Well hello everyone and welcome back to my  channel.
  Or if you are new, hello welcome to my channel.
  My name is Sophie.
  So, Summer is the time to experience the world,  with friends, with family.
  Go places that you can't normally go.
  Travel to new cultures, new adventures.
  And just you know,  escape from reality for a week,
  or two weeks or a month.
  That being said with a chronic illness it  can prove tricky
  from getting around on the plane to food on  the plane.
  All that kind of thing.
  So i thought i would share my experience with  special assistance at the airport.
  [Upbeat Intro Music]
  So the first thing I'm going to talk about  are meals on the plane.
  Now I'm gluten free.
  I know there's obviously air free and meat  free and all of that.
  But i am gluten free so i can only speak for  the gluten free meals.
  now the 1 thing that i would say was negative  throughout both my journeys was that meal
  seem to bought  like 20 minutes before everyone else's.
  So i would get my meal like 20 minutes before  my friend would get hers.
  Which if you want to eat together because  you can't because your food would go cold.
  And i mean, plane meals aren't that hot  to start with
  let's be honest.
  But that i found kind of annoying and that  went both journeys.
  it wasn't just that plane it was, any journey  I had a special meal.
  It was the same.
  But on the way to Boston the meal was actually  half decent.
  In fact it was decent.
  I actually really liked it.
  It looked better than what the standard meal  was.
  It was chicken in a tomato sauce with vegetables  and sauté potatoes.
  And then like bread on the side and cheese  on the side and
  i think salad and fruit on the side or something  like that.
  it was actually pretty decent.
  it was nice.
  it was fairly hot *laughs*  and yeah it was actually quite a good meal
  for a gluten free meal.
  BUT…..
  On the way back from Miami,  it was an average meal.
  And that's being polite.
  I mean,  if you are a vegetarian then maybe you'd
  like it.
  But it was just basically the like thin layer  of like aubergine.
  You know like when you like grate it like  into a long…
  yeah it was like that.
  And it was just wrapped around like a sauce  or something.
  I don't even know.
  It was weird.
  You couldn't even cut the aubergine because  it was really tough and stuff.
  it wasn't great, but,  i mean,
  it was a meal…  i guess?
  So the second type of assistance that i personally  use and can share my experience with is
  Special assistance in getting to the gate,  onto the plane and back the other way.
  Now, I didn't use the wheelchair to the  gate for anything because i didn't feel
  i needed it.
  But i did use it coming off the plane on all  of my journeys because the pressure
  and POTS and all that jazz, i needed it.
  It was….
  Okay?!
  Now i have had a few different ways of this  special assistance.
  And i have had some that are great and i've  had some that are extremely poor.
  Last year when i went to Italy,  i actually had a really amazing special assistance
  getting to Italy.
  it was amazing.
  couldn't fault him at all.
  my dad even tipped him and my dad is NOT a  tipper.
  Hum… going to Boston was also really really  good.
  There was a wheelchair waiting when you get  off the plane and it took you through like
  security,  it took you to get your bags and then it took
  you to the door to the taxi.
  I couldn't really ask for more.
  His attitude maybe could have gone for a bit  because he was a little bit attitudey.
  And he was just kind of like erm.. where is  my tip?
  And i was like ah that's a bit rude.
  Especially considering he wasn't like,  he didn't have much of a personality or
  whatever.
  he literally just wheeled like 100mph while  my friend tried to catch up.
  BUT… it got me where i needed to go and  it did what i needed it to do.
  And it was there waiting for me.
  Okay so flight number 2 and 3 were kind of  similar in some ways.
  So, when got to Miami, it was a shorter flight  so it was about 2.5 hours.
  Luckily my head wasn't too bad.
  Just as well.
  Because,  there was no wheelchair waiting for me when
  i got off the plane and we waited till the  last because that's what we have been told
  to do.
  wait till the end then come off.
  None there so they have to call someone to  come.
  Fine, not the end of the world.
  Get on the wheelchair, he literally like wheels  me up the ramp at again 100mph with my friend
  like tryna catch up.
  Then goes oh we need you to change wheel chair.
  I was like huh?
  yeah you need to get on this one.
  Which is like this big like…  it's like a pussy wagon for any of you that
  watched come fly with me or like a buggy type  thing.
  Changes me to that but there's no space  for my friend so she has to walk and try and
  catch up  Which is again, ridiculous.
  There's no security at this airport because  it was an internal flight.
  Just as well because that probably would have  been another wheelchair change.
  So i've changed once.
  Then wheels me just before baggage…  like just literally you can see the door to
  baggage claim.
  Like oh okay umm… you need to get off here  and hum if you need another wheelchair then
  you need to give your boarding card to this  lady at this gate and she'll get you one.
  We're like excuse me?
  He was like yeah if you could get off and  sit over here and then you can just wait for
  another wheel chair.
  We were all just like seriously?
  Just to get to this point has already taken  like half an hour.
  Luckily at this point my head wasn't too  bad.
  It kind of had a chance to get a bit more  balanced.
  I was a bit unsteady on my feet, luckily i  wasn't having a really bad turn like i've
  had previously.
  So this point we were just like do you know  what,
  We can't be bothered.
  this is just ridiculous and we took a very..  very slow walk to baggage claim.
  And then i just kind of hung off my case and  lent on my case wheeling it out and just hoped
  for the best.
  Which really wasn't that like  i could have done with the wheelchair because
  i was unsteady.
  we would have had to wait for like another  20 minutes for a wheelchair to come.
  and there were other people waiting as well  which i thought was really really bad.
  Especially as they knew that there were this  many people on this flight that needed special
  assistance.
  There should have been enough there waiting  or just do one journey rather than keep switching
  you.
  i just thought like, luckily i wasn't that  bad.
  if i was having a really bad turn i wouldn't  have been able to keep changing wheelchair.
  it really defeats the point of having a wheelchair  if you have to keep getting up and down up
  and down every 5 minutes.
  The same kind of thing happened when we got  to Heathrow from Miami.
  We had to wait again for a wheel chair.
  they took us up.
  They dropped us off and said okay you need  to get on this wheelchair now.
  Then they went a bit further and it was just  before security and they were like okay we
  need to drop you here and you can wait again.
  So, again i was like i really don't feel  well..
  but like..  at this point you just want to get home.
  you don't want to be waiting to be changed  chair like 50 times.
  So, i mean…  it was….
  below average.
  I would say.
  Well that is all for this video.
  I would love to hear of you experiences if  you've used special assistance at the airport.
  If you've used it if you're blind, if  your deaf.
  Even if you've used the same types as i  have.
  I would love to hear your experiences.
  I have had good, but on this trip i didn't  have the best for the most part.
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