@Sister
After I left hospital I stayed at the Cancer Council accommodation centre for rural and remote patients. I had to stay for some weeks. Was not allowed to fly home. It was July /August. I was so very homesick. On one of my walks around the area I discovered a bar and grill, the side courtyard of which had a boab tree in it! I walked daily to that cafe, threw my arms around the boab tree and sobbed my heart out. The staff, when they found out how far away I was from home, would bring me a coffee (gratis) and spend 5 minutes of their precious time on a homesick old lady. Did my heart the world of good.