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04-28-2009, 01:46 AM

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Flying or Driving to travel for surgery?

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Posted By Katie

Thanks dridobits! I'll check that out, and I got...

Thanks dridobits! I'll check that out, and I got a notice that you had tried to reach me. Sorry about that...I sent you a PM also letting you know I cleared out my box a bit. :o

That's probably...

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04-27-2009, 05:32 AM

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Flying or Driving to travel for surgery?

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Posted By Katie

Oh, I plan to take lots of good stuff with me...

Oh, I plan to take lots of good stuff with me when I leave home ;) I can't take most meds, so have a very select list anyway. I'm not going to take a chance on trying something new that might make...

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04-27-2009, 01:07 AM

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Flying or Driving to travel for surgery?

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Posted By Katie

Why did you have incisions both front and back? ...

Why did you have incisions both front and back?

I've talked to a couple of others who have had similar surgeries and had no problem with driving home by dividing up the trip over two days, so...

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04-26-2009, 03:48 AM

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Flying or Driving to travel for surgery?

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Posted By Katie

It's not just Air Canada...United was almost the...

It's not just Air Canada...United was almost the same, as were most others I've checked. It is also the amount of time it takes to fly that relatively short distance that is convincing me to...

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04-25-2009, 07:38 PM

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Flying or Driving to travel for surgery?

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Posted By Katie

Thanks Maria. We actually did this trip just...

Thanks Maria. We actually did this trip just over two weeks ago, down to see Dr. Bitan for a consult. We took it easy and had no problems other than being exhausted by the time we got home. We...

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04-25-2009, 02:03 PM

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Flying or Driving to travel for surgery?

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Posted By Katie

Justin, the other thing about flying, when I went...

Justin, the other thing about flying, when I went to that supersaver website, was that almost all of the flights were five to seven hours because of layovers...that's almost the full time required...

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04-25-2009, 02:00 PM

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Flying or Driving to travel for surgery?

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Posted By Katie

Maria, that is a very smart idea. And what makes...

Maria, that is a very smart idea. And what makes it even better is that we could put a mattress in the back of our vehicle ;) Everything folds flat and it would hold a double size air mattress or...

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04-25-2009, 03:09 AM

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Flying or Driving to travel for surgery?

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Posted By Katie

Justin, are you kidding me? Wow, you really did...

Justin, are you kidding me? Wow, you really did get a deal! I have checked both Air Canada and United, and the second one was only three hundred cheaper...just over $1400. And I checked lots of...

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04-24-2009, 10:51 PM

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Flying or Driving to travel for surgery?

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Posted By Katie

Harumph! $1800 for the cheapest return flight...

Harumph! $1800 for the cheapest return flight from our city to NYC! That's almost the same price as flying to Germany! It only cost us $200 in gas for the same trip two weeks ago.

Off to check...

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04-24-2009, 10:32 PM

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Flying or Driving to travel for surgery?

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Posted By Katie

Thankfully Dear Heart is extremely good at...

Thankfully Dear Heart is extremely good at navigating....we got to Lenox Hill Hospital on the first try without a map of the city...and traveled down on one of the 80 highways, 81 or 85 I think,...

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04-24-2009, 09:36 PM

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Flying or Driving to travel for surgery?

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Posted By Katie

So my only issue with taking the car is finding a...

So my only issue with taking the car is finding a place to put it. The parking anywhere near the hospital will cost us over $70/day x a couple of weeks. And we need to get the insurance updated to...

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04-24-2009, 08:00 PM

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Flying or Driving to travel for surgery?

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Posted By Katie

Justin, would traveling by car, even if we broke...

Justin, would traveling by car, even if we broke it up over two days coming home after surgery, be a really bad idea? Would it be any worse than flying 12 hours from Germany, etc? Is it more the...

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04-24-2009, 02:49 PM

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Flying or Driving to travel for surgery?

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Posted By Katie

Justin, Thanks so very much for this. It is...

Justin, Thanks so very much for this. It is exactly what I was hoping for...some advice from someone who has been there, done that ;)

Is Laguardia the main airport, the one most of the flights...

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04-24-2009, 02:00 PM

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Flying or Driving to travel for surgery?

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Posted By Katie

Flying or Driving to travel for surgery?

I put this in the Surgery and Recovery thread by mistake, so have copied it over to here.

We live about eight hours from NYC, where I am probably going to be going for five level surgery, a...

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