This one didn't quite make it to the cabin. Well not at the time anyway.
I'm a Clinic Representative for a tour operator and doing my rounds yesterday visited one young lady who was in bed and with the obligatory IV line hanging from a pole dripping goodness knows what into her vein. When I asked how she was I got the standard reply of, "I just want to go home." Well it was departure day for her so we'll excuse it. So I asked what the doctor had to say when he did his rounds and again the standard reply of, "He wants to keep me in a bit longer." Well, it is a private clinic and the insurance company are paying, and to the bean counters a hospital bed is like a taxi with the meter running.
Then she left me gobsmacked by departing from the script with, "If I promise to go straight to hospital when I land, can I take this with me on the plane and go home tonight?"
'This' it turned out, was the IV line complete with stand. I thought she was joking so joined in by saying that I thought she might have a problem getting through security as there was more than 100 ml in the bottle.
"I hadn't thought of that," she said. "Can't you ask them to put it into smaller bottles!!!".
This particular pax will be appearing on a flight near you any day soon so I would steer clear of PFO for a while.
