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[kaberett]

... Please do not eat or drink anything two hours before your appointment.

It is essential that after the procedure you arrange for an adult friend or relative to collect you by car or taxi. You will not be able to use the bus or train to travel home.

Hospital transport may be available if there is medical need. If you think you may be eligible please contact the Pain Clinic.

On arrival you will see the doctor to discuss and sign the consent form, however your appointment time may not the time of your treatment and a wait will be involved (between 10 minutes and 4 hours before your treatment) so please bring something to read or do to keep yourself occupied.

Comments

[kaberett]

So I think the best bit is where they tell me to take my medications as normal.

My medications that require eating on a four-hour schedule if I'm to take them properly.

[alexseanchai]

Heh, yeah, that's definitely the best bit. Ouch.

still at level AARGH but now thinking through coping possibilities

[jjhunter]

Do they offer food / drink if you have to wait more than 2 hours? or could you bring 'em with you? ...I mean, it may be a lot to expect from the kind of people who wrote ~these~ guidelines, but presumably they would be able to give you a rough estimate of the wait when you showed up (within half an hour versus not for at least two hours), so if you timed meds / eating such that both were consumed ~3.75 hours before, then if they say the wait will be at least two hours, you could duck out & eat/medicate immediately and not have to worry about it.

Anyway, I hope there's an accessibility coordinator type at this place or whatever umbrella institution it belongs to who can apply powers of commonsense & institutional authority to make this more feasible for you. Because still: whiskey tango foxtrot all the way.

Re: still at level AARGH but now thinking through coping possibilities

[kaberett]

I imagine they don't, on account of the restriction is presumably in case they fuck up and emergency surgery becomes necessary.

It will actually be okay (not least because night-time meds are the only ones it's *actually* a problem if I skip), but I thought this deserved recording in the annals of "... what are these people even DOING." Thank you lots. xx

[worlds_of_smoke]

-rubs my forehead- You'd think they don't know how to treat people with complicated medical histories or something.