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?

@AmiSpan

Ive just come off a four hour flight and the amount of people wearing their masks around their chins was ridiculous.

There were quite a few people around us who made eating a bag of crisps last two hours! 😂😂

I hope you feel better now OP.

Oh how clever of you all.

Maybe go and post your comment on the thread where people claim they can't wear masks but fear they'll be lumped in with people who won't wear masks. They also can't believe people will just not wear masks when they are able to do so.

I see the mask fascists are out in force again.

I get sick on ferries. I can't take travel sickness tablets at all, their mechanism of action (they work on dopamine receptors) is not compatiable with my neurological condition.

I am planning to travel as I am legally entitled to do and I'm not planning to barf through a fucking mask.

OP I am so sorry, what a horrendous experience, a little bit of kindness from the cabin crew would have gone a long way and you got the exact opposite.

You are coming across all princess-y here op. If I was another passenger I would have been livid. The fact is that you stopped vomiting, so put your mask back on simple as. If you want it all to be about you I suggest you get your own private jet.

YABU.

If you want it all to be about you I suggest you get your own private jet.

Really one could say the same about any of you having a tantrum about other people not being able to wear masks.

The fact is that you stopped vomiting, so put your mask back on simple as.

so closing the stable door after the horse has bolted...

Has anyone even stop to imagine what it might be like to be vomiting badly whilst looking after two under 3 on a 5-hour plane...

Have you done the return journey @Tsubasa1?

You poor thing OP, that must have been awful.

I think people should wear masks whenever possible, but obviously you can't wear them when you're throwing up, and I'd expect the cabin crew to at least leave you to it.

I hope you're feeling better now.

BTW my 19 year old, about a year ago, started getting travel sick when she flies, after never once having thrown up on a flight before she turned 18.

@MaxNormal

I see the mask fascists are out in force again.

I get sick on ferries. I can't take travel sickness tablets at all, their mechanism of action (they work on dopamine receptors) is not compatiable with my neurological condition.

I am planning to travel as I am legally entitled to do and I'm not planning to barf through a fucking mask.

OP I am so sorry, what a horrendous experience, a little bit of kindness from the cabin crew would have gone a long way and you got the exact opposite.

There's different classes of antiemetics. You do have the dopamine antagonists (prochlorperazine is the one you can buy over the counter) and there are others such as antihistamine (promethazine otherwise known as phenergan) so please don't inflict your puking on other people.

Or pay for a private cabin where you can throw up all you like.

@Viviennemary

Wear a mask. If not dont travel. It isn't rocket science. Everybody's got a reason why the rules don't apply to them. When you stopped vomiting you should have put the mask back on.

Seriously, where's your compassion. She spent 4 hours vomiting there was literally no point putting it back on for the last hour and risking more sickness.

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.

OP you did your best to survive a shitty situation that you had no control over. Juggling two young DC on any flight at any time is difficult - I did it frequently when the DC were young and aged about 12 years on each flight- let alone becoming so unwell unexpectedly. On one of our flights we were sat on the runwayfor about 4 hours before takeoff, the woman behind me actually ended up taking the youngest off me so I could play with the oldest while she rocked him to sleep. If she'd not done that I think I'd have just laid down and cried with the stress of it all.

Of course vomiting isn't nice - of course the staff were concerned. But there's concerned and then there's arsehole.

Entertaining travel plans during a pandemic while at the same time knowing you are likely to be sick and that travel sickness pills can't be used is surely the epitome, the very definition in fact, of 'it's all about me', @MaxNormal

Vomiting can be a symptom of Coronavirus so maybe some people were concerned you might have it.

You have suffered travel sickness previously, so you knew it was a risk. You should have taken medication prior to flying. You were spewing bodily fluids in a confined space during a pandemic of an airborne virus - a situation that could have been prevented as you had all the knowledge you needed prior to flying. YABU.

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.

Totally agree. People are just horrible. Shouting about murderers, shopping their neighbours, making up their own rules, "shaming" people when they have no idea about their circumstances, telling people who can't wear a mask to stay at home.

That's the disgusting bit.

OP you did your best to survive a shitty situation that you had no control over.

Ridiculous.

We have yet to hear the compelling reason she undertook this flight.

Until we do, we can assume she had control over the choice of flying during a pandemic despite knowing she was likely to vomit.

