Today, I flew 1800 km with my two small children to a remote northern village for work. Our bags were lost, leaving us without winter gear and only one change of clothes. Just to make things extra fun, we now all have uncontrollable vomiting and diarrhea. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I fell violently ill half an hour into a flight. I got sick so suddenly that I projectile vomited all over my clothes and the seat in front of me, and to top it all off, I also got diarrhea. Eight more hours to go. FML
Today, after a night of vomiting and diarrhea, my family forced me to our beach house for the night. I packed my bag and my mum said she put my bag in the car. We get there where we realize she forgot to put my bag in the car. Not a big deal I thought. Five minutes later I shat and vomited myself. FML
Today, on my airplane ride home, the woman next to me wasn't feeling too well. She pulled out the air sickness bag to throw up into and missed. Her vomit splattered all over the seat in front of her and all over me. We were both covered in puke. And that was only my first of two flights. FML
Today, I have four flights. I spent last night projectile vomiting with food poisoning. By the time I got to the airport it had progressed to liquid diarhea. Two flights in, I got my period. FML
Today, a toddler threw up on my backpack mid-flight. FML
Today, the two and a half hours it took our poorly air conditioned taxi to go 20 miles in stop-and-go traffic was highlighted by our son projectile vomiting all over my wife, a suitcase, and the car. It ended with me having to pay both for the ride, as well as for cleaning the inside of the taxi. FML
Today, I flew some 1,800km cross country for a work conference. The trip involved an Uber, two trains, the flight, a bus, and the conference itself. My shirt was inside out the whole time, and not one soul mentioned it. FML
Today, I got my own row on an almost full transatlantic flight. All it took was having food poisoning two hours into the flight. FML
Today, I was the only passenger on a completely booked flight to have all their luggage left behind in another country. FML
Today, my friend and I flew home from India ten days early. I got cholera and she got groped twice and followed back to our accommodations by a gang of men. So much for our exotic overseas trip… FML
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GhostFox 34
The last part sounds like you drank contaminated water, to be frank. I don't know what you are working as, so I would hope you had some sort of training about how to decontaminate water- but the fact you caught something makes me doubt that you did.
potatocouch 16
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HUGBUG 23
Real shitty situation
chirstinap325 23
Ahh sounds like a typical family vacation to me
RichardPencil 32
And your job is to fetch expensive scotch for your rather large boss? Is that what's troubling you, binky?
MD9 19
ohh..I feel sorry for you
potatocouch 16
But you have the greatest gift of all: internet.
GhostFox 34
The last part sounds like you drank contaminated water, to be frank. I don't know what you are working as, so I would hope you had some sort of training about how to decontaminate water- but the fact you caught something makes me doubt that you did.
nix1993 41
*edit* I managed to lean on my keyboard and post the result whilst trying to delete, feel free to ignore this utterly pointless comment.
GhostFox 34
Just to keep the from happening to anyone that reads this, purifying water instructions: Make sure your containers are clean- and that the storage containers are air tight and as close to sterile as possible. If the water has visible particles, strain them out either by buying filter or making your own. Purification tablets are more expensive, but more convenient in regards to time and space. Instructions vary depending on brand and strength, so make sure to read them. Keep in mind that they purify by using chemicals to kill the bacteria, so it isn't an ideal long term solution. If you boil water to purify it, you'll want to start with a clean pot and cold water. Bring the water up to a hard boil or and keep it boiling for at least one minute at sea level, and at least three if you are over 2,000ft above sea level. Longer is technically better, as the hotter he water gets, the less likely it is that pathogens will survive in it-but since OP's already caught something, it'd best to play safe by using longer boiling times. If the storage container is made out of plastic, make sure the water is room temperature before moving it, or you'll wind up with trace amounts of plastic in the water, if the bottle doesn't straight out melt or warp. Keep the water covered with either a FITTING lid to the pot, or clean cloth held in place by a rubber band around the lip of the pot while the water cools.
Lepisma 38
Or they caught it from another passenger or contaminated surface on the plane. My husband brought home a norovirus that way, same symptoms and incubation period, and no contaminated water required. I got it too within 24 hours and I'd been home the whole time. You don't always have to do something dumb to get sick.
GhostFox 34
Even if they didn't get it from the water, it'd be better to take steps to decontaminate their water unless they know 100% for certain that it wasn't the cause. Especially since there are now two immunocompromised small children that are losing water.
cootiequeen4444 11
did you fill out a missing bags claim? this would help the airlines contact you if your bag shows up somewhere? hopefully you put some sort of identifying of ownership marker on the luggage? Also since you flew in 1800 km, there is a chance you used different airlines in the process. it would be the airlines of the last leg of your trip that is responsible for the luggage. this is important in case you want to pursue compensation of the list luggage. In the United States, at the bare minimum, you can get your baggage fees refunded or even if the baggage fees was delayed for over 12 hours or so. I am unsure of how all non-American airlines handle things. One American Airlines also gives refunds for toiletries purchased in case of delayed luggage. I'm unsure if you posted the FML soon after arriving or not so there is maybe a chance it has been found by now? If not, I'd recommend shopping obviously. After the vomiting subsides for you and your children of course! Also if the vomiting is truly uncontrollable, I'd call a doctor for some advice. or see if there is a doctor that does home visits. as you too are I'll and.thus probably cannot take your children to a pediatrician yourself. might want to go with a regular doctor though so you can get looked at too a pediatrician would probably see you or advise you along with your children in some cases, like this one. More than likely it is just a bad stomach virus you got from another plane passenger. Probably they /just/ got over it before flying so they were still contagious. Though I hope you sought help if it lasted more than 24 hours or so. I hope you are doing much better with more attire by now OP and good luck with this job opportunity. It sounds like it must be an interesting or.at least unique one if you are required to go somewhere super remote. Or at least it is fun imagining what it might be lol
yerawizardlizzy 27
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say if OP agreed to fly such a distance away, they probably know how to handle it if something goes wrong. I'm sure they have already thought of everything you just mentioned.
cootiequeen4444 11
I couldn't fix that giant mess of a paragraph even if I wanted to. I tried to three times. It undid the little improvement I did the last time I tried (and failed to fix it). Did even freaking let me reply to say 'my bad' in reply format after the time ran out. It kept opening it like I could edit it - the tease! And seriously,.what is up with the pointless block of text on top, telling me what I wrote and also blocking the editable version of the same thing - what I wrote? so frustrated. ugh.
Thefruitpies 2
Did you by any chance sneeze at the mall recently?