The emergency trip home

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I will have to do this at some point in the coming months

I'm not far (flight is 1.5hrs) but how does it work in practice? Do you get "the call" then grab a bag then head to the airport and get some help from someone there to book you a flight? Or do you faff around looking at the airlines online? Can you even book online at such short notice? What if there are no late flights???

Then when you're blubbering your way through the airport, do you just try to hold it together and not think about it? Or do you tell someone? Is there someone who can help in such situations?

I'm a good traveller and fly regularly, but always planned at least a a few days in advance and without being heartbroken but I can't get my head around the logistics of this journey.

mountain that sounds tough, so sorry to hear about your dad. And bless you for your offers of help, that's v kind.

I think we have some time before I need to worry about this in practice. Since we've know dad's ill I've avoided thinking too far into the future. But my ocd planner tendencies had to pop up somewhere I guess, but at least now I feel semi-prepared (from a practical viewpoint anyway).

Before we moved abroad, I always worried about my dad falling ill. Now it's happened. I can't let myself think that I've somehow jinxed things, I'm trying to think that the illness knew it could come out now that we were happily settled and that it wouldn't stop us going off and doing what we wanted to do (which is what would've happened if we'd still been in the UK and got the diagnosis).

I'm rambling now. Thank you all for the support.

Sounds like you have a lovely relationship with your Dad (hope you do, at least). I’m sure he’d be very proud of you making the move you did. Keep in touch with him and your family- that’s how he’ll know you love him.
My brother didn’t get home from abroad in time for my mum (bloody flight delay)but he bloody tried. And she knew he was trying. A silly boring flight delay didn’t diminish the love we all had for each other.

Thanks shhh I do think he's pretty great. He's not perfect by any means but that's kind of what I love.

I hope he's proud. He was gutted when we moved tbh, really sad to not be close to our dc (10 min walk from our house in the uk to his).