CONROE, Texas — A Conroe woman's cruise came with an unexpected cost.

Khiali Baxter had a medical emergency on board a Royal Caribbean cruise from Galveston to Mexico, and her family spent more than $13,000 out of pocket for medical care.

The Baxter family wants to warn others after going through this experience.

“Sometimes the trip of a lifetime can become the situation of a lifetime,” Craig Baxter said.

Baxter has a pile of receipts from all expenses paid for his daughter, Khiali. She was just two days and five hours into her first-ever cruise with her boyfriend when she became ill.

“I woke up, I started throwing up blood. Unfortunately, I had passed out on the ground,” Baxter said.

She was taken to the onboard emergency room, where doctors said she had internal bleeding.

An ambul

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