OP as to how to claim money back... after all you seem to be the font of all knowledge, the oracle, the sayer of sooths, and living in Thailand you must be an expert on all things to do with child protection, human rights, international law and other things not really suitable for these fora.

So go on then, instead of criticising, judging, opining and vilifying try to do something constructive and offer useful advise as so many others on this thread have done. If you are too embarrassed to do this in public I'm sure she will appeciate your words of wisdom via PM.

If you are not capable of that simple thing then shut up.

As they say in Yorkshire "Every word you say helps confirm my opinion of you"

Donnie

Again, I didn't bother to read your post, but I'm sure it said something like: "blah, blah, blah.... self importance, blah, blah, blah".

I have my opinion and you have yours. I'm happy to leave it at that.

reme-bod

I've just had a PM from Abijanzo saying that you have apologised to her for causing any offence. I must say that's very magnanamous of you and therefore I retract some of my earlier opinions about you.
I guess you're more reserved than I gave you credit for because I would have thought you'd have made an issue out of a public apology... so I apologise to you for misjudging your character.

Although you didn't make it public knowledge that you have been big enough to step back and see it from others' point of view, I think it only fair to let the rest of the forum know your modest gesture. It takes a big man to see his own faults and face up to them. Well done you. (I know mine and I'm only too ready to admit to them - just ask ).
:beer:

Let's draw a line under this and put it down to differences of opinion. Thank you for sharing yours with us... the world is a much richer place because of them.

I'm sure the OP will have enough information in the last 60+ posts to glean the information she requested.