A Little Piece of Horrible News
Our Au Pair Extraordinaire recently returned to America on a student visa, to be a fulltime English student. She intended to live with us and continue to babysit our kids as her class schedule permitted.
Before classes started, she was sightseeing in Wyoming/Montana with her mother and sister, who were visiting from Taiwan, and they unfortunately got into a car accident with their rented car -- I don`t know the details. Au Pair Extraordinaire just called me to tell me her mother is still hospitalized and has just had surgery -- again, I don`t know the details, because she was whispering and in a hurry to get off the phone.
Her mother will be all right, and is expected to leave the hospital soon, which is the most important thing.
But I don`t think Au Pair Extraordinaire has any real grasp of the insurance/medical bill odyssey on which she is about to embark.
Of course I will do all I can to help her, but.... I feel powerless right now to anything much at all.
I hope everyone else out there is having a better weekend.
Before classes started, she was sightseeing in Wyoming/Montana with her mother and sister, who were visiting from Taiwan, and they unfortunately got into a car accident with their rented car -- I don`t know the details. Au Pair Extraordinaire just called me to tell me her mother is still hospitalized and has just had surgery -- again, I don`t know the details, because she was whispering and in a hurry to get off the phone.
Her mother will be all right, and is expected to leave the hospital soon, which is the most important thing.
But I don`t think Au Pair Extraordinaire has any real grasp of the insurance/medical bill odyssey on which she is about to embark.
Of course I will do all I can to help her, but.... I feel powerless right now to anything much at all.
I hope everyone else out there is having a better weekend.
posted by L. at 10:52 AM
7 Comments:
Ugh. I'm so sorry. I hope everything works out well and quickly. :(
Poor girl. What an awful thing to happen to them.
Wow. I hope she and her family are OK. That must be so overwhelming to deal with serious medical issues in a foreign place.
Oh, my. That is so not good. :-(
Oh man, I'm sorry to hear that. "Soon" is a good word to have there - I hope that her recovery is swift and smooth. Any chance they bought overseas travel insurance before they left Taiwan?
I work in that field (sadly) so let me know if you need any help.
Not good to hear no... We so often get all mighty up here in Canada but visitors would likely fare not better here than she will in the US. Hopefully, it seems worse on the first call.
Where to I get a 'Get well soon' for the mother of a childcare provider to a blogger-I-revere card?
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