hey everybody its Bruce here with traveling with Bruce welcome to my
channel today I have a nightmare cruise vacation story to tell you about it's
all about a lady named Virginia Virginia decided she wanted to honor her late
husband he had passed away a few years ago she had him cremated and she decided
to take his ashes on a cruise of a lifetime 120 day around the world cruise
she wants to spread his ashes around the world to many of the places that they
had traveled together during their wonderful marriage the cruise line they
that she picked was biking she decided to go on a biking cruise 120 days long
on the bike King son cruise ship six star luxury you're talking about a
cruise ship with 930 passengers at full capacity all rooms are balcony 465 crew
top-notch service food is included alcohol included excursions included
Wi-Fi included Spa included it's an all-inclusive six star luxury cruise and
she paid eighty thousand dollars to go on a 120 day cruise the ship left Los
Angeles on January the fifth 2018 here's a shot of La came out of the port and
headed out into the Pacific and all started off very nicely 13 days later
though on January the 18th they ran into some serious wave action she happened to
be in an elevator going from one deck to another when the ship hit a bit of a
rogue wave causing her to jolt from one side to another and she lost her footing
she was alone at the time in the elevator she hit her face on the side of
the elevator door and fell down and hurt her hip the passengers who found her
when the doors opened immediately summoned the doctor they took her to the
infirmary and the doctor treated her for her injuries he found out though she had
a broken nose but that wasn't the worst of it she actually had hurt her hip and
he didn't know how bad it was the x-rays on board just didn't tell him what the
issue was when they got to the next port that had the hospital available to them
it was Wellington New Zealand they got here on February
the second and it was here that the hospital detected through high imaging
x-rays she had a fractured pelvis now she was staying in a room at the time on
the ship she was able to return to her ship after the hospital visit for more
rest but a week later by the 9th of February it became too all too obvious
she could not stand the pain any longer even though she was resting as much as
she could the pain was not going away she had to abandon the rest of her
cruise and she made arrangements to fly back home to Los Angeles from Sydney
Australia she returned and began to heal and begin the paperwork to claim her
insurance she did take insurance this is the good part of the story she paid
$3,000 for an $80,000 cruise for trip interruption insurance and medical
insurance and thankfully she got her paperwork done by the end of March and
in July she received a check for her medical expenses and her return flight
home but she had to fight the insurance company for her trip interruption
insurance they were only going to give her a check for $29,000 for an $80,000
cruise by the time she got some legal help she got that raise to 56,000
dollars and so she's been reimbursed 56,000 of her 80 plus her medical
expenses and she's recovering hopefully she'll be cruising again in no time and
we'll be able to honor her husband as she and intended to do and this is the
kind of thing that can happen to any of us at sea at any time on any kind of
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