LL, AL patients and airport security

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Ah, I was already envisioning having an experience like the one you've just described. I think I may change may travel plans.

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Yes id advise that tbh its not something id do again tbh. The only reason i did it was because i couldnt stomach another day in Beijing the severe boredom and the food was just way too much.

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Quote from: musicmaker on December 04, 2016, 10:01:28 PMAfter my LL surgeries I haven't actually gone through those security detectors. They have always manually searched me, as YS says.

Yes, flights can be pretty annoying, especially when you need using the toilet.

My grandfather faced the same problem and they manually checked him. so no worries about this issue

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We went on a trip (airplane), and my son still had the rods in.  It was not a problem.

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They dont detect the internal Nails. Almost fitbone

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I have two IM nails from LATN and two nuss bars from a chest surgery. Neither one has ever caused an alarm. However, when I came back home on crutches, they did pull me aside to do the wand/grope search. They also took my crutches while i was getting scanned to do an x-ray on them with my luggage.

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Quote from: YellowSpike on March 06, 2015, 01:14:24 PMNot sure about ItsMyLife, but when I called the airline ahead of time, they arranged for me to get a wheelchair (the first time I was ever in one!) from the luggage check-in spot to the actual terminal. Then, when the flight begins boarding, they wheel you to the actual plane itself, and then help you get to your seat if you need it. I was lucky to get a seat with a lot of legroom. Then, when the flight lands, they wheel you again from the plane through customs (if you were doing an international flight like I did) and security, to luggage, and then finally to whoever is gonna pick you up.

wow!, how much did you lengthen? 

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I had mobility assistance at the airport and they wheeled me around in a wheelchair and no one ever even knew about the metal nail in my legs. However, they patted me down instead of me going through the X-ray machines, so they didn’t even know I had them in me.

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Thank God my PT was with me, because I was really about to take one of my crutches and shove it up her ass. I'm a super nice guy and not confrontational like that...but that was just straight up mean, and for no reason!
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LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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This is literally the last thing I would ever care about with this surgery.  Just say you were in a car accident and have metal rods in your legs.  Then they do whatever and you move on.