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walkitoutI’ve been trying to figure out how to feel safer about traveling, after having gotten fairly sick this past trip and struggling with a well-meaning travel partner who could not seem to get me what I needed. I could have viewed this as a simple indication to pack more medical supplies (did I do that? Yes! I have ordered rehydration salts with nothing added and loperamide without lactose or aspartame), or to train myself to be hyperspecific about the kind of help I asked for, or to further limit who I traveled with. But I kept thinking how I wanted to be able to travel by myself again, even if only for parts of road trips between visits with others. The ER is always somewhere, but that’s a miserable experience under the best of circumstances. I asked last night on cocktail zoom (I was en route Friday so I moved it to Saturday), and EW said, surely there’s some kind of rich person concierge service you just call them up and they’ll fix it.
I was skeptical. I mean, really skeptical.
But it turns out there are indeed doctors who specialize in house calls, often at hotels or for travelers wherever they might be, and if you get clever with google and look at your destination, they are not that hard to find. They are often single doctor practices, and will bring medication, IV fluids, mobile x ray and ultrasound, EKG, any of the small portable stuff to you in your hotel, home, boat, plane, you name it. They’ll sew you up, extract fluid, stabilize your blood sugar, dispense medication that they have prescribed for you. Not everything, and if they can’t do it, they’ll facilitate transfer to someone who will. At least one Orlando operation has a bunch of clinics as well and can do emergency dentistry for you at one.
So I’m feeling substantially more reassured that I can solve this category of problem should it arise for me or someone in my traveling party, and without needing much more than 20 minutes, a mobile device and cell service and/or wifi, and a credit card.
Apparently travel insurance generally will pay for costs incurred in using this stuff, in case anyone out there is thinking, yeah, but it must be really expensive. Compared to finding and traveling to a local ER, I’m thinking this looks pretty appealing.
Mobile eye care (exams, contact lens delivery, look at the frames and then get the glasses altho possibly not all in one visit, etc.) and mobile dentistry (https://www.flosstime.com/ — note the mobile dental care the Aseptico AMC-25, which is currently 10-12 weeks backordered) also exist.
I was skeptical. I mean, really skeptical.
But it turns out there are indeed doctors who specialize in house calls, often at hotels or for travelers wherever they might be, and if you get clever with google and look at your destination, they are not that hard to find. They are often single doctor practices, and will bring medication, IV fluids, mobile x ray and ultrasound, EKG, any of the small portable stuff to you in your hotel, home, boat, plane, you name it. They’ll sew you up, extract fluid, stabilize your blood sugar, dispense medication that they have prescribed for you. Not everything, and if they can’t do it, they’ll facilitate transfer to someone who will. At least one Orlando operation has a bunch of clinics as well and can do emergency dentistry for you at one.
So I’m feeling substantially more reassured that I can solve this category of problem should it arise for me or someone in my traveling party, and without needing much more than 20 minutes, a mobile device and cell service and/or wifi, and a credit card.
Apparently travel insurance generally will pay for costs incurred in using this stuff, in case anyone out there is thinking, yeah, but it must be really expensive. Compared to finding and traveling to a local ER, I’m thinking this looks pretty appealing.
Mobile eye care (exams, contact lens delivery, look at the frames and then get the glasses altho possibly not all in one visit, etc.) and mobile dentistry (https://www.flosstime.com/ — note the mobile dental care the Aseptico AMC-25, which is currently 10-12 weeks backordered) also exist.