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Marian · 07-03-2009, 07:10 PM

As many of you know, my son is a graduate student on the West Coast, and our family lives on the East Coast.

My son may need a medical procedure within the next few weeks of the sort where you have to be sedated -- meaning that another adult must go with him, sign him out afterward, and take him back to his apartment. But most of his friends -- including all three of his apartment-mates -- are not on campus this summer, and there are no family members nearby. If necessary, a family member will travel to his college community to help him out with this situation, but that would be very expensive.

Has anyone here run across this sort of problem? Has a student in your family ever needed this kind of procedure while at a school far from home? How did you handle the situation?

07-03-2009, 07:10 PM	#1
Marian Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 3,331	Student needing medical procedure As many of you know, my son is a graduate student on the West Coast, and our family lives on the East Coast. My son may need a medical procedure within the next few weeks of the sort where you have to be sedated -- meaning that another adult must go with him, sign him out afterward, and take him back to his apartment. But most of his friends -- including all three of his apartment-mates -- are not on campus this summer, and there are no family members nearby. If necessary, a family member will travel to his college community to help him out with this situation, but that would be very expensive. Has anyone here run across this sort of problem? Has a student in your family ever needed this kind of procedure while at a school far from home? How did you handle the situation?
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