<p>In the facility here, where both I and my mother have had one, they bring the pick up person into the recovery room, to a little waiting area, or right into the curtained partition if it’s ok with the patient. One simply cannot leave on one’s own. They won’t allow you out of the recovery area alone.</p>
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<p>My husband has his second one earlier this week – I got to be the escort. One of the women at the office said that any cancer check that could be done without cutting you open was a gift and no one should pass it up.</p>
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<p>Hi intparent. Well here’s how we help our D’s mature. Lay out all your options to her for rides, pros and cons. I bet she’ll volunteer and be most proud she can spare you from the other stressful requests of others.</p>
<p>In my experience, hospitals don’t let anyone leave without a personal pick-up, although DonnaL I believe could pull this off in the NYC metropolitan area! That aside, for most of us mortals, it’s not safe to leave unassisted.</p>
<p>You don’t have to detail the procedure to your D. It won’t be evident or messy as you exit the hospital; you’ll just be loopy/tired/groggy. My D has helped me through some difficult back surgeries with many procedures. We’ve since talked about how it means a lot to her to see me take good care of myself. Give her the chance to show you her best self by letting her drive you. Good luck.</p>
<p>intparent - that’s exactly what I did. H dropped me off at the surgery clinic on his way to work and D2 arrived a couple of hours later to pick me up. They had her come back to the recovery area to listen to post-op instructions (because they didn’t count on me remembering them, and despite the fact that they were all written out anyway!). So it’s not like she had to go and stay in the waiting room for the entire time. In fact, I think I had them call her when they were done to let her know I’d be ready to go home within an hour (we were only about 20 minutes from the surgical clinic) so she really arrived at the last possible moment… but in enough time for a little entertainment while I was still coming out of the anesthesia. D2 also did some clerical work in a urologist’s office this summer, so she got her fill of awkward and uncomfortable situations for a lifetime!</p>
<p>I think we need to have a contest for the best music to be playing as they do the procedure. My vote is</p>
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<p>Good point P3T.</p>
<p>I had my then 19 year old drop me off and pick me up for mine, apparently I am quite loopy and she enjoyed sharing the silly stories with the family. She has now been promoted to a position of even greater responsibility- the family dog, who is every one’s best buddy in the world, adored and spoiled and a 'bed buffalo" who sleeps with her (he’s 100#!). He’s been sick on & off for a couple of months and we had DD take him to the vet, not a simple appt, but one where he ended up being left over night. Way more difficult than dealing with a person who can speak and a real maturation moment. These things are good training for our teens and twenty somethings</p>
<p>Intparent: I just had one done on Monday, because there was no school. Junior daughter went with me. She stayed with me until my turn camet, then went to the waiting area and read a book until I was out of recovery. It really wasn’t a big deal, but I was at a fairly small hospital, if that is your concern. She had to sign papers saying that she was the driver and that she had received all paper work. </p>
<p>I did speak with the nurses before hand about a minor driving, and that was not an issue.</p>
<p>I’ve been trying to get DH to schedule his. Had one 5 years ago, found small polyps, ordered him back in 3. Well…</p>
<p>His problem is not so much the prep, but his work schedule, with meetings and travel, is just impossible. I think I will have to schedule his procedure and TELL him that’s when it is. The bigwhigs he meets with will just have to deal.</p>
<p>A dear friend just found a malignancy, so it seems to be happening all over, at least when you approach a certain age. Just do it.</p>
<p>just finished mine yesterday. I came home and sleep like a rock for hours afterwards. Thats some good stuff they give you before, they called it “milk of amensia”. My only comment was the prep made me sick to my stomach, but doable. Still waiting on biopsy result but I think I’m good for 5 years until I have to go again.</p>
<p>Good for you, sistersunnie. I took a friend in yesterday; it was her second in eight months. She’d had polyps removed last year and they wanted to biopsy the scar tissue. What was interesting to me is that they’d tattooed her colon so they knew where to take the sample this time around. (Is that TMI?)</p>
<p>Hmmmmm – now we get to make up funny things that they might have tatooed on her colon. Like, “Dig here!” or “This is the place!” or “X marks the spot!” or “If you can read this, you’re too close!”</p>
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<p>“Way Over Yonder”–Carole King</p>
<p>A friend of ours, our age, had his first colonoscopy last week and ended up with several feet of his colon removed. My DH talked to him, so of course, we have no substantive details, but he had surgery and they caught it early!</p>
<p>^^ The W of a friend of mine had a routine colonoscopy and they found cancer. Because of the colonoscopy they found it pretty early (I don’t know what stage). She went through treatment, although I don’t know what it included, and now she appears to be cured. If she’d have not done the colonoscopy it would have been bad news for her.</p>
<p>“I think we need to have a contest for the best music to be playing as they do the procedure. My vote is”</p>
<p>“Keep On pushing” by the Impressions (1964)</p>
<p>“I think we need to have a contest for the best music to be playing as they do the procedure. My vote is” (regarding the prep)</p>
<p>'All Through the Night," by Cyndi Lauper</p>
<p>“I think we need to have a contest for the best music to be playing as they do the procedure. My vote is”</p>
<p>“End of the Line” by the Travelling Wilburys</p>
<p>“Long and Winding Road”</p>
<p>The Beatles had a song for everything.</p>