Tsa: My Insulin Gist Too A Game Of 'He Said, She Said, Too She Agreed.'

"YES, of bird I desire you lot to experience me upwards in addition to or position my expensive electronic pancreas through the Xray/body scanner"... said no one ever.
When it comes to TSA in addition to my insulin centre I experience similar a broken record. 
A broken tape who has larn real adept at non taking no for an answer. 
With that beingness said - it's ridiculously exhausting, non to refer frustrating. 
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I stood inward delineate of piece of work at Philadelphia International final Thursday, waiting to perish through security. 
I was on my agency to the Novo Nordisk’s Summit inward Phoenix in addition to I wanted to the TSA airdrome component division of my journeying to endure over. 
Sidebar: I’m writing a postal service re: my experience at the Novo Nordisk Summit, thence rest tuned.

The delineate of piece of work moved at a adept measuring in addition to shortly I was unopen plenty to accept off my shoes, position them inward a tray along amongst my coat in addition to placed my handbag inward or thence other tray. 
I looked at the immature (and past times immature I hateful I wasn’t certain if he was truly quondam plenty to purchase beer legally,) TSA Agent, standing in front end of the trunk scanner “don’t cross THIS YELLOW LINE,”, area. I smiled at him in addition to said: 

Me: Hi! I’m going to demand a visual inspection for my insulin pump, please.
TSA Guy: No you lot don’t.
Me: Yes I do.
TSA Guy: No, you lot don’t. 
Me: Yes, I do.

TSA Guy: The trunk scanner isn’t an X-ray, it’s non going to wound it.
Me: X-ray or not, I demand a visual inspection for my insulin pump.
I tin perish through the trunk scanner no problem, but my insulin centre can’t - in addition to it can't perish through the Xray. It needs to endure visually inspected. 
I demand to utter amongst your boss, please.

TSA GUY shouted across to the other side of the trunk scanner to no i inward item in addition to said: HEY, she needs a total pat trunk pat downward because she’s wearing an insulin pump.
Me: Noooo, I don’t demand or require total trunk pat downward - I tin unplug my insulin pump, no problem. I demand a visual inspection for my insulin pump, non a total trunk pat downward because I’m wearing an insulin pump. BIG DIFFERENCE.

Then a adult woman TSA Agent walked over in addition to said: What’s up? 
TSA Guy: She needs a total trunk pat downward because she doesn’t desire to accept her insulin centre through the scanner.
Me: I don’t demand or desire a total trunk pat down  - I tin perish through the trunk scanner, but my insulin centre can’t. I demand a visual inspection for my insulin pump.
And for the record, it was simply equally tired in addition to annoying continually maxim it, equally is to proceed writing/reading said same phrase. 

TSA Woman to TSA Guy: She’s right, she doesn’t demand a pat down. 
And within my head, my inner monologue was all: I TOLD YOU, I TOLD YOU, I TOLD YOU! 
And in addition to thence she turned to me in addition to said: But I create demand to exam in addition to swab your insulin centre in addition to your hands. Are you lot OK amongst that?

Me: YEPPER. 

So piece my trunk was beingness scanned, TSA Agent Lady in addition to my insulin centre waited for me on the “other side,” in addition to and thence escorted me to the row of machines; where she swabbed my insulin centre in addition to the front end in addition to dorsum my hands, position the exam swaps inward or thence split of majority spectrometer thing in addition to waited for the all the clear. 
The whole experience took less than ii minutes from escort to majority spec in addition to and thence I was adept to go. 
And in addition to thence I thanked her in addition to went on my way. 

And i time over again the confusion equally to why or thence TSA agents are thence quick to reject in addition to scrap when it comes to a visual/hands on inspection of an insulin centre in addition to or cgms, piece other agents receive got no work in addition to seem to endure inward the know, was frustrating. 
It wasn't rocket surgical operation in addition to I wasn’t disceptation near having my centre or my hands swiped.

I wasn't trying to brand someones project harder, nor did I desire to endure felt upwards past times stranger because it was easier for them.
It’s non easier for me. Being felt upwards past times soul I don’t know isn’t my watch of a adept fourth dimension - in addition to I know for a fact that in that location are other options available.  
And putting a real expensive, precarious, precious electronic pancreas through an X-ray or trunk scanner volition endure never endure an pick for me - thence delight goal trying to larn into one.

I was at the real same airdrome where a most first-class TS Agent told me to ever insist for a visual inspection of my insulin pump in addition to never to accept no for an answer. 

It was also the real same airdrome where my insulin centre i time tested positive for explosives and I was carted off to the petty gray room for a to a greater extent than ‘intimate’ search. 

But no thing what airdrome I'm at, it's ever an lawsuit  - in addition to it shouldn't be.

It shouldn’t receive got to endure a “he said, she , said,” when it comes to visual inspections of insulin pumps, cgms, or whatever other durable medical equipment for that matter. 

It shouldn’t drive a concord upwards inward tline in addition to it shouldn’t involve a three, sometimes 4 agency conversation, every unmarried fourth dimension - no thing airport. 

But it ever does.