Took my mask off on the aeroplane AIBU

[Tsubasa1]

I was on a 5-hour flight recently alone with my two kids under 3. I once every few years might suffer from travel sickness and unfortunately on this day it was the worst I've ever had. I believe it may have been caused by having to wear the mask on the aeroplane. I used 20+ sickbags and felt better during the last hour (vomited for 4 hours, 5th hour was better).
I felt really bad but after I started vomiting I couldn't physically put my mask on because I couldn't breath and it made me gag. The air stewards were furiously coming and telling me to put my mask on every 5-10 mins. I had tears in my eyes during all of this and to be honest I can't comprehend how little compassion they had. They kept coming until I firmly said I would be putting my mask on when I felt better. I was keeping my distance from everyone and had no one sitting in front of me, behind or next to me (apart from my children). I didn't have a fever and it had I had been checked before boarding the plane. AIBU to think there was no reason to harrass me while I was throwing up with my face in a bag? Are you scared of people who don't wear masks? Would you go up to someone ill and tell them to put their mask on?

I want to do a study into how much the population behaving like arseholes has increased due to Covid. Based on this thread I'm going upwards of 60% minimum

I think these people were always there. Covid doesn't cause people to be arseholes. But it does give arseholes a single cause to set their teeth into, so they're more noticeable right now.

@TheFirstRuleOfAIBUClub Thu 23-Jul-20 19:15:01
Oh please please please can this thread not end up being all about hooves like so many previous threads.

Not quite all about hooves this time. She has an able helper who is also determined to take over, and being fair being even nastier than hooves, and that is Mathanxiety.

There's a few others vying for the spot but I don't think anyone beats these two for being selfish. They also manage to 'misread' deliberately the OP hugely.

Op says 'rarely' the sanctimonious read 'likely to' being just one example.

And don’t even think of travelling as a single mother.

I will be soon. Complete with my health conditions 'n'all...

I hope it goes well 😊

Ffs this pandemic has brought out the absolute worst in some people! The poor woman was vomiting for four hours while caring for 2 small children. Yes im sure it wasnt pleasant for the other passengers but god it wouldnt have been a walk in the park for op either! Im sure had she realised she would be so unwell she would have taken travel sickness pills. As for saying she shouldn't be flying you have no idea why she was she could have been attending a funeral or visiting a sick relative. People are really lacking in compassion on this thread and in rl since covid. The cabin crew were prob just doing what they have been told to do op but they should have applied their common sense and of course shown some compassion obviously you cannot vomit through a mask! Hope you are feeling better now.

I hope it goes well 😊

I'll come back on post on here if it doesn't 🤦‍♀️😂

If you vomit you must put your kids up for adoption I’m afraid

@KarenKarendson

I hope it goes well 😊

I'll come back on post on here if it doesn't 🤦‍♀️😂

And if it does come back and tell us about all the awful people you met along the way.

Poor you @Tsubasa1, my sympathies. I get car/sea sick and I cannot imagine that, plus mask, plus a baby on my lap.

Yes the virus is airborne but with close to 100% probability (no fever no symptoms all kids also healthy) you were not infecting anyone.

I wear a mask in shops and on public/private transport but you were definitely NOT unreasonable. Maybe get medication for your journey home. Hope you are better.

@PablosHoney

The ironic thing is, I’m not anti mask and I wear one I’m just anti arsehole and anti hysteria.

This.

@Piggywaspushed oh no, seriously? I brought 3 boxes before lockdown so have a good supply at the moment. I might have to pop down to Boots tomorrow and ask. I plan my life around my hormonal migraines, this is really not good news.

@SecretSpAD

My issue with op isn't particularly about the mask. It's about her vomiting twenty times which is an aerosolising process, something that could have been avoided by taking some medication. If she had Covid she has put every other passenger on the plane in risk and I don't think that's acceptable.

