Finding the chase and cutting to it

As you can tell from my blog, I love travelling.

I have a motorbike, push bike, car (ICE and EV), canoe and am reasonably happy to use public travel though buses and trains do tend to make me travel sick 😀

I used to love flying, I have had two flying lessons though after 29th Jan 2009, I am unlikely to be allowed a flying license.

The reason I am writing this is to share my travelling experience yesterday.

Tuesday I flew to Edingburgh for a business meeting.  Very uneventful, unusually, the A12 was perfect and I got to Stansted by car with no issues.  The flight was on time and while security was its fun self, I got someone to pat me down in the secluded little room.

When 9/11 first happened, body scanners and my pump were reasonably happy together.  I had a 3rd gen pump and the manufacturers were happy that the airport body scanners did not pose an issue.

As I have become more of a cyborg, that is less convenient.  As the loops have closed, the manufacturers of the various equipment are less happy about the effects of full body scanners on this increasingly more sensitive equipment.  The pump makers have never been happy about putting the pumps through xray machines but now I am wearing CGMS, that’s pretty moot.  The sensors are really not up to it and at £45 a shot, I cannot afford to lose one for a trip.

Security people are also much less happy about a risking in public or indeed by members of the opposite sex (though I suspect happy for a gay woman to risk down a female suspect)!

So now I have to waste time having to sign a waiver and go off to a private room.  It takes about 47mins end to end (if women are around to do the task).  During daylight hours slightly less.

It doesn’t help that I travel alone much of the time for business.  Since my bike accident in Aug, my face needs gunk to try to minimise the scaring and promote the muscle healing that is still going on but my smile is becoming more symmetrical gradually 🙂 ).

I am twittering for help.  I have nothing to hide, I am happy to be frisked and wiped down in public but my clothing is not helping to prove that argument.

This is what I need:

1. A dress which can switch to being transparent with a hole to allow my pump to pass through it, velcro closure for that port would be ace.  A pocket for the pump too would be good.
2. A decent bra without any metal lacy enough to show I am not hiding anything but that covers others modesty.
3. I can wear pants/knickers to save blushes especially for when I am menstruating.

Is anyone sitting there with the imagination and willingness to help, please?