Originally Posted by
rollthere
I don't know if your parents are able to fly first class, but I have seen people in that exact situation use the forward most lav near the cockpit and the FA will stand there and provide some privacy assistance. Now that I think of it, if you're not able to secure a wide-body flight on UA, I believe WN (that probably has great service between MDW and HOU ) is pretty good about allocating the front row for disabled passengers and that would allow them access to the forward most lav and some FA assistance.
Observation from a United TPAC flight:
It turns out there was a handicapped lav up front but we didn't find this out until arrival. My wife was hurt and needed help, we were using one of the ordinary lavs in back.
The female FAs were very good about blocking in order to provide what privacy they could. The male FAs didn't even try.