Urine Porphyrins shipping costs! Oh my.

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Good morning!

I just shipped my son's first Urine Porphryins test off to France. For

what it cost me, I was tempted to buy an airline ticket and take it

there myself. I've never seen Paris.

My instructions said ship FedEx only (looks like instructions from my

doc and not the lab). I had the choice of $60 (1 week) and $70 (2

days). The instructions also talked about the specimen being " OK " for

the 3 days of transit, which I took to mean it would not be OK to send

it via ground.

I'm thinking I could have sent this another way. I should have checked

before hand, but I'm asking now.

I feel a little stupid. One, I'm not sure this test was really

necessary (I'm chelating regardless). Two, again I question the

financial waste of it all.

Pam