Hugh Drysdale, 67, said changing his medical status was the last thing on his mind when he booked the emergency trip from Aberdeen to Florida earlier this year.
A Scots man has been left with nearly £1 million in medical bills after forgetting to update his records when he booked a last last-minute flight to help his sick granddaughter.
Now the pensioner, who also suffered a heart attack the day after his return to Scotland, has been unable to work since he fell ill and is having to pull all his pension funds together in a desperate bid to help foot the bill. The self-employed IT consultant had felt in perfect health as he helped his daughter and granddaughter on the nine-hour journey from their home in Santa Rosa Beach to St Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis.
He said: “The bill I’ve been sent so far is for $28,000. We’re still waiting for others to be sent over but the figure that she [his daughter, Laura, in America] said and that was bandied about the hospital was in the region of $1 million. But the amounts are not totalled yet.
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