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Originally Posted by Jimking
What crosses my mind is the pain she would have to go through just changing cloths on just any given day. We were recently in the eastern shore of Delaware. We were walking on the shore line, the water was cold, about 65 degrees and the air temperature was 100. Suzy was barefoot and because of the contrast, I believe, her feet soon turned blue and became very swollen. She couldn't get into her shoes and had extreme difficulty changing pants. That was last week and only today her feet are finally deflating. However, I suppose if we fly she could wear a bathing suit, a tight one.  |
I don't know about Suzy, but constriction is death for me, even for less than a minute, depending upon location. That said, it absolutely gives the cleanest profile with "advanced imaging techniques." If changing clothes wasn't such a pain - and wearing something tight was tolerable if only for a few minutes - I would recommend wearing something "form fitting," just long enough to clear security, switching into whatever is most comfortable in the handicap stall of the first rest room on the other side.
As far as swelling is concerned, there is probably a good argument for the
occasional use of diuretics following a flight - in consort with prescription potassium supplements - but I stress occasional. (At one point I was using them fairly regularly, until I realized I was dependent on them to urinate, I was then hooked up with a kindly nephrologist who explained that for every liter of "interstitial fluid" I wanted to lose, I had to part with two liters of blood.) Then too, being dehydrated mid-flight is never a good idea.