what if you don’t have someone to drive you home from a procedure?

[Anonymous]

This is something that has concerned me, too. I had a friend scheduled to pick me up from a recent colonoscopy, but severe storms were predicted and I worried it was a long way for her to drive. She was able to get me, but I just googled medical transport in Maryland, and a bunch of places came up, like this one:

https://www.peaktransit.org/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw1emzBhB8EiwAHwZZxV9i2SRKtte98jF4wjYnGNt27ZeUucMZo5pGy8Uy51SpWFwRtQrdhRoCJKMQAvD_BwE

[Anonymous]

Could you look on Care.com or something similar for a few hours of care? If you pay enough, you'll find someone wiling to take the job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I understand your concern. I don't know but will see what you end up doing.

Me again. Some of us just have one or two people still around.

[Anonymous]

My sister found someone on Care.com for just this purpose. She's new to a city, and I'm the closest family member (7 hour drive). She said it really wasn't that bad, but she did call it the no-friends babysitter.

[Anonymous]

Take a cab.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You have to extend your circle of "people you are comfortable asking". This is why social people are more likely to have a better quality of life. What about a neighbor? Coworker?

I would never do this for anyone but family or an etremely close friend. Far too many liability issues involved. OP needs to look into at home medical care.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Get a medical escort.

Hoe do you get these?

There's this thing called Google.

[Anonymous]

If you aren't safe enough to Uber, how can you be safe enough to be dropped off by a transport?

Can you wait at the facility until you are conscious enough to take a car service?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ask your GI’s office. They likely have a few numbers for medical transportation companies.

On my instructions sheet it listed contact the info for such a service.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you aren't safe enough to Uber, how can you be safe enough to be dropped off by a transport?

Can you wait at the facility until you are conscious enough to take a car service?

Medical transport usually has a medical tech (at very least) to ride in the back with the patient.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Take a cab.

Not allowed.

[Anonymous]

NP - but they are strict about this! I am within walking distance from my procedure and asked if I could just walk home. They said yes BUT I still need someone to come in and get me. I think the medical transport company is a good idea.

[Anonymous]

I did this after surgery two summers ago. DH was on a camping trip, best friend was out of town, parents don’t live nearby, and sister was at work.

I found a medical escort through care.com. They rode home with me, and stayed for a few hours. Then everything was fine. It cost me a few hundred dollars, but I had no other choice: no one was willing/able to change plans, and my surgery was time critical.

[Anonymous]

+1 to non-emergency medical transport. Very common service. We had to arrange it for my mom a bunch of times when she needed to get to appointments but couldn't walk far enough. Some of them were just minivans. I want to say it was around $200-300 round-trip for Alexandria to Fairfax, so not a lot in the grand scheme of (medical) things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If they won't let you take an uber than they must arrange for medical transport. It's typically an ambulance without lights on. They required it for my adult son, and coded it as a medical necessity.

Lol, no. Not for an scheduled outpatient colonoscopy. It's not their responsibility, it's the patient's. If your unwilling to expand into your social circle, and unwilling to reschedule, then maybe you can hire an aide from a private duty nursing agency.