Welcome to the Board sherman7!
Sorry to hear about your experience, but glad to hear all is now well. Since hookworm is more common in the tropics (although it can be caught in other regions as well) - a quick trip to any pharmacist here on the island would have let you know a short treatment with Mintezol would have handled the whole thing very quickly. Children are the most common effected and they are treated without incident. There is even a brand of treatment marketed to parents here in colorful little boxes with a very cartoonish spelling of WORMS right on the label.
Doctors who are unfamiliar with the ailment can misdiagnose it. But it is easily treatable and it is certainly not us$4000 but much closer to j$4000, which is about us$35.
Here is a link to the exact same topic discussed here from January of 2013.
http://negril.com/forum/showthread.p...-Larva-Migrans
