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A young couple from Colonie will return to the Capital Region early Friday morning on a medical flight after a disastrous honeymoon in the Dominican Republic.

The newlyweds essentially got trapped, after the husband fell ill and was rushed to a hospital.

"The wedding was Saturday, the wedding was perfect, everything was wonderful," says Kathy Williams whose daughter Caitlyn married Tommy Day last weekend.

The bride and groom headed to the Dominican Republic for their honeymoon on Monday, "Tommy is such a hard working guy, he has two jobs so he's never had 5 days off in a row, they were so looking forward to it, cause he's never had a vacation," Williams says.

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But shortly after the couple arrived, Tommy got sick.

"At 3:30 in the morning she called me, said that he was so bad she didn't know what to do, he was severely sick, he was vomiting, he couldn't straighten up, he's in pain and he's rolling around," Williams recalls of the conversation she had with her daughter.

They were able to re-book their flight home for the next day but "she got out to the lobby to get him to check-out from the resort and get the cab and he collapsed on the floor."

Tommy was taken by ambulance to a local hospital in Punta Cana but the young couple had to pay thousands of dollars out-of-pocket just to get in the door.

Tommy has Crohn's Disease, it's likely his illness is related to that but doctors at that local hospital, really aren't sure. "You don't know if he has an obstruction, does he have a perforation? Is it just going to keep getting worse?" Williams says of the family's concerns.

After two days of treatment, Tommy wasn't getting better but the hospital and the US Embassy told the couple that commercial airlines will not let him on in his condition.

So, the newlyweds were essentially suck.

Stay at a foreign hospital paying thousands of dollars out-of-pocket for treatment that wasn't working or get home to specialists in the U.S. that know how to best treat Crohn's Disease.

Working from their home in Colonie, family members called their local congressman and senators, the US Embassy, the National Guard, the Governor's Office and the Red Cross and were told there was really nothing that could be done to bring the couple home.

Most U.S. insurance companies don't cover medical costs or transports of patients who fall ill outside the country. If they do, it's normally limited coverage for claims that are submitted after the fact. The family's plight has spread fast on social media with dozens of friends donating money for a medical flight home but with a price tag of $29,000, the family also had to take out a loan.

"I just wanted to give them this great honeymoon because they weren't going to be able to afford it on their own, so we thought we were going to give them a great gift, we never even thought that you're traveling outside the country and insurance would be an issue," Williams says.

The couple also used all of the money they got from their wedding guests to pay for the hospital stay in Punta Cana. A medical team is on stand-by at St. Peter's Hospital, waiting for Tommy's transport to arrive. He'll be assessed medically as soon as possible.

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