Louis French

In 2017, my husband and I were visiting Bogota Colombia on a Narcos TV show inspired vacation. We made a bad choice of having steak tartar at a beautiful modern restaurant. Both of us got symptoms food poisoning. Over the next several days, I became weaker and weaker, needing to rest after an hour of walking. I still had diarrhea though my husband had recovered. We finally went to a hospital clinic where I was diagnosed with giardia and sepsis. (Sepsis and Food Poisoning)

I was immediately admitted, put in a private room and the work began. They saved me but kept me for an extra day to be sure. The sepsis returned and my husband was told to send home for end-of-life documents. Fortunately, they saved me again and 7 years later, now 64, I remain healthy. However, we had to pay for the 5 days in the hospital, 12 bags of saline, private isolated room, specialist and a ton of drugs. $850.00 USD. We moved to Colombia three years ago and have had amazing and reasonably priced healthcare ever since.