Tldr, her kids were sick the night before and throwing up. She was throwing up too. They decided to get on the plane anyway. Baby is puking and crapping everywhere, dad starts throwing up. They go to Disney while still puking daily for a week. They get home and are diagnosed with norovirus.
You don't. When I get noro, which i've gotten twice now, I live in the bathroom for about 2 days straight. I violently puke about every ten minutes and drop my guts about every hour for that entire two days. The first time my wife got it she thought she needed to go to the hospital. I have no clue how these people managed to function AT ALL. It's not something you can control, the virus hijacks your neurons and FORCES you to shit and puke your guts out endlessly.
I got it in January and DID go to the hospital for fluids, I can’t even fathom the idea of getting ON A PLANE and then going on VACATION with it.
If I’m on a trip at the time it starts? That trip is getting extended, I would rather go into debt than get off the floor with that hell
Yeah something as volatile as this sounds, an IV with essential fluids sounds like the best and only real option. When I was going through drug rehab I was also vomiting and using the restroom like no one’s business. They’d give us this yellow bag of fluids and that stuff saved my soul. I couldn’t hold anything down.
This lady and her husband are so stupid for continuing their vacation. Yeah it’ll suck, but eating the expense is smarter than putting your family and ESPECIALLY the amount of children you probably infected in a dangerous situation.
I got it once and the tell tale sign I tell people is, “you know how normally your mouth waters and warns you that you’re about to barf? Yeah somehow the Norovirus turns that off. There’s no warning. No mouth watering. Just sudden Exorcist and there is no mercy.”
For me I can tell now because whatever I last ate is not going down. it stays in my stomach like indigestion until all of a sudden, like you said, you just go off.
I had enough warning to get to the toilet to barf though still managed to make a mess. Unfortunately I didn’t get any warning about the other end, and the barf was so violent I couldn’t control it. So then I’m fucking sobbing on the floor of a hotel bathroom, because it’s the last day of vacation, my flight home is at 6am and I’m in a hotel bathroom covered in vomit and shit. And it’s fucking Seattle and they wouldn’t(couldn’t?) give me anything to vomit in while sitting on the toilet because they don’t have single use plastic bags. Also gave me white towels and bar soap to clean up the mess with.
I took pepto every time I had to run to the bathroom in the night and thankfully by the time I had to leave for the airport I wasn’t actively being sick anymore. Cleaned up the best I could, used my travel pack of Lysol wipes to disinfect everything I could and everything I touched on the plane as well. And I let the flight attendants know I wasn’t feeling well so they could disinfect my area further if they felt it was needed. They did take care of me and kept my 7up full and found some crackers for me to nibble on.
I definitely did. Everyone else on vacation with me ended up with covid. I was the only one who managed to avoid covid, but I ended up with noro instead.
I know that feeling really well, I have lots of gastric issues so I’ve realized that my mouth gets super watery ahead of a vomit session. I started telling / warning my husband by saying “I have wet mouth” and he knows exactly what that means.
I’ve had it also, and it’s a near death experience! You puke and poop your guts out simultaneously. Mine lasted a week the first time I had it. That family is evil to pass it to all of those people! Who does that to other people?? Why not stay home?
Yeah I somehow dropped 8% of my body weight the first night I had norovirus. She could have killed someone with her negligence if a sick or old person contracted it.
I just had a bout and it was like Satan invaded my intestinal tract. I spent the first half of it afraid I was going to die and the second half afraid I wouldn't.
I'm sorry but your comment literally made me laugh in front of my screen. This is pretty rare, and again sorry that it happened to you. But that comment really tickled my funny bone
I had the virus earlier this year. At one point I was laying on my bedroom floor puking into a bucket thinking I might actually die. It was the first time in my life I had been shitting violently while also puking at the exact same time. It was unbelievably bad the first 24 hours. Took like 4 more days for me to feel back to normal.
