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Original poster

Public transport with food poisoning

74 replies

TwoNoMore · 21/08/2024 12:51

I just need hand holding and reassurance
I've had to leave work as I've just suddenly come down with food poisoning symptoms. I don't drive so I've got a 20 minuet bus ride home. I've vomitted four times at work this last hour and simultaneously been sat on the toilet if you catch my drift Blush

How I'm gonna make it through this journey I have no idea. I have a carrier bag for an emergency but that's it. Send good thoughts and chit chat please FlowersSad

OP posts:
toomuchfaff · 21/08/2024 12:54

good luck

Procrastinates · 21/08/2024 12:54

Gosh could you not have got a taxi or none of your colleagues have taken you home? The prospect of a 20 minute bus journey plus travel at either end with the symptoms you describe sounds like hell on earth!

You have my sympathy, you poor thing. Sad

HotChocWine · 21/08/2024 12:55

Get an Uber or taxi, don't put yourself through too much

Original poster
TwoNoMore · 21/08/2024 12:55

I decided it would be less hassle if the symptoms happened on the bus rather than in someone's taxi even though it's scarier for me I'd feel awful for the taxi driver Sad

OP posts:
MintTwirl · 21/08/2024 12:55

In this situation sureky a colleague would drive you home? Or wait at work where you have access to a toilet until someone can collect you?

Original poster
TwoNoMore · 21/08/2024 12:56

I was too scared of the symptoms happening in someone's car I can't imagine anything more mortifying

OP posts:
MintTwirl · 21/08/2024 12:56

TwoNoMore · 21/08/2024 12:55

I decided it would be less hassle if the symptoms happened on the bus rather than in someone's taxi even though it's scarier for me I'd feel awful for the taxi driver Sad

OP on public transport you have the risk of someone filming you and posting on social media.

Procrastinates · 21/08/2024 12:56

TwoNoMore · 21/08/2024 12:55

I decided it would be less hassle if the symptoms happened on the bus rather than in someone's taxi even though it's scarier for me I'd feel awful for the taxi driver Sad

It won't be less hassle though as you'd be able to stop the taxi but you can't stop the bus??

BobbyBiscuits · 21/08/2024 12:59

Your employer should be calling and funding a taxi for you. Or at least let you put it on their account then they'll knock it off your pay check?
Honestly if you're having d&v I wouldn't risk a bus ride. Take some codeine based painkillers. They'll help with pain and also stop loose bowels.

Crunchymum · 21/08/2024 13:02

I also agree you need a taxi or someone to drop you or collect you.

As an emetophobe I wouldn't be able to help but lots of "normal" people would be happy to.

I would be mindful though that it could be a bug and not food poisoning. So you could be contagious.

AlmostCutMyHairToday · 21/08/2024 13:06

Ugh thats horrible! I'd go for taxi. If you have an accident on a bus it will impact way more people than in a taxi. (it may be contagious)

Ginmonkeyagain · 21/08/2024 13:12

Last month I had no option but to get a train with food poisoning (on holiday and we needed to go to our next destination).

I waited untill everything had come out (if you get my drift) and was scrupulous about not adding anything more (I rinsed my mouth out with water a few times to prevent dehydration).

It wasn't the most comfortable 25 min journey of my life, but it was completed with no issues.

Crunchymum · 21/08/2024 13:12

Offer to pay the taxi an extra fee (for cleaning etc)

Devilsmommy · 21/08/2024 13:12

Definitely get a taxi. You say it would be mortifying because of the driver but that's 1 person rather than 50 seeing you on a bus🤷

sunsetsandboardwalks · 21/08/2024 13:16

Definitely get a taxi.

LondonFox · 21/08/2024 13:22

Stay at work for few hours until family or friend can pick you up.
Or stay few h hoping you will get better and then get a taxi.
Human digestive tract does not have endless amount of storage and unless you drink several liters of fluid, most will leave your body within few h.
It will make front and back end excidents much easier to manage in a taxi.

That being said, do drunk a plenty of water and juice with electrolites once you come home or you will develop severe dyhadration.
If you cannot stomach salty crackers do get some salt (dip wet fingertip) also.
Good luck!

Whatdoyoureckonthen · 21/08/2024 13:25

Ginmonkeyagain · 21/08/2024 13:12

Last month I had no option but to get a train with food poisoning (on holiday and we needed to go to our next destination).

I waited untill everything had come out (if you get my drift) and was scrupulous about not adding anything more (I rinsed my mouth out with water a few times to prevent dehydration).

It wasn't the most comfortable 25 min journey of my life, but it was completed with no issues.

This! Stay at work til it's really really done then go home. You must have a husband/brother/sister/dad/mum/friend that can come and get you

neverbeenskiing · 21/08/2024 13:35

You must have a husband/brother/sister/dad/mum/friend that can come and get you

Not everyone has family or friends who are local and able to drop everything and pick them up in the middle of the day.

OP I agree it might be better to stay at work until you're sure the worst is over and then get a taxi.

TheOnlyCherryOnMyTree · 21/08/2024 13:42

It sounds like that would be really unpleasant for other passengers. 2 members of my family instantly start retching when they hear other people being sick. If they were on the bus with you you would be setting off a chain reaction.

Theleaveswillbefalling · 21/08/2024 13:44

Can someone get you some immodium to take before you set off?

Whatdoyoureckonthen · 21/08/2024 13:49

TheOnlyCherryOnMyTree · 21/08/2024 13:42

It sounds like that would be really unpleasant for other passengers. 2 members of my family instantly start retching when they hear other people being sick. If they were on the bus with you you would be setting off a chain reaction.

Yes I agree. This is actually one of the reasons I avoid public transport. Its selfish to inflict this on others.

To the poster who said not everyone has someone who can drop everything and come and help them etc. I didn't mean straight away- if she needs to stay at work for an hour or 2 whilst they travel to her that's fine. Everyone has someone to call on. (very very few have no one to help in an emergency - very few!)

Barbadossunset · 21/08/2024 13:52

Poor you - a horrible situation to be in.
Is there somewhere at work where you can lie down, or at least sit quietly?
Is there a chemist near your work? If so, I suggest you get a friend at work to go to the chemist and get some neurofen plus or anything with codeine in it, and some incontinence pants.
Then so long as you have a bag to be sick in, there’s no danger of doing damage to the bus or taxi.

Floraflower3 · 21/08/2024 18:46

I hope you managed to make it home OP. Ideally don’t take Immodium or codeine based painkillers as you will retain whatever toxin/bug you have, best to just let it all out!

Cattery · 21/08/2024 18:48

HotChocWine · 21/08/2024 12:55

Get an Uber or taxi, don't put yourself through too much

Uber. The licensed taxi drivers are unlikely to want someone throwing up in their place of work

DancingPhantomsOnTheTerrace · 21/08/2024 19:02

Crunchymum · 21/08/2024 13:02

I also agree you need a taxi or someone to drop you or collect you.

As an emetophobe I wouldn't be able to help but lots of "normal" people would be happy to.

I would be mindful though that it could be a bug and not food poisoning. So you could be contagious.

Food poisoning can be contagious anyway.

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