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.
them: Please relax the weeks before your surgery.
also them: Please conform to the ever increasing list of requirements we put on you, which keep invalidating your travel and hotel arrangements.
Me: Cool, cool, cool. So I just wait at the border for the results, hope they're a little early, and then show 'em in the seconds long time window that they're valid?