A couple of years ago I was talking to my colleague who had traveled to the US from France.
“How was your flight?”
“Oh it was great! No bloating because I wear zee white tights.”
“The who and the what now?”
“On my flight from France to Boston I wear zose white compression tights.”
“Why?”
“Zey help to not bloat! I put zem on before I get on zee flight, drink a ton of water, zen when I land in Boston, POOF! No bloating. I’m perfectly fine!”
I thought nothing of it until a few months later when I had to fly to France myself. As I was packing I remembered my colleagues words and phoned my dad.
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“Dad?”
“Who is this?”
“It’s Lisa.”
“Oh. Hi.”
“Hi. So dad, when you had your hip and knee done did they make you wear those white tights?”
“Did they what?!”
Now would be a good time to tell you that my father is pretty much deaf.
“When you had your hip and knee replaced, did you have to wear the anti-embolism tights during your recovery?”
“Oh. Yeah yeah I had to wear those because I was inactive for so long. They didn’t want me to develop blood clots.”
“Right. Do you still have them?”
“I think they’re around here somewhere. Why?”
” ‘Kay thanks dad. See you this weekend.”
I snatched two pairs from my father’s sock drawer and wore them going to France and on the way back. And they totally work. Between drinking water for the entire 6+ hour flight and wearing the compression tights I landed and felt bloat free and not gross at all!
If you aren’t lucky enough to have a parent who’s had multiple joints replaced, don’t worry compression tights are pretty easy to find. The popular brands are Truform and Futuro. You can definitely find them at your local pharmacy or order them on the internet.
When I flew to China back in September my plane outfit consisted of black leggins, a long black shirt, a long light weight cotton sweater, a pashmina, orange sorbet colored Havianas and my white compression tights. I wore the tights over my leggins and I wore them proud. People gave me funny looks every time I went to get up to use the rest room and one woman laughed at me. But when we landed in Shanghai I felt refreshed and not at all like I’d been on a plane for 12+ hours and the woman who thought my tights were silly looked like she’d walked 100 miles of bad road.
I’m telling you. It’s the compression tights!
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