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My Left Breast Put Fancy TSA Scanner to the Test
Sandra Fish
Politics
Daily
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
A funny thing happened to me at airport security this week:
The full-body scanner appeared to detect my fake left breast.
After I sauntered sleepily through the regular scanner at Denver
International Airport, the TSA guy motioned me into the clear,
cylindrical, full-body scanner (aka, the Millimeter Wave). The
woman there asked me to step on the yellow footprints and raise
my arms above my head. She murmured into a headset to start
the scan. There was a quick motion through the plexiglass. She
asked me to turn, step on the green footprints and hold my arms
straight out. Another scan.
She motioned me out of the scanner and asked me to wait for
word from someone in some secret room somewhere, someone looking
at a vision of my body sans jeans, cardigan, turtleneck, etc.
Hmmm . . .
Then she said she needed to check something. And she began
sweeping her hands around my left breast and rib cage.
[...]
Back to the TSA. As the security screening woman felt me up,
I mentioned to her that I have an implant, the result of mastectomy.
She relayed the information to those unseen through her microphone.
A few seconds later, she sent me on my way. And I tweeted and
Facebooked about the experience. A friend in Tallahassee mentioned
that friend of his had to lift his shirt to expose his colostomy
bag to the TSA in Philadelphia. I'm happy I didn't have to expose
anything to the scanning lady, and she should be too. Medical
professionals I've met consider my surgical aftermath a work
of art, but laypeople might be kind of weirded out by the oval
skin graft and the way I can flex my breast (the lat dorsi still
seems to work!). Then again, this is nothing compared to what
my friend Diane goes through -- she has two rebuilt hips and
two fake tatas, the latter courtesy of breast cancer.
Full
article here
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