United Airlines: considered harmful to disabled persons

[c_crockett]

Thanks to John Coxon for alerting me to this: http://evilpuppy.livejournal.com/365126.html

Comments

[shelleybear]

Geeze!
Thanks hon.
I'm in the same boat she is.
Severe peripheral neuropathy in both feet (no, I'm NOT diabetic, they don't have a clue W.T.F. caused it) is not a visible disability but there are times when I just can't walk more then half a city block and I spend far too much time doing a "Greg House" imitation (popping vicodin like jellybeans).
I proposed a panal on non-visible disabilities at a con a few months before you friended me. It got good response.

[c_crockett]

Well, as you may have seen me mention over on fb, carrying a walking stick caused both Air Canada and UK Customs & Immigration to fall all over themselves being helpful. Even if a cane wouldn't help your foot pain, it might be useful as a social signalling device. There are some folding and telescoping ones that might be handy to whip out as required

[moon_custafer]

Cane signals are not always correctly received - somebody pulled green_trilobite's from his hand at Pearson because he was about to go through the metal detector, and he fell to the floor - on the upside, they sure rushed to help us after that....

[c_crockett]

That sucks. I had someone ignore the fact that my arm was in a sling and shove me so he could get on a subway car before people finished getting off. Since I had broken my elbow two days previously, it was quite painful. Nothing works 100% of the time. Still, what happened to green_trilobite is inexcusable. I hope he wasn't injured or badly shaken.

[c_crockett]

Zenten: That would be wonderful! If Kerry could go to sfcontario.ca and fill out a programme participant form, that would be really excellent. Thanks for the suggestion.