Eye Floaters

I've been advised my the doctor's office not to bring cash or other valuable with me.

Medicare doesn't play for transportation and neither does my secondary insurance.
 

debodun said:
I've been advised my the doctor's office not to bring cash or other valuable with me.

Medicare doesn't play for transportation and neither does my secondary insurance.
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Can you use an ATM before/after the hospital, to pay for the motel, and get a taxi?
 
debodun said:
I thought I had found a transportation service (Shred 518), but they only accept Medicaid (not Medicare) insurance and do not take cash rides.
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What are you going to do, Deb? All I can say, is, get there somehow on your own.

Meanwhile, can you visit your bank and get a bank card, so you could withdraw money from an ATM?
 
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I emailed the surgeon's office to ask what the procedure entailed. This was the reply:

Your planned procedure is a Pars Plana Vitrectomy, Scleral Buckle, EndoLaser, Gas Versus Silicone Oil Injection - Left Eye

Anyway, I still have a small sliver of vision in the uppper left of that eye, but it's about 7/8 occluded.

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If your vision has declined to this level, it is no longer safe for you to drive. You need to get this resolved, ASAP.
 
You definitely won’t be fit to drive that day because of the drugs. I had five eye surgeries; I know how debilitating it can be. If your bank is open tomorrow, go get a debit card. I don’t think they can get you a credit card so quickly.

Call decent hotels and ask them if you can put down a cash security deposit. Stay the night before and the night of the operation. The hotel will have a security box you can use or hide your excess cash in the room. Put up a Do Not Disturb sign so the room isn’t cleaned. Take enough money with you for the taxi both ways.

Don’t worry about how much this is costing you. Do whatever it takes to keep your vision.
 
Could you ask the doctor re: travel? I've had many procedures where a particular doctor always had his office arrange transportation for me.
 
Still nobody from my church has come forward with an offer. It's not like I'm asking for nothing. In my email, I stipulated that I'd pay for their time, gas and even buy them a meal at any restaurant of their choice.

The problem may be that most of the parishioners are very elderly and can't drive well themselves and almost everyone else has serious problems in their lives as evidenced in the church prayer list - almost every member is on it with some issue.
 
Maybe you can arrange to get a temporary credit or debit card by then so you could use that proper transportation company.

You might want to buy a short term use mobile phone just so you have some way for them to contact you while you’re in the city.
 
That NY Connects was for Ontario County. I did call my county's Office for the Aging and they said they don't have a transportation program.

The other link only turned up people that were looking to work as an in-home heath care aide.
 
debodun said:
That NY Connects was for Ontario County. I did call my county's Office for the Aging and they said they don't have a transportation program.

The other link only turned up people that were looking to work as an in-home heath care aide.
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I "googled" 'Senior Transportation, Stillwater, NY', and came up with several web sites....two of which I posted in my other response. Do a search on that topic...there are several sites. One way, or another, if you don't have any friends/relatives that can help, it is going to cost you some money....or you will lose your sight.
 
One thing that also concers me is the time between when this started and when I will get treatment. It will be over a week and most items I've read on RD say it needs to be taken car of ASAP. The longer the wait, the less sucessful the procedure will be. Circimstances prevented this - from being turned away at an emergency clinic and then having to go to another facility and then having to find someone with an appointment opening. Retinal specialists are rare here in my locale and those that are here are booked up for weeks.
 

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