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Home Sweet Home?

So I have been back home for just over a month and it has been nice. It is nice to be in a familiar place - IN MY OWN BED around people I know, and have known for many years. The flight home from Australia was good, for the most part. I had to fly from Sydney to LA, from LA to Chicago and then Chicago to Toronto. Before we even took off in Sydney there was a medical emergency, an older woman had started to get sick, so we had to get off the run way and go back to the gate, get paramedics on the plane to get her off the plane then refuel. This took about an hour and half, now I had a VERY small window between my flight from LA to Chicago once we landed in LA I had to go through customs and re-check my baggage (thank you America). Long story short I had to run the length of LAX and by the time I got to my gate (after cutting a few lines, people are nice when they know you might miss your flight) they were calling my name over the intercom and about to close the door, almost like what you