They will always say "no. It's a liability issue for them. You're being sent home potentially still high from the drugs they gave you. Taxis and Ubers are strangers that might take advantage, so the medical staff says no. If they say yes and something happens, they could be liable.

Also, if you're really out of it, someone you know who can stay with you until you recover/sober up is advisable, just in case.

In reply to Piestar (msg # 1699):

I'm from the U.k. so I'm not sure what its like in other countries but in some cases you can request the hospital provide transport if you don't have any yourself. Have you asked for that?

In reply to Starchaser (msg # 1706):

Ambulances in the US are private companies, and they would charge two thousand dollars to take you across the street. I know, they did it to me, once. Literally across the street.

In reply to Piestar (msg # 1699):

My mother used to have those done regularly.  As her usual transport/sitter, I agree you should not be trusting in a stranger.  You need someone to drive you, make sure you get into your home safely, and stay with you for a few hours because even if they put you to bed and you go to sleep, you may wake up and try to navigate before the drugs all wear off.  As long as there is someone trustworthy with you, it's not a big deal, but it could be dangerous if you were alone, or with someone who might take advantage.

Get to know your neighbors?

In reply to vads (msg # 1709):

Depends on the neighbors. Mine aren't exactly the friendly type, for example :D

Explain the situation to your doctor, and ask if they'll accept you signing an AMA (against medical advice) waiver.  If not, ask them if you're better off doing the procedure under the circumstances you can do it, or not do it at all.

Yes, you'd probably be better off having someone there with you that you know and trust - but that's not always possible or practical.

And not everyone is Picard who can 'make it so'.  :-)

In most places there are medically insured 'taxi' services. I used one to get home from the hospital last month as I did not have a ride otherwise.
I suggest looking in to one of those services, ask the people at the local hospital about them. They usually have a list of them that could help.

Another option, although possibly expensive, is to hire a private ambulance service /ride.  Here that could cost you $300 dollars.

The problem with hiring a private ambulance company to take you is we only do so if the doctor determines such a move is medically necessary. The medical taxi's would be your best bet, as it sounds like that's more their alley. (I work for a private ambulance company, hence the knowledge base.)

Your best bet is going to be to explain the situation to the doctor and see what options are available. I would think any that care about their patient's health would be able to have some resources for such things. And I could be wrong. In your area, private ambulances might do what jdtucker suggested, but still... explain the situation to your doctor and see what they have available is going to be the best way, I think.

I hope it can get sorted out and you get the care you need!

Thanks. I am going to ask if it is possible to have the procedure without anesthetic, it is the only thing I can think of that meets all the required criteria.

Had one last year, not sure I would consider it without drugs...I don't think it would extraordinarily painful, but definitely uncomfortable.

Will they let you stay at the hospital until the anaesthetic has worn off?

I got the impression from the doctor that that was not really an option. I will ask though.

In a moment of weakness for our children's' wants and desires, my spouse bought a pack of living miniature chimpanzees. How's that, you say? Where does one find a miniature pack of chimpanzees?  Ahhh... at the pest store, of course.

There are now five, five, I tell you, parakeets. Adorable little birds that make beautiful, ear screeching, brain piercing chimpanzee howls. They are beautiful little birds, truly. But they make my work-from-home time unbearable.

In reply to Sithraider (msg # 1718):

Comfort my friend. Headphones and music may be in your future.

Or a cat and an open cage door

LOL

I hope she keeps her desire for avian acquaintances in check. I knew a couple once, where the wife got so devoted to her love of birds, they took over the entire living room, hundreds in cages, feathers and fluff all over the house, including in the food. I probably should have called CPS, the birds clearly outranked the kids in that woman's life. She openly hated her step-daughter, but the dad was one of those who put wife over kids. Sad... I had to quit being friends with them.

Look at it this way, you've got an early warning system in place for gas leaks. <.<

LOLZ, you guys is killin me.

In reply to Greymist (msg # 1716):

It takes quite a few hours before the drugs are totally gone.

The over reaction thread. It keeps popping responses and the red annoys me so I have to keep going in and hitting "mark all as read". Not a big deal but come to a conclusion already.

^^ Happens a lot when you check in on multiple devices (phone, work computer, home computer, etc).

Something about the cookies being different.  One thing I have found fixes it when I am on my desktop and I get the neverending new message alerts is to log into the old RPoL and 'mark all as read' then pop back over to the responsive site ... for some reason doing that on the old site really marks the messages as read (as opposed to marking them read on the R.RPol site).

In reply to Ski-Bird (msg # 1727):

I don't think the constant message indicator has anything to do with cookies in this case.  It's just that the thread in question is seeing a lot of traffic.  :)

In reply to bigbadron (msg # 1728):

Right you are.  I misread it.