Thursday night: Call Frontier Airlines to "inform" them that Jac will be traveling with oxygen. We are told that oxygen tanks are not allowed on board. D'oh! Now what! We are told that if Jac needs oxygen on the plane we have to get a POC - Portable Oxygen Concentrator. So I called our medical supplier (Lincare) for Jac's oxygen and left a message that we needed a POC and called the pediatricain to ask for a prescription for the oxygen.
Then we slept.
At 8 am we got up when Lincare called and said that they did not have a POC available - that if we needed one it would take 2 weeks! D'oh! We needed to leave for the airport at 1 pm!
So I went online and found a local company that offers POC rentals. I called them and they said that they had one and that we could come down and rent one - for $450! So I pumped and then left Jac with Jennifer and went off to get the POC - in Denver - 1 hour away!
I arrived at American Medical Sales and Repair, Inc. in southern Denver and they were awesome! They had the POC ready when I got there. Nick showed me how it worked, got me the contract and the invoice to sign, got me the form I needed for Frontier Airlines, faxed it to our pediatrician's office, got it back signed and got me out of there in 20 minutes! Amazing! Our trip was made possible by American Medical and I can't thank them enough!
Back in the car and back to Boulder in Denver traffic (sometimes I think Denver traffic is worse than LA! Hard to imagine!). Arrived in Boulder to finish the last packing, pump, and get on the road to the airport (45 minutes late for our plans but really early since we had padded our time so much (we left at 1:45 pm for a 5:10 pm flight and the airport is 40 minutes away).
We get to the airport and I park in the most expensive parking - right near the Frontier entryway. We get Jac out of the car, Abbey out of the car, all of the luggage out of the car and loaded onto us - and then Joseph calls and mentions that we could use WallyPark - and I was like "oh my gosh no!". He didn't realize we had already unloaded the car and were NOT going to reload it!
Jennifer travels handicapped - and so once we got to the front of the special check-in line we were in like sin. Jen was wheeled to the front of the TSA security line and we tagged along and went through with her. We temporarily lost the POC but located it quickly and then after a little drive for Jen and a walk for us we were at the gate!
Jac really enjoyed the airport. He looked around and played with Jen while I got food etc.
Then I had to pump. I looked around for a private place to pump and the bathroom seemed to be the only place that was not in full view (not that I care - I have lost all modesty when it comes to pumping). I decided to ask the Customer Service for Frontier if they knew of a place I could pump - and they let me use their office! Amazing! I pumped and when I got back it was time to board the plane.
Jac did really well on the plane. Because of Jen we had the front most seats in the plane - and Jac had a really good view of everyone boarding as we had boarded first. He watched everyone board and then I fed him as the plane took off. He cried a bit but was soothed pretty easily with the bottle and his paci.
He had a couple of diapers while we were on the plane and he seemed to throroughly enjoy having them changed on my seat. After I changed them and had him closed back up he seemed content to stay lying in my seat!
He ate for the landing and didn't cry much for the descent.
Grandfather Johnson met us outside security, we got the bags and headed home to La Canada.
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