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Originally Posted by bossku69
thats messed up how they are making come all the way out there for just an appointment.
can someone drive you there? if i lived in the area or at least state i would take you, but dont think i will make it in time from PA even if i left now  |
Someone will be taking me. That sort of is not really the point. See I am supposed to be laying down prone and not sit up for more than 15 minutes a day. I am supposed to be on gurney transport even to my local doctor appointments, which I have one today. They will show up with a gurney, transfer me to it, and I will remain laying down while they drive me to the appointment and take me back home. That is medical transport.
Issue is since my asshole oncologist who is my referring doctor to Stanford will not write a prescription for medical transport to my appointment at Stanford, because his social worker or whatever she was said she never heard of medical transport requiring such things before. Means I can not arrange for medical transport to Stanford. I.E. no prescription = no ability to hire medical transportation even with cash.
Which if anyone is curious such transport by "ambulance" type vehicle is 5,700.00 each direction. Plane flight or helicopter transport is 29,000 each direction and does not include extra fee for transportation from airport/pad to appointment. Figures just rounded off.
So what I need to do is make it that long sitting up, risking a bleed out with my anemia level. Here is the averages - The normal range of hemoglobin is approximately 14 to 17 grams per deciliter for men and 12 to 16 grams per deciliter for women. Mine is currently sitting at 5.4 as of last test almost a week ago. So it is probably between 5.2 to 5.8 right now if it went up any. That indicates how many red blood cells you have. So I am below half empty - for most they would pass out at my levels.
The above does not take into account the pain levels I will have to endure. I am already in chronic pain, plus the wound pain - which I would be sitting on. Currently my pain meds barely put a dent in it. I often am covered in sweat or teared up most ours of the day from the pain. Yes pain alone can kill people. I am hoping my doctor I am seeing today will at least give me some stronger liquid meds I can take with me. I would not expect him to write a script for the transport since he would be risking his license as he is not the referring doctor, but he can at least work on the pain issue.
I was thinking of maybe having the wife take the pickup and having a bed made in the back. Aside from the cold, I thought it was a good idea until we thought about the vibration. Same vibration would happen on the floor of a van as well. We may end up taking the van we have and trying to rig a bed in that with straps across the seats in the back. We will figure it out. Just is going to be a very trying journey no matter how it goes, there is a reason though they take me places via gurney with two people in the van. One having to be well trained as an EMT of course.
Fuck me how do all my replies end up so long.