Last night Dr Cassivi called to see how I was and make sure I was well enough to fly out for all my appointments Monday. He had just received word that they were canceling even more appointments, testing and surgeries that were considered routine and non emergent and wanted to touch base ASAP. He believed given the significance of the diagnosis and the requirement for high level multidisciplinary coordination that we should proceed with my appointments as scheduled on March 23. He felt that since I was healing well from surgery and my sodium was stable that it would be best to move forward as planned. He jokingly said I was going to be the keynote patient at the clinic Monday.... at least I think he was joking. Among all his advice on surviving traveling through Chicago during a pandemic, he suggested I disregard all my appointment times after my first one and just proceed from apt to apt since not many people will be around.
Let me tell you, the travel experience was unique for sure. At Norfolk International Airport there were more employees than travelers. One TSA agent said that they have about 300 passengers coming through today, usual its 25,000!
Security was saying that atlanta had to close an entire terminal to park grounded Delta planes.
Our flight to Chicago was “rerouted” or detoured because there is not enough air traffic controllers. Because of this detour we missed our connecting flight. We tried to just see if our plane was still here and of course it wasn't so we went to an AA desk one terminal down to get new boarding passed and the guy said "are you nelson" 😂
He knew our name because we were the ONLY passengers on that flight!!! They flew an empty plane to Rochester!!!
Chicago O’Hare was a ghost town. Groups of TSA agents stood around. Check points closed. Most restaurants closed. It was very odd! Finally after about a 4 hour layover we were able to finally get out of Chicago. Our flight had five other passengers- which were all airline employees. I am just grateful that domestic flights were not suspended!
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| Our almost private flight to MN |
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