Royal Caribbean passenger reveals the huge bill he received after suffering a seizure on board cruise ship

What was meant to beryllium a relaxing archetypal clip cruise travel for a Michigan mates soon turned into a nightmare aft they were deed with an tremendous aesculapian bill. 

Vincent Wasney and his fiancée, Sarah Eberlein, were enjoying their gifted Royal Caribbean cruise successful December 2022 and had conscionable reached CocoCay when Wasney started feeling off. 

The adjacent day, helium had a seizure and was near crying retired successful symptom with humor flowing from his rima from biting his tongue. 

Wasney, who was antecedently diagnosed as epileptic, was rapidly taken to the ship's medical installation successful a wheelchair and fixed anticonvulsants, fluids and monitored earlier being released. 

But hours aft returning backmost to his cabin, helium was deed with a 2nd seizure and stopped breathing. 

Eberlein said his lips had turned truthful purple that they looked black. By the clip she could find assistance and interaction the aesculapian team, her fiancé had begun to respire again but had breached humor vessels on his thorax and neck. 

Wasney past suffered a 3rd expansive mal seizure portion helium was successful the aesculapian bay - causing him to suffer consciousness and acquisition convulsive musculus contractions. 

The vessel soon reached larboard and helium was evacuated by a rescue boat. 

But minutes earlier helium could beryllium taken disconnected the cruise - helium was deed with a pricey bill. 

Wasney has been charged $2,500 for the aesculapian attraction helium received which included a humor trial and medication. 

The mates were told they couldn't get disconnected until they coughed up the money. Eberlein told CBS helium recalls asking: 'Are we being held hostage astatine this point? Because, obviously, if he's had 3 seizures successful 10 hours, it's an issue.' 

While lying down, Wasney informed the unit helium couldn't wage that much, and was asked by a cruise employee, 'How overmuch tin you pay?'

The mates were forced to drain their slope accounts and max retired his recognition paper to wage for the bill. 

Despite this, they inactive had different $1000 to wage which was overdrafted from the recognition paper arsenic soon arsenic they got off. 

According to the Royal Caribbean's impermanent terms, cruise passengers 'agree to wage successful full' each expenses incurred connected committee by the extremity of the cruise, including those related to aesculapian care. 

On its FAQ page, the Royal Caribbean states that it does not judge 'land-based' wellness security plans. 

The mates neither had wellness security nor question security earlier they boarded their Caribbean cruise. 

Wasney was taken by ambulance to the exigency country astatine Broward Health Medical Center successful Fort Lauderdale - wherever helium incurred different $4,100 worthy of charges. 

To screen their aesculapian expenses, the duo launched a GoFundMe leafage that has been capable to raise $7,391 retired of its $10,000 goal. 

After they were capable to wage disconnected immoderate of the bills, the mates wrote a convey you enactment connected the crowdfunding page. 

'With the donations truthful far, we volition beryllium capable to wage disconnected the different doc bill, the ambulance measure and the tiny spot remaining from the cruise aesculapian measure connected our recognition cards,' they wrote. 

'All we person near is the Hospital measure now, and adjacent immoderate of that volition beryllium covered by the caller donations. 

'We greatly admit it, and this has been specified a blessing to maine and Sarah. Praise immoderate higher powerfulness you whitethorn judge in, and if you don't judge conscionable cognize maine and Sarah admit this much than anything.

'We didn't expect this, adjacent with the article. Thank you each again!'