Mrs Airman Gabber broke both ankles whilst on holiday in Spain.
The amount of stress I went through sorting out new hotels and travel arrangements with the insurance company drove me to Sambuca - it was the only way I could get to sleep at night.

We had to wait 12 hours until the insurance company agreed to authorise the operation but after 3 days I managed to spring her from the (fortunately private) hospital where she'd had one ankle pinned - they wanted to keep her in until she was fit to fly.

For the next 3 days I ended up wheeling her around between bars and restaurants until she was declared fit to fly home. Yes we were the poor sods you look on with pity on holiday. After being hoisted into the cabin in some glorified cherry picker she had an entire row of seats to herself. At the airport there was an ambulance waiting to take us home.

The only upside - It was in the last 3 days of the holiday and because she wasn't fit to fly we got to stay an extra 3 days courtesy of Nat West Insurance and one of the hotels was so fancy the courtesy cars were a Mercedes McLaren SLR 722 and a Maybach.

Pro Tip: Always get the best holiday insurance you can. If we hadn't had the Banks insurance and emergency assistance I don't know what I'd have done.

Here's the 'after' X-Ray:



Here's a photo of the medication she was on, including an injection she had to administer to herself every morning:


( Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 9:35, 15 replies)

any chance you can make that picture a bit bigger?

( The Doveston haunted by the memory of his own amnesia, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 9:37, closed)

If you paste it into MS Paint you can make it bigger yourself I think
Are you some sort of x-ray injury fetishist?
( Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 9:43, closed)

The insurance company drove you to Sambuca?
I hear it's lovely there this time of year.
/gets coat.

Shame about the woes, but glad the insurance covered it all
( The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 9:47, closed)

Unfortunately they didn't cover our bar bill.
But I dread to imagine what it would have cost if we'd have to shell out ourselves.
( Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 10:16, closed)

how the fuck did she manage to break both ankles?

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:07, closed)

World cup final was about to start and the bar we were sat outside was getting full of football hoons...
...so I dragged her for a sunday lunch in a quiet bar.

She slipped off her stupid heeled sandals and bounced down 1 or 2 steps into a heap. She wrapped it in ice and I had my meal.

Afterwards we walked 30 or 40 metres back towards the apartment before she collapsed as her right ankle 'felt all floppy'. We don't know whether the 2nd bone snapped as she was walking on it but I'm guessing that's what happened.

None of it hurt though - she's not got much sensitivity in her ankles due to previous surgery on a slipped disk in her lower back.

Fortunately the left leg was much less severe but it still a cast.

The floor she was on in hospital was full of women with broken feet/ankles - the pavements over there can be treacherous. This combined with inappropriate footwear/booze keeps the hospitals busy. To do 2 is rare as a lot of the nurses were pointing and saying 'both!'
( Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:27, closed)

i know what the pavements there are like
especially in the mornings. that's one of the reasons i never take heels with me when i go.
another reason is i just can't walk in the cunting things!
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:46, closed)

Yeah, it's great that you want to publish photos of your wife on the internet but this isn't that kind of website.
cheers
( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:32, closed)

Bet you haven't seen inside an amateur wife since you visited speculum.com eh?

( Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:35, closed)

I concur on the insurance
Took my family to Florida last year. One kid began vomiting and became severely dehydrated. When it became clear it wasn't going to get better and could potentially become very worse we took him to a hospital where he was stuck on a drip. In the meantime they did some kind of catscan. In the end after 3 drips he recovered sufficiently he could be discharged. Total cost of about 5 hours in hospital, 3 saline bags and scan?

$10,000. WHAT THE FUCK? The scan represented about $9000 of that and I'm sure is a nice money spinner for them. Fortunately I only had to stump up 10% on the credit card, and I had all the insurance policies in the phone thanks to drop box. Insurance finally paid up and we were down about $150 all told.

Get insurance. These hospitals will screw you and screw you and screw you. Even in the EU, apparently some Spanish hospitals are refusing treatment without insurance even though they are meant to provide reciprocal care. And get an EHIC card to prove you are entitled to the care through the EU.
(MagicMoose, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 19:43, closed)