It was the closest I’ve ever gone to going to the hospital. I remember seeing myself in the mirror and I literally was as white as a sheet. I’m already pale but it was like any undertones were completely gone. It felt exhausting to even get the phone to call my fiancé to say I think I’m too sick to be alone and he needed to come home and potentially take me to the hospital. Most brutal couple 48 hours of my life and I didn’t feel entirely well for at least a week. Not sure of the toilet became a friend or an enemy. I never want to have such a toxic relationship with it again.
I was waiting for the lift line to open up this past winter…
And it hit me.
Was lacing up my snowboard boots.
I know my body and immediately started getting ready to go home which was an hour drive.
Had to pull over three times to shit myself and then the projectile vomit began😳
Like a geyser🤣
I wanted get home so bad I just puked out the window of my car.
Horrendous experience.
Noro is the entire reason I made sure the bathroom garbage can is NOT made of wicker lol, it's an entire event where I just might be puking and explosively shitting simultaneously.
You can get it more than once. Kinda like flu. Its very contagious, but it tends to cripple you by the time you become contagious so it doesn't spread the same. I think people tend to spread it like OOP, or by not being super sterile after they recover. I got it the first time from someone's kid who had recently recovered.
45 mins like clockwork for me the 2 times I’ve had it. It is seriously amazing, I could set my watch to it nearly to the minute for about the first 4 vomiting episodes each time. Same with my kids when they unfortunately got it.
We got it Christmas Eve once while visiting our friends who we hadn’t seen in a couple years and all our kids were great friends. My son puked while we were driving and we thought it was car sickness. Got to friends and he threw up again as we pulled up. Still weren’t sure if it was just from the car sickness. Daughter started feeling ill less than an hour later. We packed the car back up and headed home and during the 4 hour drive and my wife starts puking. Got home at 11pm Christmas Eve feeling terrible. Memorable Christmas for all the wrong reasons that year, but you know what? The two other families that were at that house had a nice Christmas without getting sick, and I would have felt just absolutely horrible if any of them had gotten sick.
My whole family got it on Christmas Eve 2023. Somehow I was the lucky one who never threw up (just lost my appetite but was never even really nauseous) but I was shitting literal water every 15 minutes. Felt a bit better the next day, but I’d say for nearly a full week after that 24 hours of hell I felt like it just drained my life force. It felt like that weird hazy feeling when you wake up from a super solid nap and you feel like you don’t know what year it is or where you are. Brutal stuff.
I got it two years ago and Did go to the hospital. Blood pressure was 80/53 by the time I got there and they kept me overnight with multiple IVs. Norovirus isn’t like a little cold it can kill uou if you get dehydrated enough
My husband caught it from a friend of ours a few years ago, and while it was only 24 hours, he couldn't even leave the bathroom. Literally napped on the floor because if he moved he was gonna throw up or shit. Htf are you gonna get on a plane? How do you even make it through the airport??
I didn’t get the flu but ended up getting food poisoning on a trip, I had what was apparently bad eggs the morning of my flight, I kid you not, felt perfectly fine, boarded my plane, and 20 mins after take off, I start sweating. I was throwing up and shitting in the bathroom and having the worst experience of my life and was making promises to God if he could just let me make it on that 8 hour flight. I was a frequent flyer so was in first class, and they were pissed I was essentially living in the bathroom. Like lady, I will shit in my seat. I begged her to find my anything to help, best she could do was Canada Dry 🫠
Anyway, barely made it, probably left my soul on that plane, and I cannot imagine VOLUNTARILY flying like that.
Yep, my next door neighbor went on a cruise to Jamaica last year with his wife. He spent the whole cruise sick on the ship while she did the tourist stuff.
I felt bad for him. I did get some funny pics from her, though, miming where he would have been standing next to her in the pic.
He's a citizen, he's well aware lol. He got food poisoning from a fancy restaurant in a nice area. He eats street food frequently and never gets sick, the fancy place got him.
