> If I go through the airport with her, there is no guarantee the agents will let me stay with her and explain the situation.
I am - without being an expert - pretty sure there is a procedure for care givers.
The last time I flew - 2010 - it was a few months after my wife had bi-lateral knee surgery. She was mobile, but not spry, not able to walk more than fifty yards at a go.
We had an airport provided wheel chair, a guy or gal to push. My role was care-giver and I got to be with her throughout the procedure. 'Is this your care giver - step this way, Sir.'.
Worked pretty well: the pusher person knew where to go, the TSA goons got us to the head of the line and it worked out.
I don't know about the leg brace, though. That might be a problem.
I'm with you on the TSA being bad news and a worse idea. The day it was announced I knew it would be a goat rope, a hit against the 4th amendment and would never, ever, go away.
But I am old enough to remember when airports had observation decks for the public, anyone could march down to the gate with only a nod to the sleepy airport guy running the scanner, and if you'd told anyone what's going on in 2013 they'd snort and say
'Maybe in the USSR, it's run by commies. But never in the USA.'
I am - without being an expert - pretty sure there is a procedure for care givers.
The last time I flew - 2010 - it was a few months after my wife had bi-lateral knee surgery. She was mobile, but not spry, not able to walk more than fifty yards at a go.
We had an airport provided wheel chair, a guy or gal to push. My role was care-giver and I got to be with her throughout the procedure. 'Is this your care giver - step this way, Sir.'.
Worked pretty well: the pusher person knew where to go, the TSA goons got us to the head of the line and it worked out.
I don't know about the leg brace, though. That might be a problem.
I'm with you on the TSA being bad news and a worse idea. The day it was announced I knew it would be a goat rope, a hit against the 4th amendment and would never, ever, go away.
But I am old enough to remember when airports had observation decks for the public, anyone could march down to the gate with only a nod to the sleepy airport guy running the scanner, and if you'd told anyone what's going on in 2013 they'd snort and say
'Maybe in the USSR, it's run by commies. But never in the USA.'