Damn @donnymurph that sounds like quite the adventure you had. I'm assuming you're not from the United States eh? Cuz that €500 would have easily been $5,000 USD (or more) over here.
That's a win from where I come from!
Glad you made it through though - great story man!
Nope, definitely not from the US. That treatment would have been totally free in Australia or the UK. (Well, technically not totally free, since it's taxpayer funded, but still, you get the idea.)
Main thing is I lived to tell the story!