I was meant to be on holiday now and am feeling very miserable as I was too ill to go. I should have flown yesterday but honestly could not have got to the ariport/sat on a flight / eaten a thing/ made it through the first day and have been bedridden. It's all been very stressful and upsetting.
Bottom line is that I don't know what my chances of claiming any money back are or what I even have to do now.
I think what I had was some kind of gastritis . Vomiting , nausea, exhaustion. The GP is vaguely aware as I phoned on Thursday and got a prescription for anti nausea meds.
DH is fretting a bit because I am a bit prone to stomach upsets and he seems to think the GP will have to report literally every GP visit even if no action was taken/blood tests fine. But stomach upsets didn't come up anyway as a pre existing condition, I did test for Covid as the policy was clear on that but it's not Covid.
Can anyone talk me through what I am supposed to do now? Obviously, as it stands, I have lost all the money for the holiday. Do I just need to suck it up? Not phoned insurance company yet as I obviously can't speak to doctor at the weekend.
Insurance policy says we might be able to claim if a traveller is 'seriously ill' with no real sense of what that phrase means. Obviously there is lots of small print. I am reasonably sure that had I jetted off hoping to be well enough and then been ill at my destination, the insurance company would not have been impressed so I did the right thing by not going, really.
Anyone got experience or words of wisdom?