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What preparations do you make when travelling with epilepsy?
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Thanks for your detailed descriptions of managing travel. Very helpful and interesting! Glad you took a chance to get back on life’s journey! 💝
Recently I’ve had to travel through very large airports like O’Hare in Chicago, ones I usually avoid in our international travel. I sign up for a wheelchair to go from plane to connecting flight gate, which is—of course—usually at the opposite end of the airport, as much as 20-35 minutes away. I can manage the overstimulating environment much better from the chair, even though I could probably walk the distance. Risk and reward balance out here, especially when others are wary of my having another tonic/clonic seizure. I’m learning I don’t have to “prove it” to anyone that I am more physically capable than they think.
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oh I did travel with a wheelchair once, with my caregiver being the one responsible with pushing me. Both us loved it. Not sure about the airports you normally trqnsport out of, I believe it's O'Hare?. For me it would be Changi in Singapore. At immigration, there's always a lane for passengers who require "special assistance" and the queue was normally very short. There I then remembered it was the same for the gates and those with wheelchairs would be called after those with frequent flier status for boarding. Wheelchair was checked in at the aircraft door. Before landing, a flight attendant came and asked if I would need any assistance upon disembarkation. Yup so we loved traveling with wheelchair 3 years ago but I chose to do things as "normal" as I could at Taipei last month.
Cheers,
Louis
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Hi!
Ah yes, I forgot to mention I hate mega airports with just 1 single mega terminal (like Doha). They can be good airports. But in the event my incoming flight is delayed and I have a connection with the connecting flight in the other end of the terminal, I have to run. And there's a chance my checked in bag may not make it.
I always prefer 1 mega airport with minor terminals with the same carrier occupying most of 1 similar terminal if I have an international connection. I won't need to walk too far clearing immigration for domestic connection and the train/bus taking me to the domestic terminal of same carrier can be easily reached. Or they may even be in the same terminal.
Cheers,
Louis