Thank you for posting this. I know exactly how you felt as I had the same experience a couple of years ago.
Rather validating that the way it made me feel wasn’t just me being concerned with how I looked to others. However the TSA employees couldn’t have been nicer and if I needed to do it again I wouldn’t hesitate. After all why should I care about what strangers may be thinking?
Good question--why should we care? I guess it depends on the circumstances, or did for me in this case, since the only time I had been in a wheelchair was being wheeled out from a hospital to my car after a surgery, which was far less public and very normal in the situation. This was something brand new and extremely public and public exposure is a prime possibility for embarrassment. Or can be.
Thank you for posting this. I know exactly how you felt as I had the same experience a couple of years ago.
Rather validating that the way it made me feel wasn’t just me being concerned with how I looked to others. However the TSA employees couldn’t have been nicer and if I needed to do it again I wouldn’t hesitate. After all why should I care about what strangers may be thinking?
Good question--why should we care? I guess it depends on the circumstances, or did for me in this case, since the only time I had been in a wheelchair was being wheeled out from a hospital to my car after a surgery, which was far less public and very normal in the situation. This was something brand new and extremely public and public exposure is a prime possibility for embarrassment. Or can be.