Thank you all for taking the time to reply.
I am flying to Chicago, to visit my best friends. They live in Ohio, but it will be over-land once I land at Ord. Yep, I posted a similar question last year. I flew almost weekly from UK to Dublin, to care for my Mum, for 12 years. She passed just over a year ago, This was followed by a complicated recovery from an Appendix op, early Jan 2016, so I have had a difficult year.
I was relatively ok about THE FLIGHT, until I scanned the newspaper headline early this morning, hence my posting.
I sooooo want to fly on Friday, and believe it or not the re-assuring words I have received in the past helped me enormously with my flights to my Mum, whom I love to Heaven and back.
So thank you everyone, for your replies
Maddie