Ah shit, here we go.
I was about 8-9 years old and when on holiday in France I got acute appendicitis.
So we were on a campsite ish (More like glamping) and went to the front desk to get a French translator for the hospital (this is ~2008 no google translate).
When we arrived it was about evening and the real doctor already went home. When we went inside the room to get examined our translator flat out just passed out as she could not handle hospital smell (like wtf why would u go with then?!?!). The "night" doctor examined me and determined it wasn't too bad and they could look tomorrow. I was a very active/moving kid and I was laying still from the pain not moving at all which was a very bad sign, but try that in a foreign language, u kinda just didnt speak much beyond "can I have a baguette please" so u can't communicate that a 9 year old is in insane pain if it is not crying.
I was placed in a room, but first a got a nurse that was still in very early stages of her career (like student) and tried to put a drip in. She fucked up so bad I felt it through the local anesthesia they put on. Anyway, that evening they drove me twice in an ambulance to another location in an attempt to find a room for kids so I could be operated the next day. I was put in a room with my mom and we slept the night.
The next morning at 7 am, my mom went to the toilet and at that exact moment the doctor came by and I was RUSHED into surgery due to the severity of the case that never should have been left until the morning. My mom wasn't there when I was rushed into the surgery room and I was in a room full of French doctors and nurses and I got put under anesthesia in a foreign language and I never ever had been under before, it felt like I just couldn't breath anymore at one point and I only saw my mom when I came out of surgery.
You would expect I would go home the day after, but nope! They tried giving me powder antibiotic that I just barfed from instantly and we could not communicate that to the nurses due to the language barrier and had to wait another full day until an English speaking doctor came that day and we could explain it to and get liquid antibiotics. Finally I was able to return to the campsite and "enjoy" the rest of my holiday.
Once back in the Netherlands, we found out they fucked something up with the wire to close the wounds as they didn't dissolve properly and infected causing me to have another level of pain and they had to forcefully pull out the wire out of the infected tissue.
Later on I learned usually they make an incision of about 1-2cm to remove an appendicitis but mine was about 4-5 cm as what I assume is due to the possibility of it already having ruptured or was about to rupture. Due to me being 9 years old at the time the scar grew when i got older and now is about twice the size, meaning about 8-10cm.
tl:dr So yeah, France is a beautiful country with amazing landscapes but their medical centers suck ass (back then), would not recommend to go to the hospital there.
Also I am surprised I did not get PTSD for hospitals from it.