Public transport with food poisoning

[TwoNoMore]

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

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

Fellow emetophobe here... kinda shocked by people telling OP to 'stay at work', 'get a bus', 'get a taxi'.

I personally wouldn't want to be working alongside, sitting on a bus or in a car with someone with active food poisoning. This is precisely how these things spread. So irresponsible.

Thank you for all your messages.

I didn't even think of the notion of getting everything out before making it home. I managed to get a taxi but I did throw up twice in my bag for life (I was mortified and he looked pretty pissed which I was surprised about as it was in a bag!)

Dosed up on meds in bed

What would be your solution, then? They either have to stay at work until it settles down, or use some means of getting home.

I don't know what the solution is. I just know what the solution isn't.
And it isn't to potentially infect other people!

Poor you. I had to take a flight with food poisoning. Transfer from hotel to airport was the scariest 45 minutes of my life. I always travel with a couple of pairs of Tena pants in my suitcase now just in case. Get better soon.

The hell I went through on a 20 minuet car ride I can't imagine!!

You were surprised he was annoyed at you being sick in his car?!??? Wtf. Its people like you that spread this stuff about, bag or no bag it's still rank. You should have set up camp in the work toilet for a few hours and bleached it all before you then went home. Selfish selfish selfish.

Hope you are better soon OP.

@TwoNoMore I'm
Actually surprised he didn't tell you to get out or charge you for puking in his car. Yea I know you got it in your bag for life but the smell lingers

This is why I always carry Imodium instants!!

You can't catch food poisoning from someone else . . . 🙄

Glad you got home OP and hope you're feeling better soon.
I do feel for the taxi driver too though, had you at least warned them that you were ill?

@brentwoods yes you can.

Salmonella, E. coli, campylobacter etc all shed in vomit and poo, so you can absolutely catch someone else's food poisoning

Yes you can - and even if you couldn't, there's always the chance it could be something else anyway. And highly contagious!

This! 👏👏 Honestly, this is what gives me the fear. People being so careless!

Though, it does strike me as a little odd that someone would carry an actual 'bag for life' to work. A reuseable nylon bag, maybe? But a supermarket bag for life? I'm getting the impression this isn't an isolated incident...

@Jumpingthruhoops oh give it a rest! Not everyone lives in this intense fear of vomit and the need to shame people who are ill. It's perfectly normal to have a bag for life in the office!

Op - I'm glad you made it home ok and I hope you feel better soon.

I dont think anyone's going to be particularly happy about you throwing up in their car, even in a bag, it's not exactly pleasant to witness, but it's infinitely better than the same on a bus.

I probably would have warned the taxi driver first

Respectfully, speak for yourself.

Why are you surprised the taxi driver seemed pissed off? The smell of vomit lingers, there's a risk you don't get it in the bag, he will have to wipe everything with disinfectant as particles spread so expense and not being able to earn while he does that, he might be concerned about getting ill, and just listening to someone throw up is horrible.

Some really horrible people on here, OP was ill and wanted to get home to bed as soon as possible. I hope you are feeling better soon.

Honestly this is the most heartless place on Earth sometimes. It's all me me me me me isn't it.
OP I honestly feel so sorry for you. You must have felt rotten and wished more than anything you could spin on the spot and disappear, and reappear 3 seconds later in your home. You had to do what you had to do, while very poorly. Food poisoning is just the worst, and the panic won't have helped. I hope you are better soon.

Oh and for the record - food poisoning isn't catching. And those who think she should have stayed at work until it passed, let's hope this never happens to you.

Well exactly. I'm glad she made it home but I honestly would not have even attempted to move until the d and v was under control.

I would have camped out in the office disabled toilet until it was under control.

Also of course the taxi driver was annoyed at someone puking in his car, whether into a bag or not.

Surely staying at work means her poo and vomit particles would float around in the toilets and infect everyone who went in there anyway? Sometimes you just need to get home!

Seeing as she'd already puked and shat in the work toilets it was a bit late to worry about infecting colleagues.

Hope you feel better soon @TwoNoMore

Some really horrible, unsympathetic people here! And your work place too. Someone should have offered to take you home!