Is there an unwritten rule

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didihearthatright123456 · 05/03/2022 18:55

That whenever you go on holiday, however short that holiday is, at least one child will be poorly?

Three year old twins, 2nd day into a long weekend and one has thrown up and has a temperature when yesterday she was absolutely fine 😔

Every single time we go away one of them is poorly 😷 and of course it feels so much worse when you’re not in your own surroundings.

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GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 05/03/2022 19:27

It does seem to happen a lot!

2bazookas · 05/03/2022 19:51

Our children were in some kind of Union whose rules meant that one of them was required to produce an infectious childhood disease on the first day of any holiday, as soon as we 'd unpacked. . The others would then catch the same disease, one at a time in sequence about 10 days apart. Union rules meant no two children could have the disease simultaneously. Mumps, measles, rubella... we did them all in caravans and remote cottages.

Mysterian · 05/03/2022 19:52

If there is I've not read it anywhere.

bobsholi · 05/03/2022 19:54

Same here, which is why I haven't been able to bring myself to book a family holiday for the past 3 years!

WouldIwasShookspeared · 05/03/2022 19:54

@Mysterian

If there is I've not read it anywhere.

God I'm thick! I read that and thought well of course not, she said unwritten...

Then the penny dropped 😂😂😂

It's called sod's law, OP.

hellcatspangle · 05/03/2022 20:08

I'm sure my DS has been ill on every family holiday we ever went on. Sometimes it would start before we left, so couldn't always blame the sun/local water/food.

CoraggioCara · 05/03/2022 20:17

When we were children it was my sister who did the heavy lifting. As soon as we boarded the ferry she'd be working on an ear infection.

Xpologog · 05/03/2022 20:19

Oh yes. The holiday with norovirus was particularly memorable for all the wrong reasons.

donkey86 · 05/03/2022 20:21

Yep, every time. Always my youngest though - my elder DD seems to have the constitution of an ox.

Nat6999 · 05/03/2022 20:22

My brother got mumps when we were staying in an ancient static caravan with no running water or toilet, the lady who owned it got a doctor to come out & see him. All the other children in the other caravan caught it before we went home, they must have loved us.

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didihearthatright123456 · 09/03/2022 09:31

Just a little update, my DD took Holidayitis to a new level, she’s got a very nasty sickness & diarrhoea bug. She got admitted to hospital yesterday with dehydration and low blood sugars 😔

I have twin daughters and the only time I’ve ever been away from my other DT2 is when I’ve been in hospital with DT1

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