Cancer patient criticizes treatment by TSA A woman dying of leukemia hopes her embarrassing airport experience changes the way the Transportation Security Administration treats travelers with medical conditions. Michelle Dunaj, 34, was departing for Hawaii on Oct. 2 on what she expects will be the last trip of her life. The Roseville, Mich., woman thought she had prepared by calling the airline ahead of time, asking for a wheelchair, carrying documentation for her feeding tubes and prescriptions for all her medications, including five bags of saline solution. But Dunaj said she received a full pat-down in the security line at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Washington state and had to lift her shirt and pull back bandages so agents could get a good look. She said people in line got a look too. "My issue is: It was in front of everyone, and everyone was looking at me like I was a criminal or like I was doing something wrong," Dunaj told the Associated Press on Tuesday. It shouldn't have been in front of everyone. Dunaj said a female agent performed the pat-down and asked her to lift her shirt after feeling the tubes going into Dunaj's chest and abdomen. Dunaj said her suggestion for a more private pat-down was dismissed. She said another agent punctured one of her saline bags, ruining it. "I didn't want to start getting upset and swearing and causing more of a scene or issue," Dunaj said. But it definitely wasn't handled properly. Dunaj said that after her pat-down, she was asked to move along, as if she were responsible for holding up the line. "I thought that was a little rude," she said. After Dunaj told her story on Seattle's KOMO-TV, the TSA started looking into the situation, spokeswoman Lorie Dankers said. "Anytime a passenger requests a private screening, they should be granted one," Dankers said. Dunaj, who will enter hospice care when she returns to Michigan on Oct. 17, doesn't regret the trip, despite the hassles. "Hawaii was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen," she said. 1 on my bucket list.