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So on our 8th day of our huatulco, mexico vacation, my wife and i were on the front steps of the dreams resort, waving by to friends of ours that were leaving on a bus, and my wife slipped on an unmarked, slippery step and broke her leg. She was sent by taxi to the little red cross clinic/hospital in la crucecita and she spent the nite there. An xray, showed her leg was broken diagonally(fibula and tibula) but they couldn't do anything at this little place other than monitor and give her pain killers. Options were to fly to mexico city and have it operated on there, or fly home in 2 more days and suffer with keeping her leg elevated for the 2 more days on our flight back. We dicided to fly back and the red cross sent her back to the resort and then picked us up 2 days later and took us to the airport. We paid the $19500 pesos(about $1700cdn) which covered the trauma specialist to temporary splint the leg, xray, pain killers/drugs, overnite stay, and 2 ambulance rides. We can recover the expenses through our medical insurance and alberta health care. When we landed back in canada, we took her directly to the hospital, thinking they could operate the next day, but they sent her home 6 hours later with pain killers and took many xrays, but said the swelling in her leg had to go down substantially before they could operate, so we now have a couple days wait before they operate. P.i.t.a...…
