Army veteran and Lafayette firefighter Lt. Jason Oliver took off for Cancun last week to celebrate his anniversary with his wife Maigan. Just three days into their weeklong tropical vacation, however, Jason Oliver was confined to a Mexican hospital bed rather than a poolside cabana.
Trained as paramedic firefighter, Oliver said he began to notice some troubling neurological symptoms Friday and was taken by ambulance to the local hospital for a checkup. Following a CAT scan the doctors found Jason's brain had spontaneously started to bleed.
The doctors told the couple the tests would cost $3,000 and it would cost an additional $6,000 a day for him to stay in the intensive care unit and continue to be monitored.