My wife and I had plane tickets to go visit my youngest son in Evansville, Indiana. He has Crohn's disease and suffered for many years from major depression and generalized anxiety disorder, finally mustering up the gumption to move out of the house and out on his own in July of last year. He really wanted me to see his place and his workplace and his town; he wanted me to know in a more intimate way what his life was like and, I suppose, to be very proud of how he has been faring since he moved out. I was looking forward to sharing that with him. We were scheduled to go in April. This trip is almost certainly off.
We also had plane tickets to go out to my home town in June for a family reunion. My dad will be 87 in May, and he really wanted to get the whole family together. Probably not going to happen.
Compared with BostonDevil and Deslok (and probably others), this stuff, I'm sure, will seem petty. Maybe it is. It's still sad to lose out on it.
My best to those of you that have REAL reasons to complain.
"We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust