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Testimonial: Member in Coma in Mexico Hospital Goes Home

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My wife, Diane, was very sick with pneumonia here in Barra de Navidad, Mexico.  I took her to a hospital in Manzanillo and shortly after she went into a coma.  The doctor said she had a massive stroke and would not come out of it, but thank God, they were wrong. A day later she […]


Testimonial: SkyMed Member Diagnosed with Pulmonary Fibrosis Flown Home to Kansas City, MO

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My dad and my husband had traveled from Kansas City to Altoona, PA for a recreational trip. Dad had pulmonary fibrosis and wasn’t feeling well on the return trip and it became apparent that he needed to get help in Evansville, Indiana. They were about seven hours away from home, so Dad was taken to a […]


Testimonial: SkyMed Member Suffers Congestive Heart Failure During Driving Trip to Alaska

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  Jim & Kathie Carter from Naperville, IL We left Chicago on April 29, 2018 to go on a planned three-month driving trip to Alaska. We met most of our group in Great Falls, Montana, and then traveled on to Cochran, Alberta for four or five days. On our last day there, Kathie had been […]


Testimonial: Member With Internal Bleeding Airlifted from Guadalajara, MEX to Los Angeles, CA

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Pepe & Concha Gurski Ajijic, Mexico We live in Ajijic, Mexico and on December 27, 2017, my husband, Pepe, had internal bleeding from a stomach ulcer and was hemorrhaging. We went to the hospital in Guadalajara and this became an extreme emergency because they did not have his blood type and he needed surgery. We […]


Testimonial: Global ETS Member with Femur Injury Evacuated from Greece to Florida

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Bob & Bette Burgfechtel The Villages, Florida Recently my wife, Bette, and I were on a Viking Mediterranean cruise from Venice to Greece. While on the ship I suffered an unusual injury to my right femur which was very painful. My wife got help immediately and shortly after that our cabin was full of people. […]


Testimonial: Member Suffers Fall & Heart Attack in Texas

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Alan & Arlene McFarland Whiting, Iowa This past February while wintering in Harlingen Texas, Alan fell and couldn’t get up. I tried to help him but I couldn’t because he’s very tall, so I called 911. The EMTs came out around midnight and helped get him off the floor, checked his vitals, and asked him […]