Re: AIRPORT TRAVEL

[Guest guest]

In regard to the discussion on going through airport security, I just always

state that I have spinal instrumention, and they almost always use the hand

wand. I do have a picture of my x-ray in my wallet (I also have one on my wall

at work :-) ), and I have a card that states I have metal spinal instrumention.

I have found that all those machines are set at different sensitivity levels as

some will go off, and others do not (this could be with something as small as

keys or a belt buckle). I work in a large US Federal Government office

building, and even when going through the same machine, some days it rings and

other days it does not.

In the little international travel that I have done, the country with the

highest level of security is Israel. They often have you go through two or

three metal detectors, hand scan, AND take you into a small room. This is done

with EVERYONE, not just those that state they have some type of metal

implant(s).

S.

[Guest guest]

TO EVERYONE:

ANYONE WITH A COCHLEAR IMPLANT HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT AIRPORT TRAVEL?

DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN?

THANKS,

M.

[Guest guest]

Hi M,

I'm sorry for the delayed response. I flew all the way to Italy and

back in March. I went through security with my CI turned on and had

no problems with noise or with the CI setting off the scanner. One

security agent told me I might want to " take off my cell phone before

going throught the scanner " but said it was ok when I told her it was

a CI lol.

Best regards,

Jim

>

> TO EVERYONE:

>

> ANYONE WITH A COCHLEAR IMPLANT HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT AIRPORT

TRAVEL?

> DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN?

>

> THANKS,

> M.

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

In March when hubby and I and flew to NY (from FL) I dutifully

notified airport security that I had a CI so they wanded me. That

included me taking off my shoes and them checking the bottom of my

feet. Clean? I hope so. Same thing upon return. This last weekend we

flew to New Jersey and ditto. As usual, I sent my spare processor

through the x-ray machine.

I got to thinking about this. My spare processor was never

compromised, so I would always have that to fall back on if my

programming was deleted. I was getting very tired of being wanded and

patted and inspected. This time I decided to say nothing and passed

through security with nary a problem. I didn't set off alarms and my

processor programming stayed intact.

I know I've been cautious and others of you have probably learned

this long ago, but on the outside chance that someone out there is

still wondering " if it's safe to go back in the water, " I'm letting

them know that it is. (One caveat might be that if there is sign

saying pacemaker users should be wanded, that may also apply to us.)

In addition, I no longer turn off my processor upon take-off or

landing since, according to the airline, it is not necessary.

[Guest guest]

When I flew to Canada last month, I did nothing different. Walked thru,

my dog set off the alarms but not I. I dont turn off the CI going thru

security. I would *not* suggest running the hardware thru x ray. Been said

static electricity is a possibility.

Those of us with CI's need not do anything different.

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