routine colonoscopy prep.

[ny biker]

+ a million on what salsa bike said. Try to find someone to give you a ride -or take a cab. If you live really far from the doctor's office, then find a hotel close by. Another idea, ask the doctor's office what other patients with that problem do. Maybe they know of a shuttle service or a place close by you could stay. My 58 year old SIL (with not officially diagnosed Aspergers) refused to go to any kind of a doctor for her whole adult life until she recently had an intestinal blockage and emergency surgery that turned out to be Stage 4 colon cancer with a very poor prognosis. The doctor said it had probably been growing for 10 years. All of her siblings have had polyps removed during colonoscopies and so have avoided what she is going through now. This is not something to mess around with. (I AM being a proselytizer!)

I appreciate your concern, but doctors don't let you go home alone in a cab, and there is no one within 300 miles who would take vacation time from their jobs to drive me anywhere.

I'm glad everything went well, Marni.

[shootingstar]

This is a tough one, NY biker. That's why I grabbed the opportunity when I was to go in for the colonoscopy the very next day after my medical prelim. interview visit. Someone cancelled...so I actually took a sick day off (Our collective agreement is that we get 90% pay not 100% pay for a sick day. I told my employer blatantly why I was off so suddenly the next day) because dearie was around to take me to and from the hospital during a work day. Otherwise it would have been another few months wait. Fortunately my boss understood since she's around my age and has Crohn's disease.

I could if desperate, call upon a distant friend locally and maybe hung around at the hospital at the cafeteria with a laptop, book etc. until she finished work to pick me up. How about that option?