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Air Ambulance Card Saves Member from Costly Recovery in Foreign Land
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (August 7, 2006) – Air Ambulance Card member Anna Frazelle is recovering at home from a broken back, after surgery in a Central American hospital. Anna Frazelle would have spent six weeks alone, recovering in Costa Rica if she had not had an Air Ambulance Card membership.

Frazelle, 46, her husband and daughters capped off a zip line tour of the rain forest by sliding down waterfalls. She hit a rock on the way down and broke her back in two places. “I came up and looked at my husband and said, ‘I can’t breathe,’” Frazelle said. She was transported to a makeshift medical hut, then, traveled 6 hours over bumpy, unpaved roads to a San Jose hospital for emergency surgery.

Meanwhile, Air Ambulance Card was dispatching a fully staffed air ambulance jet to bring Frazelle home. “Four members of the flight crew walked into my hospital room with the American flag on the arm of their flight suits and said ‘Ms. Anna Frazelle, we’ve come to take you home.’ Words can not describe how wonderful it was to see America in a foreign land,” said Frazelle. “I felt like Air Ambulance Card was a part of my family.”

Without her membership, the flight would have cost Frazelle $26,000 dollars cash, up front. “And the cost of the flight might be the least of an injured traveler’s worries,” said Sam Jackson, president of Air Ambulance Card. “Imagine the costs if someone spends six weeks recovering in a foreign hospital or hotel. The time away from work alone could be financially ruinous.”

Air Ambulance Card provides travelers with hospital-to-hospital Prepaid Air Ambulance Service domestically and abroad. The membership program offers services for a period of one year to families or individuals, and corporate accounts. Air Ambulance Card memberships are available to residents of the U.S. and Canada and cost $195 per year for individuals and $295 per year for families. For more information visit www.AirAmbulanceCard.com.

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