A dream trip to Mexico for two Oklahoma college students quickly turned into a nightmare when they fell seriously ill after doctors feared the water they drank at a resort bar might have been laced with a dangerous substance.
Kaylee Pitsche and Zara Hull reportedly arrived in Cancun last Thursday to enjoy a planned getaway with a group of friends. Here.
Their trip started off well, but on Friday she and her boyfriend went to the resort’s pool bar and both ordered a glass of water.
According to the media, the two students from Oklahoma Christian University suddenly appeared dazed and with their heads down.
“Their last memory was asking for a glass of water,” Stephanie Snyder, the mother of Halle’s boyfriend, told the outlet. “They had their heads down and slumped over the counter.”
Snyder claimed Hull began experiencing “convulsive movements” shortly after drinking the water.
Unable to walk, the two university students were wheeled back to their rooms in wheelchairs.
“We were outside and we couldn’t walk, talk, anything,” Pitse said. News 9.
Pitsé recalled that it “hurt” to open her eyes the next morning and she was “so nauseous” she couldn’t move.
Meanwhile, Hal suffers from stomach cramps and is rushed to a hospital in Mexico.
“My stomach started cramping so I called 911,” Hull told News 9.
However, things went from bad to worse when the hospital she was taken to demanded a $10,000 deposit before treatment could begin.
As the attacks continued, the young college student had no choice but to pay up, she said.
“I’m really scared. Sometimes I wonder if I’ll ever get out of this,” Hull said.
Doctors in Mexico intubated Hal, who then underwent a CT scan and was admitted to the intensive care unit, according to a GoFundMe set up to raise medical expenses.
At the same time, her boyfriend, Jake Snyder, paid $200 to stay overnight in a hospital room.
“The hospital wasn’t treating her. They were giving her loads of drugs to keep her sedated,” Snyder said. Claimed in a Facebook post on Monday.
“The doctors intubated her and told Jake he was ‘sedating’ her for an MRI. There was no reason to sedate her, much less intubate her. We knew we had to get her rescued and back to the U.S..”
The foreign hospital then demanded the Oklahoma college student pay $25,000 to continue his treatment and $5,000 to discharge him by Sunday morning.
Hal’s family and friends contacted the U.S. Embassy, urging them to immediately bring Hal back to the United States for proper medical treatment.
“We contacted the U.S. Embassy but they told us there was nothing they could do to help as long as she was in the hospital. So they gave us contact information for people who could help get her out of the hospital and a medical flight to contact,” Snyder said. I have written.
Hull’s family had to pay a $26,000 bond to have her medically transported to the United States.
“The cost of evacuation right now is about $60,000,” Hal’s mother, Riley Works, told News 9.
Fortunately, a generous friend of the Hull family covered the medical expenses and the young college student was rushed to a Dallas hospital on Saturday night.
Pitze and her boyfriend arrived in Dallas on Monday and immediately rushed to check on their best friend at the hospital.
They were both safely returned to the United States, but it remains a mystery to doctors why the two girls became so ill.
“We don’t have many answers, we don’t know much. We don’t know what she was given at the hospital there, what she was given at the resort,” Halle’s mother told the outlet.
According to News 9, US doctors suspect that Hull and Pitse’s water may have been laced with synthetic fentanyl.
“There is no other explanation for this. It’s impossible for two women to fall at the same time,” Pitsche told the media.
Hal said he felt “so blessed” by the love and support he received while he was suffering from a mysterious illness overseas.
She is still recovering in hospital and still “doesn’t remember” what happened after she drank alcohol at the resort, Snyder said. I have written In Tuesday’s update.
As he searches for answers, Pitse warns people to be careful when traveling.
“This could happen to anyone,” she told the outlet.
