7 days in Jamaican hospital with fractured vertebrae

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Cliff Jumping: I tried cliff-jumping at Rick's Cafe. My roommate had already jumped and was fine and swimming in the beautiful blue water below.
I jumped off, exactly as how the instructor told me, but didn't land correctly, and immediately when I hit the water, I felt a surge of pain like I had never felt before in my spine. My back was arched forward at the time and I could not move it at all. I doggy-paddled to the edge but couldn’t move my back at all for a few minutes. Then I had to lie completely flat because my back couldn’t support me at all. I could not stand up and was in excruciating pain. Eventually two tourists helped me up the stairs after I attempted to crawl. I didn’t think anything was wrong but after trying to stand or sit, I knew something was wrong. I was taken to get x-rays and found that I had fractures in my thoracic spine and needed to be ambulanced to a hospital two hours away where I would get a CT scan to see if the fracture was stable. If unstable, there was a high risk that a piece of the bone could pierce the spinal cord and leave me paralyzed. After a very uncomfortable ride and still with no pain medication, I arrived at MoBay Hope Medical Center where I got a CT scan and afterward was left in the hallway of the hospital in pain because to stay at the hospital you needed to pay a U.S. $1,500 deposit and U.S. $300 per night, and I hadn’t carried any forms of payment with me. I was then transferred to Cornwall Regional Hospital, the public hospital. Again, I was left in a hallway with no pain medication and on a backboard for over nine hours. It was horrible. I was supposed to start school two days after that accident, but after seven days in that hospital had to withdraw from all my classes. Now I’m working to pay all the costs, which are over three times the local Jamaican rate for medical care. I would NEVER jump.