Holiday Insurance Advice

I would doubt you'll get travel insurance to cover it.

Travel insurance works on the basis that you have coverage in a home country so that their only liability is to get you back to home country in the event of serious illness. Which is very very unlikely if you are within healthy blood parameters.

Here's a few examples from my experience:
- the country where i was dx was not the best heath system or equipment.
- i have good international health insurance yet I was expected to fly commercial with 100,000 wbc and over 2million platlets, where the risk of thombosis was significant. I did 8hr flight while half dead on hydroxycarbide and i was fine. The insurance refused medivac because i wasn't sick enough.
- dx was in july and by sept i felt i was pretty ok so i went for Sri Lanka for a month in December of that year. The doc checked my immune panel and i was fine so they said there was nothing keeping me in Europe.
- two weeks into the trip in sri lanka, i got massive eye bleeds and couldn't see through my left eye. I got a bit worried and after a month i flew back to Europe and got it checked out and eventually we got things sorted. The eye bleed would have happened had i been in sri lanka or Sussex.

I understand you might feel a little nervous, but i think you may be ober cautious. I'm guessing its a relatively short trip? Spanish healthcare is brilliant and reasonably cheap should anything happen but i would doubt that it will. I share my stories to show you that should anything go badly wrong (which i doubt it will) you will most likely be able to walk on a flight and go home and get treated.

Thanks Alastair

As soon as I have more information I will post it here. 

I saw my Haematology Consultant on 1st September who told me I've started remission with my BCR / ABL down to 0.200. So we thought we would take the plunge as a belated honeymoon. We were married on 1st October 2020 and I was diagnosed on 14 December 2020 🙄🙄 

Deni.

Thanks so much Christine 

I'll take a look at them

Much appreciated 

Deni x

Demi,

just been talking to a fellow cml member and they recommended Avanti travel insurance.

Pete.

Actually the EHIC card is one of the few things which has not changed.  If you have one, it’s still valid.  On renewal, you apply for a GHIC card now in the UK - which does the same thing as the old EHIC but for the UK “E” becomes “G”, which stands for Global (though it still is only valid in the EU…).

I’ve always taken the view with my CML that as I’m likely to have a good deal of notice before I have any CML related illness issue that stops me travelling, I don’t need cover for CML. So my travel insurance excludes that condition but covers all the usual things.  I suppose it’s conceivable that I could book something a long way in advance then find CML would stop me going but it’s never happened in 12 years.  I waited for my CML to settle down after diagnosis in 2009 but once it did, I’ve not been concerned about CML and travel insurance to cover it.  As others have said, there are some specialist insurers who will cover it and at a reasonable price I believe (and I’d go to one of them) but the typical insurers won’t or will only do so at an extortionate premium.  

Hi Deni,

Fantastic news that you are going on holiday have a brilliant time..

I was Diagnosed with CML at the end of August 2018. I was a month away from travelling alone to stay with friends for almost a month in Australia. I was cress fallen and terrified. I'd already booked my travel insurance but on informing them of my diagnose they wasn't able to change the policy it was going to cost a fortune to re insure with them. I cancelled and lost quite a bit of money. I was told about AllClear Free call UK 0800 077 777 they have around 50,000 reviews on Trustpilot. I can't praise them enough , They didn't charge me over the odds . I wouldn't book with anyone else they are brilliant to speak to over the phone and keep you updated they also send you with you a booklet that easily points out what's covered and what isn't with red and green hand signs.........   Something else I recently read in the Daily Mail. (You have to check your insurance travel policy covers you if you get pinged by NHS test and trace and are advised to self isolate. most insurance polices only cover you if its YOU who has the virus). Also people are taking the expiry date in their Passport as the expiry date but apparently its the date of issue (Spain and Italy or Greece this applies to). 

Happy Holiday 

Patch