Equipment and medical needs
Travellers · 1 thread
Oxygen, dialysis, scooters and assistance dogs, and the lead time each one needs.
Travelling with a concentrator, with dialysis to arrange, with a scooter or with an assistance dog each has its own paperwork and its own lead time, and this is where readers who do it compare the practicalities. It is the section Steph watches most closely, because the line between a logistics tip and a medical judgement matters here more than anywhere.
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Where the logistics end and the clinicians start
The honest thread running through this section is that the logistics and the medicine are two different jobs. Readers here are good on the logistics: how far ahead to book a visitor dialysis slot, how to get airline clearance for a concentrator, what the airline wants declared and when. That practical spine is set out in dialysis on holiday and in travelling with oxygen, both of which start months before you fly.
What this forum will not do, and what Steph steps in to say when a thread drifts, is tell you whether you are fit to travel, or what your own limits are, or which destination is medically wise for you. Those belong to your own renal team, respiratory team or clinician, who know your case. Booking a slot is not a medical sign-off, and a helpful reply from a stranger is not either.
So bring the logistics questions here in full, and keep the medical ones for the people looking after you. Get the paperwork moving early, because on this side of travel a late start is the thing that most often ends a plan before it begins.