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Airport security
So, after traveling just about every week for a year and half with a catheter bag and some straight caths in my carry on bag, I had my first experience going to the “special” inspection.
Seems the guy watching the scanner saw something he was unsure of. So they pull my bag and we go off to the inspection area and I ask what they are looking for so I can direct them to where it is.
The TSA guy says, it looks like a urinary catheter bag. I said, “It looks like that becaues that’s exactly what it is.” I pointed him to the front pocket of the wheely bag so he didn’t need to keep diggin though the inside looking for some secret pocket.
He pulls it out along with pretty much everything else in my bag and put it all in a bin to run back through the xray.
He did the little explosive swab as well on the bag.
I told him it was the first time in a year and half that anyone has wanted to see that and that I travel twice a week every week. He said it looks similar to military cordite. OK….then why did he say it looks like urinary catheter???
Oh well…I know the topic came up here a while back and I just wanted to let folks know. I’m not the kind of guy that gets embarrased easily and I’d actually have been fine carrying the bag out in plain view just to embarass the security guy. :)
I basically just said, I’ve been carrying it since I had bladder cancer a couple of years ago. If the guy hadn’t been really polite, I probably would have said in a loud voice that there are condom catheters in there too if he wants to check those out as well.
Mainly I just thought “For crying out loud!”
Mike
Age 54
10/31/06 dx CIS (TisG3) non-invasive (at 47)
9/19/08 TURB/TUIP dx Invasive T2G3
10/8/08 RC neobladder(at 49)
2/15/13 T4G3N3M1 distant metastases(at 53)
9/2013 finished chemo -cancer free again
1/2014 ct scan results….distant mets
2/2014 ct result…spread to liver, kidneys, and lymph system
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