I have to agree that being close to your parents is a very good thing. I lived at a 16 hour flight away from my parents when my father had an “episode” that put him on a ventilator in a coma for 6 months. I came back once when he went into the coma and once more when a decision had to be made about removing him from the ventilator. Fortunately, he survived being removed from the machine and woke up about 2 weeks after that. Being close is a very, very good thing!