Ditto.
I had to make several trips to get it done as well, and can not say enough good things about Miss Claudette’s hospitality, advice, and insight.
If you have a medical condition it adds a lot of extra work to the process, but it can be gotten through.
For any medical condition, you will have to have had a recent ( last month or so), evaluation of the condition. Better to get this taken care of at home with your doctor, who knows you, as opposed to an expensive visit to a local doctor in Louisiana who does not know you. If you have had a condition that required x-rays you will need to have recent x-rays taken. Bring the CD with the x-ray images on them to give to the office doing the pre-employment physical.
You have got to show up in person. If a company has 10 spots to fill, and 20 applicants sitting in the waiting room, and 100 applications that have been sent from the web, guess what …
If you are getting on in years like me, and have let time take its toll on you physically, now is the time to turn it around. Stretch, do some calisthenics, and get some cardio exercise regularly. I fast tracked myself by spending 2weeks back at home working out ALOT. Daily walks, treadmill, elliptical machine.
A minimum cardio fitness level as applied to airplane pilots should suffice, and I found the conditioning tips here helpful:
http://www.leftseat.com/tmst.htm
I also used an IPhone app with a heart rate monitor to measure my workouts, this helped in the motivation department tremendously:
Best of luck to you all who are looking to get down here.