CONROE, Texas — A Texas 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.

Now, 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 cruise with her boyfriend when she became sick.

“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.

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