Disability

First, did you check to see if that swelling was not due to something more serious like DVT (deep vein thrombosis)? That can happen on long flights. The longest flight I ever took was 8 hours between Honolulu and Houston. But again, travel is difficult even then. When I visited my parents in Whitefish, Montana, I had to take two flights, one from Tampa to Denver, then Denver to Kalispell (about 45 minutes away from where they live), and that was after I had to take Lyft from Lakeland to Tampa, all while trying to avoid weather that could trap me along the way. But I guess it could be worse. When I was in Europe, we were heading up to Normandie, France while my dad was stationed in Naples (Napoli as it is called there), Italy. The plan was to fly from Naples to Milan, then Milan to Paris. When we got to Milan, I saw on the departures screen that due to an air traffic controller strike, our flight was cancelled. So we were stuck in Milan for 4 hours, then we took 2 vans, drove from Milan, past Mont Blanc, got to Paris around 7 pm CEST, picked up someone there, and didn't go to I believe it was Caen until 1 am that morning. After all that, we drove to Dijon, stayed overnight, drove back to Milan, and our flight to Naples was delayed. So all told, with all the combined travel, we probably could have flown from Washington DC to Wellington, New Zealand and back in the amount of time we traveled. But then again, we were lucky to have avoided flying in 2010 when Eyjafjallajökull (trying saying that many times fast, it literally means "glacier of the mountains of the islands" in Icelandic) erupted in Iceland. That's when all flights in Europe were essentially grounded due to volcanic ash.