{"id":1526,"date":"2026-03-05T15:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/the-pre-flight-safety-checklist-applies-to-both-ms-patients-and-caregivers\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:00:29","slug":"the-pre-flight-safety-checklist-applies-to-both-ms-patients-and-caregivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/the-pre-flight-safety-checklist-applies-to-both-ms-patients-and-caregivers\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018pre-flight safety checklist\u2019 applies to both MS patients and caregivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/columns\/2026\/03\/05\/pre-flight-safety-checklist-applies-both-ms-patients-caregivers\/\" title=\"The &#8216;pre-flight safety checklist&#8217; applies to both MS patients and caregivers\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Image-from-iOS-5-800x300.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"This banner image for Ben Hofmeister&#039;s column &quot;Chairborne&quot; features a wheelchair at left and a beach scene at right.\" style=\"margin: auto;margin-bottom: 15px;max-width: 100%\" data-wp-pid=\"109440\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a few years since I&#8217;ve traveled in an airplane. Flying commercially when you depend on a wheelchair for locomotion is apparently quite the nightmare. Between that and all the accessories I travel with, as long as the distance is reasonable, I&#8217;d rather just drive. The fact that I haven&#8217;t had anywhere to go [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/columns\/2026\/03\/05\/pre-flight-safety-checklist-applies-both-ms-patients-caregivers\/\">The &#8216;pre-flight safety checklist&#8217; applies to both MS patients and caregivers<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\">Multiple Sclerosis News Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/columns\/2026\/03\/05\/pre-flight-safety-checklist-applies-both-ms-patients-caregivers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a few years since I&#8217;ve traveled in an airplane. Flying commercially when you depend on a wheelchair for locomotion is apparently quite the nightmare. Between that and all the accessories I travel with, as long as the distance is reasonable, I&#8217;d rather just drive. The fact that I haven&#8217;t had anywhere to go&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,15,9,8,13,14,12,10],"class_list":["post-1526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multiple-sclerosis-research","tag-brain-repair","tag-marburg-type-ms","tag-ms","tag-multiple-sclerosis","tag-myelin","tag-neuroregeneration","tag-oligodendrocyte","tag-remyelination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}