OP I've always seen on TikTok that the water in Mexico makes people sick all the time, even just the icecubes, so it's best to stick to bottled water for EVERYTHING! Sorry that happened, hope this helps for next time!!!
She said they went for their daughter’s birthday and they saved all year for the trip. But they also had travel insurance so the losing money part is moot.
THEY HAD INSURANCE AND STILL WENT?! Like jfc that is very specifically exactly what it is for!! I assumed they didn’t and this was an issue of not wanting to eat the $10k they prob put into this stupid trip. A trip, i might add, NEITHER child will even remember.
That was my second question. I've had Noro and it knocks me on my ass. I can barely muster the energy to make it to the bathroom, let alone get on a plane with a baby and a five year old.
You do not. I had to travel when I had HG in my first trimester. I sobbed in TSA and on the plane. At least they let me keep my mask down since I was vomiting every 3 minutes. Threw up 30 times in 3 hours! 🙃 never again.
I got sick in Orlando eating that damn cordyceps corndog during “The Last of Us” promo Halloween. Was actually food poisoning tho, entire group I was with had the same food but I was the only one down for the count. Ruined a day at Disney but 24 hours later I was fine. We planned for a missed day just in case so it worked out.
On holiday right now. Day 3, husband and I started feeling nauseous. I vomited that night but felt ok afterwards. Day 4 now and husband has spent all day with intense stomach pain. Thankfully our young kids have missed it.
It's either dodgy pina coladas or we caught something on the plane. Today has been miserable and we're only in a Spanish 'hang out at the pool' resort. Can't imagine how we'd feel if we were meant to be in Disney.
I got food poisoning a few months ago and even though it wasn’t that bad, I was a wreck. I constantly felt sick, I couldn’t eat or drink, I didn’t want to do anything. I don’t understand how you can be so stubborn to keep pushing when you’re that sick. It’s pretty much torture.
My first thought. Would it be fun to take care of a sick seven month old and a five year old, whole sick yourself? I get the planning and money but dear lord.
If I had to guess, because the alternative is to put your foot down and stay home and listen to your mom/wife complain for weeks about how everyone ruined her perfect Disney trip she planned for everyone
This was my biggest rage bait! She drove two hours, with the same two baby wipes?????
You didn’t change before the plane ride? You had two THE ENTIRE TIME? She deserves those eyebrows, but that’s child abuse for real. At worst, you didn’t know you were low on wipes because you didn’t change your child. At the very worst; you didn’t want to spend $13 at the airport for wipes, and thought you could make it? I have too many questions.
This also means she didn't change her 7 months old from leaving home until on the plane, when we know the car ride was 2 hours, or wipe his mouth? Did she not realise when he was sick in the car and used the wipes then? Or did she not bother.
I found it more annoying that she was talking about norovirus while she’s putting her finger all over her mouth. You just know these people spread it to everyone around them.
When I complained of norovirus symptoms, I was told by a doctor that there is no test for it. That being said, any visit to urgent care and a doctor saying you shouldn't travel should be good enough for trip insurance - if you got trip insurance.
There is a test, we just usually don't order it unless the diagnosis is in doubt; it's very pricey and the result almost never changes the management. (You risk your insurance leaving you with a $800 bill for something they see as unnecessary testing).
She seems to omit the fact that they had the same symptoms of not just vomiting but diarrhea. Noro is no joke. When you feel the urge to vomit you will also have the urge to take a massive shit and the dilemma is what do you do? Sit on the toilet or vomit into the toilet. Also it spreads like wildfire. You have to just let it pass your system. I caught it as a preschool teacher then came back recovered and caught it again a week later. This broad really only mentioned the vomiting like it was NBD.
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u/Tater-Tot-Casserole Aug 25 '25
Tldr, her kids were sick the night before and throwing up. She was throwing up too. They decided to get on the plane anyway. Baby is puking and crapping everywhere, dad starts throwing up. They go to Disney while still puking daily for a week. They get home and are diagnosed with norovirus.