When friends paid for Michelle Manuel and her wife, Rose Johnson to take a cruise to the Bahamas they never expected one of them to end up in the emergency room. The life or death situation became even more precarious when the two realized that, because they are on Medicare, the cost of the treatment wouldn’t be covered in the Bahamas.
Neither woman took their passports because the cruise line only asked for a birth certificate to travel. The hospital requested $2,000 or they weren’t going to even see the patient, so friends & family are helping out. They are stressed over the prospect of getting back home, which the pair hope to figure out with the help of the U.S. Embassy. Manuel hopes to be able to get home before Christmas.