@Mariah The man I speak of wound up doing best by eating what is garbage for most people. Fatty foods, no roughage. I have another friend who was diagnosed with pan ulcerative colitis, I know I’ve mentioned her before, and I think she used some sort of healthy diet to basically cure herself after years. She doesn’t believe her diagnosis was correct in the first place.
I bought full coverage insurance for a trip I took that was only several months after a very bad accident. I still had some vertigo, and pain in some places. I think it was $200 for just over a week. Or, that might have been for both my husband and me? I’m not sure.
Europe they will treat you if you’re sick, and the treatment should be decent. The third world has socialized medicine, but people with money don’t use it, so you would want to be careful. Just so you don’t feel paranoid, my Mexican husband had a gall bladder attack while living in Colombia. He got through it and it passed. It happened a second. I diagnosed him over the phone, I easily could have been wrong. The third time it was on a visit back in the states, confirmed it was his gall bladder, and he opted for surgery even though the pain passed while he was in the emergency room. He didn’t want emergency surgery in Colombia.
There is wonderful birding in America too, I’m sure you know that. In years you might have much better confidence in your health, in the meantime America is large and varied, and we are so lucky to live in such a big country.