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I’m Valerie Joy Wilson and as a professional traveler…
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…I hear a lot of stories when it comes to travel insurance.
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But, as a real-life user of Travel Guard for the last eight years…
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…it’s definitely who I recommend to use.
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I’ve had a lot of unfortunate travel experiences…
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…but fortunately…
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…they were all covered by Travel Guard.
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Travel insurance is so personally important to me.
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I was supposed to be on my dream trip in Switzerland skiing the Swiss Alps…
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…but instead, my dream trip turned into a nightmare.
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I was supposed to be jumping out of helicopter skiing powder that I had always dreamed of skiing my entire life…
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…but the universe had other plans in store for me.
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Instead, I had appendicitis…
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…and had to have my appendix taken out immediately.
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Now, imagine this…
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…I’m alone in a foreign country…
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…jetlagged…
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…I just landed…
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…and I was told I needed an emergency appendectomy.
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Check this out…
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…so…
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I woke up…
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…and then I had a really bad stabbing pain in my stomach and then it stared to move down to my appendix.
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I started throwing up…
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…I couldn’t move…
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…I couldn’t walk…
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…I literally was just like completely immobile.
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I crawled to the phone, called the front desk at my hotel and asked them to call me an ambulance.
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So, while the ambulance was on their way…
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…my first thought…
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…was actually that I was insured and I knew I didn’t have anything to worry about…
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…other than taking care of myself because I had Travel Guard and I knew that they had my back.