Retired CdA teacher headed home

When Vikki Moormann returns home tonight, she doesn’t plan to write a glowing report about how she spent her spring vacation.

Although Moormann, a retired Coeur d’Alene school teacher, did not cross an ocean when she went on vacation in Mexico last month, the void between there and home seemed greater than during her many previous travels across the pond.

“I’ll be so glad to get out of here,” Moormann, 70, said Thursday, during a phone interview from Mexico. “I’ve never wanted to leave somewhere more.”

Moormann and her sister-in-law, Patricia Rothmiller of Colfax, took a trip April 30 to Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico, to overcome the late winter doldrums. But a day later, Moormann, a diabetic, began throwing up. She was nauseous and her blood sugar shot up. Moormann said she sought medical help, believing her condition would be stabilized and after a brief stay she would be released from the hospital.

Instead, she was placed in an intensive care unit, Moormann said, charged more than $5,000 per day and was told she could not leave until her bill was paid in full/ Ralph Bartholdt , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here.

Question: Have you ever gotten sick while traveling to a foreign country?