Oh god OP, how dare you be so selfish and entitled as to not have the foresight to know you would get travel sick when you don't usually, therefore not have the foresight to take pills and then decide to vomit. We all know that vomiting copiously is just a fab way to pass the time on a flight. Anyone would think that you either enjoy it so much that you couldn't bear to miss this opportunity or you didn't know it was going to happen.

Fucks sake.

I have Crohn's disease. If I get an attack I can go to the toilet up to thirty times a day or be stuck in the toilet for hours. Sometimes this can come out of the blue with no warning. Therefore, if I'm traveling anywhere by plane or train or on s long car journey, I take medication to stop me from going because one of my dears is getting caught in turbulence and not being able to get up to go to the toilet. We had seat belt sign on for five hours flying to Florida once and no one was allowed to use the toilet. So because I might have this happen I do everything I can to stop it happening. Should I just not bother then in future? Presumably other passengers would not have a problem with me having copious diarrhoea in my seat right? Certainly not you or any of the other posters who think op was fine.

I know. I have lost Motilium, Ranitidine and now (hopefully not) Buccastem.

I can't buy it online but also no evidence it's been withdrawn.

I get travel sickness and vertigo and vomiting after lack of sleep : Buccastem is a godsend also for hangovers

I have IBD and the day I fell ill on a plane I’d taken several Imodium as I always do whenever I go anywhere like that but I still had diarrhoea so if I’d shat myself I could sit atop my shit like a archangel because I took precautions 😊

You poor thing, I completely empathise as a person who’s horrendously travel sick.
I have tried everything the doctor and pharmacist can suggest, wrist bands, homeopathic remedies etc.
I rarely fly now because of it.
Fingers crossed you have a better flight next time op.

@Piggywaspushed that sounds horrible, spinny head sea sick nausea is the worst. I will report back tomorrow if this thread doesn’t get deleted before then!

I think the crew should have taken OP and her children to the galley as she was being violently sick.

@PablosHoney

I have IBD and the day I fell ill on a plane I’d taken several Imodium as I always do whenever I go anywhere like that but I still had diarrhoea so if I’d shat myself I could sit atop my shit like a archangel because I took precautions 😊

But at least you made an attempt to prevent it.

And all of you who are smuggly judgemental just be extremely grateful that you don’t have travel sickness, it’s hell.

Oh bloody hell Hooves, we all know your entire medical history because you put it on every single thread.

Thanks llama. Fingers crossed!!

Oh you poor thing - if I'd been on the same flight I would have ended up being sick as well - it makes me sick when someone is vomiting (can't help it).

Is there anything you can take for travel sickness? I wonder if you'd be allowed to take a sleeping tablet before boarding or something. I'm now worried got a flight booked for late September which probably won't be cancelled so am gonna go - but I'm now worried about being sick if someone else is sick on the flight - oh blimey!

I actually think it's a great time to fly. All, or at least most, of the people flying will have a fairly relaxed attitude as I am sure all the YABU posters on here won't be going near a plane for the next 6/12/maybe 36 months.

A PP said 'if you don't wear a mask in a shop or public transport you are a huge health risk to everyone else.'

That only applies if you have the bug, which last time I looked was around 1 in 4000. At least some of those will be ill in bed, if we say half that means perhaps 1 in 8,000. Mmmm. So a 1 in 8000 chance of coming into contact with someone with it and then a pretty good chance of not getting it as they are - on average - passing it on to less than 1 person and that is likely to be someone they have spent some time with AND then even with those odds, I would have a good chance of having a mild or asymptomatic infection.

Nah, I'll wear the mask if/when I have to but I'm certainly not worried about what anyone else does.

I had a horrendous migraine and was sick in the doctors and on the way home.. people veer away, they don’t like vomiting people.. even if you are tidy about it.
Probably a primeval thing, where puke can mean Contagion..
my DS was with me and I was at the gps for anti emetics. It is grim managing children when one is ill.
Op hope you can get some good meds next time.

Ps chundering was years ago , but can imagine the horror of public chundering in these anxious times.