Don't take it so personally, it's their job. They will be held accountable if they are seen to allow passengers to sit without masks. I fell asleep once on a flight and was woken by a stewardess shaking me violently and hissing "do you not love your son?!" When I came to my senses I realized that (sleeping) ds did not have his seat belt on and the seat belt sign had come on whilst we were asleep

The problem is that me wearing a mask protects you mostly not me! Obviously you can't wear one while vomiting but it's essential everyone wears one because otherwise the mask wearers all the discomfort and no benefit. Proper masks are fine for asthma, copd etc too - ask a medical professional. My friend is a gp and is refusing exemptions because they simply aren't needed unless it's psychological/disability related and then the companion (in a plane context) can help with putting it on. They are horrible, I'm wearing one now and very annoyed that half the train (under 30's mostly) aren't wearing masks.

Do you not find the idea of infecting others with a potentially deadly virus 'disgusting' then, @SockYarn?

Some careless person took no precautions and gave it to my sister. I call that disgusting.

We have yet to hear the compelling reason she undertook this flight.

Why do you feel entitled to this information? It doesn't matter why she was flying, unless of course I missed the memo where complete strangers got to decide who was worthy of travelling.

OP had travel sickness. When you're being sick, in an aircraft, there's precious little you can do. All the hindsight about how she should have taken tablets, or should have done X or Z doesn't help when you're in that aircraft, trying to look after two children and puking. Miserable.

And she doesn't have Covid so she couldn't have infected anyone with anything. I would imagine that something like 99.9% of people who cough don't have Covid, people who puke don't have Covid, people who have a whole host of other symptoms don't have Covid either because there are hundreds and thousands of other reasons why people might be sick.

Anyway. A lot of people are using Covid as an excuse to behave like total dicks.

Why does it matter why OP was flying? She is perfectly entitled to do so. No laws about leaving the country, or going to another country. She doesn't need to justify the flight to randomers on MN.

OP I hope that if you're on a return flight that you get a nicer flight crew.

Has anyone even stop to imagine what it might be like to be vomiting badly whilst looking after two under 3 on a 5-hour plane...

The person who should have stopped and tried to imagine this before making travel plans was the one with actual responsibility for the children, who would have been left to the care of possibly covid-positive strangers on the plane if their mother had passed out or become severely dehydrated and unable to care for them.

Why anyone who suffers from travel sickness would even consider flying in sole charge of small children is beyond me.

You have suffered travel sickness previously.

Even outside of a pandemic, you would have been unreasonable to travel alone with two very young children in that situation.

In a pandemic where one of the symptoms can be vomiting, and where if you turned out to have the illness you would have spread it everywhere with vomiting (with or without a mask), you were being unreasonable to travel in the first place alone with small children and without medication.

What a grim and scary flight you condemned everyone else to, either an awful start to a holiday or a terrifying trip for someone who had no choice but to reluctantly travel.

@mathanxiety

Entertaining travel plans during a pandemic while at the same time knowing you are likely to be sick and that travel sickness pills can't be used is surely the epitome, the very definition in fact, of 'it's all about me', *@MaxNormal*

In OP's own words she suffers this roughly every five years or so. This isn't "likely to be sick" at all - any one of the passengers on that flight could have developed travel sickness since their last flight and experienced the same awful scenario.

My sister has travel sickness - she has bands and meds and all kinds of wizardry. There are times she has no choice but to travel and times when all the potions in the world don't fix it. OP isn't routinely sick on planes, so I really don't see how OP is behaving selfishly or disgustingly.

If OP knew without question she'd spend 5 hours with two small children in a confined space feeling like shit, do you truly believe she'd have gone? This virus is awful, people taking liberties with other people's heath when they could choose an alternative are arseholes. But beating OP over the head for something she didn't know was going to happen is ridiculous.

A) sometimes people forget stuff if it’s not something that’s happened in years especially
B) sometimes sickness tablets don’t work, they help my daughter but my son it doesn’t seem to do anything
C) they can make you drowsy which with 2 small kids alone is far from ideal
D) you don’t know the flight was or wasn’t essential.

@Hearhoovesthinkzebras why are you being so rude? I wore my mask the full time and was expressing amazement at the cheek of some people at trying to get around the rules.