PORT RICHEY — When Ryan Naylor damage his ankle throughout kickball observe in Could, he did what many would do: He Googled it.
Ice and an Epsom salts bathtub did not work. Seems there isn’t any surefire dwelling treatment for a ruptured Achilles tendon.
Naylor, 26, did not have medical insurance. So he stayed dwelling for 36 hours till he could not take the ache anymore.
His fiance, Brittany Nolan, took him to the emergency room at HCA Florida Trinity Hospital the place medical doctors wrapped his ankle in a splint. They informed him to see a specialist. The hospital invoice and the one for surgical procedure got here out to $14,000.
The couple, who have been saving for a fall marriage ceremony, have been devastated. They’d no means of understanding that Naylor was days away from a medical emergency that