Hi
I will be going away for several months possibly over the next few months and wondered if anyone has any tips they would like to share with me.
I will be away for at least 3 months or it could be up to 5/6 months. I don't have an exact date yet.
I have bought hand luggage to suit the airline I will be flying with. I don't intend taking hold luggage as I won't be able to manage it.
A friend is flying with me to my destination and she will fly back a day later. I am not taking luggage cos I need to bring wheelchair/crutches and can't manage everything.
Everything else I need will be shipped via a courier service to arrive the day after I do. I will have laundry facilities available to me
When I am ready to return home, a friend will fly to come and meet me and main luggage will be couriered home OR alternate option is another friend will hire out a motorhome and come and collect me which means don't need to courier luggage as it can all go in it. I would be paying for the hire and the ferry.
I have organised a rota of people to come in and out of the house to keep things right and to keep the cat fed/watered/scooped and played with.
My post will be redirected to a friends house. She has agreed to open things and read to me down skype calls. She will also be getting a spare card for my bank account (there will be a limit on it) as she will be maintaining bills, electric top-ups, putting out the bins for the first couple of weeks, checking answering machine for any messages,
So as not to drip feed its a hospital admission via the NHS in a different country to where I live so not a holiday (I wish).
That's why I don't have an exact date, as I am waiting on the phone call to say a bed is coming up with up to a weeks notice as someone is coming to the end of their treatment.
Any tips would be appreciated or thoughts on what to bring. I have a quantity of nightwear and loungewear and hopefully will be able to leave the ward occasionally and go into the city centre.
I have posted vaguely about this before and I am leaving the details on this vague as I don't want to out myself. I know you will all understand.
Thanks in advance for any advice