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Originally Posted by JavaBrewer
1983 my high school friend and I decided to backpack through Europe. We started the trip with a planned week visit to England and stayed with friends of my Dad. On the plane there my leg started to throb at the spot where I had (for years) a cyst nodule the size of a dime. Three or 4 days later my leg was swelling, turning yellow, and smelled rotten. I had emergency surgery to clean and pack the gaping hole in left in my leg. A couple additional visits to clean and repack and they sent me off with a bag full of dressing and antibiotics. Did not cost me a penny.
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You were very fortunate that it was not a worse outcome. And yes I used to go over to the UK and get my teeth fixed for free(I was borne there) but I don't know if that is the case now.
In the 1960's I fell down a concrete dyke in Holland and scraped my arm. It got infected and I paid quite a bit to get it treated by a doctor. Most recent was in Ireland and got an ambulance to the Emergency Dept. of a local hospital. Only charged the equivalent of about $150 US for admission and spent 6 hours in emerge....