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Ticked Bucket List · Travel decision helper

Should I go, modify the plan, or postpone?

A calm way to decide when you live with chronic pain, fatigue, or invisible illness. This is not about “being brave.” It’s about choosing a plan your body can actually carry — and protecting the week after.

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Quick check: Define what “success” means, estimate the cost of a crash (body + life), and ask: how flexible is this plan? If it depends on a body you don’t currently have, modifying or postponing is often the kinder choice.

Educational planning support — not medical advice, diagnosis, or fitness-to-travel clearance. If you have new or rapidly worsening symptoms, seek urgent care locally and/or talk to your clinician.

1) What does “success” actually mean? Start here

You’re not deciding “travel” in general. You’re deciding this trip, in this season, with this body.

Aim for “good enough,” not perfection.

Pain, fatigue, mobility, sleep, migraines, gut, etc.

Work, caring roles, money, relationships, mental health.

2) Where is your baseline right now?

This is about the body and life you have today, not the one you’re hoping returns “by the time we fly.”

Stability, flares, recovery speed, sleep, stamina, symptoms.

If your life is already at capacity, travel has less room to be “expensive.”

Your best guess is fine if you can’t ask them yet.

3) Decide: Go · Modify · Postpone

Pick what you’re leaning toward today. You can change it later if your baseline changes.

List conditions that make “yes” safer.

Shorten, slow down, add buffers, change destination, reduce complexity.

Name the protective reason. This reduces guilt later.

Make it kind, factual, and usable.