flying post op with leg surgery
Aug 30, 2015, 7:26 am
#16
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: south of WAS DC
Posts: 10,131
using train eliminates risk of DVT? i would not think so. how is sitting on a train different from sitting on a plane? i do think flat bed was an excellent suggestion.
Aug 30, 2015, 11:21 am
#18
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: SEA
Programs: Million Miles achieved | 2017 Delta Platinum, United NADA, Global Entry, PreCheck, NEXUS
Posts: 1,295
I agree with this idea and would add that on most long haul trains they have "roomettes" which have beds and more personal space.
Aug 30, 2015, 11:41 am
#19
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: London
Programs: US Gold
Posts: 627
slawecki: Having looked it up, I see you're right that it's the inactivity more than whether it's a plane or train that causes DVT. Still, on a train you can move around a *lot* more and the seats are bigger (so you have more options for shifting position). On the long-distance Amtrak trains I've been on (SF to Portland, there are cars with big picture windows you can move to, also. It's just a much less cramped, immobile environment. Plus: all that great scenery!
wg
wg
Aug 30, 2015, 2:21 pm
#20
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Neither here nor there
Programs: UA Slvr, DL Slvr, AA plt, HH LTD, MR tit/LTP at least two of those buy 10 get 1 free coffee cards
Posts: 3,447
ETA: Depending on your insurance company, they may even approve an air ambulance trip to get him back in network sooner rather than later.
Last edited by aroundtheworld76; Aug 30, 2015 at 2:34 pm
Aug 30, 2015, 4:59 pm
#21
Suspended
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: DCA
Programs: UA US CO AA DL FL
Posts: 50,262
But, all of this comes back to asking the surgeon and giving the surgeon the flight parameters.
Aug 30, 2015, 7:00 pm
#23
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Indianapolis
Programs: Hilton-Diamond Lifetime Platinum AA UA, WN-CP, SPG Gold.
Posts: 7,377
Just take some low doce aspirins...same thing on International flights,,
Recommended by the MD who travels with me.,
You need to worry about blood clots.
Recommended by the MD who travels with me.,
You need to worry about blood clots.
Last edited by satman40; Aug 30, 2015 at 7:56 pm
Aug 30, 2015, 9:38 pm
#24
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Neither here nor there
Programs: UA Slvr, DL Slvr, AA plt, HH LTD, MR tit/LTP at least two of those buy 10 get 1 free coffee cards
Posts: 3,447
I used to work with an ER Doc who thought that she could write notes for folks with leg injuries to get exit row seats. She didn't realize that her notes (and the injuries she wrote them for) in fact prevented the patients from occupying the exit row.
While questions of medicine should be addressed to Doctors, it's appropriate to address questions of air travel to those who may know about that topic.
Sep 1, 2015, 7:37 am
#25
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jul 1999
Location: ORD/MDW
Programs: BA/AA/AS/B6/WN/ UA/HH/MR and more like 'em but most felicitously & importantly MUCCI
Posts: 19,719
You have got to be kidding. You really believe three days stuck on Amtrak would be less stressful than four and a half hours in a first class Virgin America seat? And Amtrak cross-country roomettes approach F air ticket prices.