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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for all of the good ideas on here. I’m going to see if I can find an “escort” via care.com- that and the med transport are great ideas, and this also comes up every several years when I have a colonoscopy so will be great to have ideas of what to do.

I live in MoCo and this procedure is at Johns Hopkins - so as a poster supposed, it will require someone to stick with me for almost 6 hours between driving to/from, needing to be there 1.5 hrs before the procedure, the procedure itself and the time I need to wake up. There are just very few people I’d ask to do this for me.

I know for routine colonoscopies at a local endoscopy center, they are strict about my needing not just a ride home but also someone to come up and get me - I have to give the person’s name and number when I sign in, and they won’t release me from the post-procedure area until that person has arrived. I have to assume a hospital will have the same procedures and they told me so when I scheduled the procedure.

Thanks again, everyone. 
- OP[/quote]

Please update us especially if you find names of medical transport companies.

My colonoscopy, I was allowed to get there by myself. I just had to give them the name and phone number of the person picking me up. You could consider spending the night at a hotel near the hospital, walking over, and then having someone pick you up. That cuts the number of hours down. Check and see if this is allowed. [/quote]

+1. It might be too late for this go around, but for the future there are practices in the DC area that don’t require your escort to sit with you throughout the whole procedure. Capital Digestive is one of them, I dropped off and picked up DH without waiting there. And I did similar for a friend at a different practice (I was her pick up person), her husband drove her there and then the office called me 30 minutes prior to pick up. You’d still need someone to pick you up, but this would significantly cut the amount of time that person is needed. [/quote]

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