Ended up having to postpone my surgery, due to the endless stress produced by poor communication from the hospital around the arrangements I should be making.
Anyway, apparently it’s not recommended to go into surgery while you are a crying mess of stress? So I guess this is for the best.
I didn’t know the exact guidelines around booking hotel accommodation and travel until the week before my surgery, which meant that several times I had to cancel all my bookings and make new ones. In London. One week before my trip.