I've been blessed not to have been ill on a trip. But one of the physicians who worked for me traveled abroad often after his retirement. His wife had a hip replacement that came unglued in Spain and she flew home to the U.S. in tremendous pain to have it repaired.

A year later, her husband (the physician who retired from my company) had a heart attack and died aboard a plane over the Atlantic. She had a lot of problems with the legalities of transporting the body, etc.
She has stopped traveling now, but is comforted by the wonderful memories she made with her husband before his death.
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[ May 10, 2004, 04:24 PM: Message edited by: smilinize ]