I have just been following this thread and can see maybe I am not so strange. I flew my kids from Australia to UK in December and we had a great time with my mum. I am flying them over again as my dad turns 80 and we always planned a big family holiday and now I hope that the second stent will give my mum a new lease on life too so that we can have another wonderful family trip. This trip feels like a bonus but mum has been so unwell recently I was worried how she would cope. Fingers crossed for this stent .