oxygen use on ship

My sister-in-law wants to go on a cruise with us, and she has to have
oxygen. Does anyone have pointers on how to go about this. We will be
on the Glory Sep. 2. Thanks for any info that you can provide. A
newbie to the group. Thanks

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wrote:

My sister-in-law wants to go on a cruise with us, and she has to have
oxygen. Does anyone have pointers on how to go about this. We will be
on the Glory Sep. 2. Thanks for any info that you can provide. A
newbie to the group. Thanks

Check in with the cruiseline for particulars. Most likely what will
happen is that they say you can have your own. Unless they are driving,
that will usually mean that they have to make arrangements to have
oxygen delivered to the boat. In many (if not most) cases, their local
supplier can make arrangements with someone local to the port to take
care of it.
The problem will most often be with the airlines since you can't
bring oxygen on board and you MUST use their cannisters that have FAA
approval. Get in touch with the airline to see what they need to have
done in the way of paperwork, etc.
Usually the American Lung Association or your local equivalent
will have information and/or people who know the ins and outs. You might
also want to check around to see if there is a nearby travel medicine
clinic that can help you.
One article on the subject that is fairly comprehensive is at
http://www.goworldtravel.com/ex/aspx...f7b-4e53-9b4e-
5edd380d7617&pageNum=2/xe/article.htm

http://tinyurl.com/fhg49

General website for American Lung Assoc is:
http://www.lungusa.org/

And the International Society of Travel Medicine
http://www.istm.org/
Which has a listing of travel clinics.

Personally I would probably get started on making the arrangements right
away.

Kurt, thanks for the timely, complete information to Redneck. I was
researching the answers when I again checked the headers and found your
post. Job well done!


"Kurt Ullman" wrote in message
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In article ,
wrote:

My sister-in-law wants to go on a cruise with us, and she has to have
oxygen. Does anyone have pointers on how to go about this. We will be
on the Glory Sep. 2. Thanks for any info that you can provide. A
newbie to the group. Thanks

Check in with the cruiseline for particulars. Most likely what will
happen is that they say you can have your own. Unless they are driving,
that will usually mean that they have to make arrangements to have
oxygen delivered to the boat. In many (if not most) cases, their local
supplier can make arrangements with someone local to the port to take
care of it.
The problem will most often be with the airlines since you can't
bring oxygen on board and you MUST use their cannisters that have FAA
approval. Get in touch with the airline to see what they need to have
done in the way of paperwork, etc.
Usually the American Lung Association or your local equivalent
will have information and/or people who know the ins and outs. You might
also want to check around to see if there is a nearby travel medicine
clinic that can help you.
One article on the subject that is fairly comprehensive is at
http://www.goworldtravel.com/ex/aspx...f7b-4e53-9b4e-
5edd380d7617&pageNum=2/xe/article.htm

http://tinyurl.com/fhg49

General website for American Lung Assoc is:
http://www.lungusa.org/

And the International Society of Travel Medicine
http://www.istm.org/
Which has a listing of travel clinics.

Personally I would probably get started on making the arrangements right
away.

In article ,
"LVTravel" wrote:

Kurt, thanks for the timely, complete information to Redneck. I was
researching the answers when I again checked the headers and found your
post. Job well done!

Thanks. I have written a couple of articles on the subject, although
neither was actually picked up and printed. It was mainly from memory
(g).

In article ,
"LVTravel" wrote:

Kurt, thanks for the timely, complete information to Redneck. I was
researching the answers when I again checked the headers and found your
post. Job well done!


One other thing, although I don't know if it will be of interest in
this case, many of the airlines now have RNs on staff who will travel
with the seriously ill person. American Airlines for instance has
Skycaare (get it?).
For those interested, this is a link to an article that actually got
published (grin)

http://community.nursingspectrum.com...le.cfm?AID=413
5
http://tinyurl.com/pgt4

On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 15:49:03 -0400, wrote:


My sister-in-law wants to go on a cruise with us, and she has to have
oxygen. Does anyone have pointers on how to go about this. We will be
on the Glory Sep. 2. Thanks for any info that you can provide. A
newbie to the group. Thanks

Is there any reason why you can't ask the cruise company?

Thanks for the info.We will be driving personnel vechicle. We have
contacted the cruise lines. Waiting on answer. At first her supplier
said that they would deliver to ship, then they said that they will
deliver to the hotel only. We will have 5 people and their luggage in
one vehicle, so may be hard to carry our own supply.We thougt that
maybe someone that had a personel experience could give us some
pointers.




On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:13:44 GMT, Kurt Ullman
wrote:

In article ,
wrote:

My sister-in-law wants to go on a cruise with us, and she has to have
oxygen. Does anyone have pointers on how to go about this. We will be
on the Glory Sep. 2. Thanks for any info that you can provide. A
newbie to the group. Thanks

Check in with the cruiseline for particulars. Most likely what will
happen is that they say you can have your own. Unless they are driving,
that will usually mean that they have to make arrangements to have
oxygen delivered to the boat. In many (if not most) cases, their local
supplier can make arrangements with someone local to the port to take
care of it.
The problem will most often be with the airlines since you can't
bring oxygen on board and you MUST use their cannisters that have FAA
approval. Get in touch with the airline to see what they need to have
done in the way of paperwork, etc.
Usually the American Lung Association or your local equivalent
will have information and/or people who know the ins and outs. You might
also want to check around to see if there is a nearby travel medicine
clinic that can help you.
One article on the subject that is fairly comprehensive is at
http://www.goworldtravel.com/ex/aspx...f7b-4e53-9b4e-
5edd380d7617&pageNum=2/xe/article.htm

http://tinyurl.com/fhg49

General website for American Lung Assoc is:
http://www.lungusa.org/

And the International Society of Travel Medicine
http://www.istm.org/
Which has a listing of travel clinics.

Personally I would probably get started on making the arrangements right
away.

In article ,
wrote:

Thanks for the info.We will be driving personnel vechicle. We have
contacted the cruise lines. Waiting on answer. At first her supplier
said that they would deliver to ship, then they said that they will
deliver to the hotel only. We will have 5 people and their luggage in
one vehicle, so may be hard to carry our own supply.We thougt that
maybe someone that had a personel experience could give us some
pointers.

There is an alt.support.asthma newsgroup that might be a more target
rich environment for personal stories. Good hunting and make sure she
has fun!!

If the sis-in law expires w/o oxygenn you can get a burial at sea and
save a few bux.

Kurt Ullman wrote:
In article ,
wrote:

Thanks for the info.We will be driving personnel vechicle. We have
contacted the cruise lines. Waiting on answer. At first her supplier
said that they would deliver to ship, then they said that they will
deliver to the hotel only. We will have 5 people and their luggage in
one vehicle, so may be hard to carry our own supply.We thougt that
maybe someone that had a personel experience could give us some
pointers.

There is an alt.support.asthma newsgroup that might be a more target
rich environment for personal stories. Good hunting and make sure she
has fun!!

Leave it to big jim backpacker to come up with a (what he thinks is
cute) idea, what a moron


cruise lover