An Okotoks woman is calling her recent vacation a “$100,000 trip” after she suffered a health emergency and was hospitalized over 8,000 km away from home in southern Alberta.

Dione Amundson and her son Peyton were in Japan for a two-week trip this past July.

However, on day four she said she felt something ‘pop’ inside of her while she was in the washroom.

“Wasn’t sure what was going on, just that it was uncomfortable and it continued to get more and more uncomfortable,” says Dione.

Dione was taken to a nearby hospital where she was told that she had suffered a perforated intestine, infection had set in and she was septic.

Japanese doctors put her on an antibiotic treatment for a few days to treat the sepsis, but her son says it wasn’t getting any better.

“Still didn’t see 100 per ce

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