Traveling with medical issues can be a pain, especially time consuming. By the time you pack extra supplies and get to the airport, you can be exhausted before you even get to your destination.
I travel, by plane, to Georgia once a year to visit family. I always book my flights online in an attempt to make it easier, sometimes this helps, sometimes it doesn't. By booking online, it lets them know ahead of time that you are going to assistance, either with a wheelchair to get to the gate easier. It doesn't matter if you have your own, or whether use one of their wheelchairs, you still have to wait for someone to come push you to your gate. I had to wait about 20 minutes one time and made it to my gate with only a few minutes to spare.
In my experience, once they arrive to push you to the gate, things run relatively easy. They make sure that you get through security and if you tell them that you cannot stand to be search, they will do it my hand explaining as they go. One time when I went through, I had my braces on my legs and they just used a cloth of some kind to test to make sure you weren't carrying or didn't have anything on them that might cause a problem. They also tried to make it as pleasant as possible by trying to make light of the situation. I love traveling this way.
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