Is that right? Did you really say that?

@youngdogmum I think many of us have found it s not out 'oldest' friends who step up when the going get tough. And it is tough, trying to maintain the balance between being independent and jumping into the pity pond. Terribly stressful for you, and no doubt your partner who will be worried sick and riddled with guilt. If someone who is not close has offered, ask them.

Try to think laterally about this. If your partner can't drive you and your friends are busy, does one of them live close enough to the hospital that you can cab it to there when you are discharged, let yourself in  and wait for your partner to pick you up? This is an important procedure and there has to be some solution. It doesn't matter how early you arrive at the hospital--if cancer teaches anything it teaches you how to wait--and if you have to discharge and go and sit in the local library until someone can collect you it is a third rate option, but at least someone will be around to call an ambulance if you need one.

So much 'Garghh' about this. I've been known to drive home when I'm not supposed to and can only be grateful i haven't caused some catastrophic accident that I'd spend my life regretting. 
As a last resort, can you contact the social worker and see if they have any volunteers who can transport you. Then you'll just have to flub the amount of time you will be at home on your own. Mxx