Nooo! This can't be happening. Barf....

[Issymum]

I've been summoned on very short notice to attend a departmental meeting in the US about a 'restructuring' of our department (I'm very, very wary of the word 'restructure'). I'm due to get into a cab at 1pm tomorrow and get on a flight at 4pm to go to NY. And what happens this afternoon? Crampy stomach (must be anxiety), running to the loo (whoa this is getting to me more that I realised), not quite making it to the loo (ahem, that isn't anxiety). I rang my father who knows lots about these things, got a swift telephone diagnosis and the instruction that I'm probably OK to fly if I take lots of Imodium and wash my hands a la Lady Macbeth so that I don't infect anybody else. Oh and provided I don't start vomiting. Ten minutes after I put the phone down - barf.

I could cancel, but a stomach upset is such a lame excuse that nobody will believe me and my boss will just assume that I'm uncommitted to corporate excellence [groan]. Please cheer me up with rousing stories of how you managed extraordinary deeds of endurance whilst in the midst of gastro-enteritis. And if you happen to see a very pale, gagging 42 year old at the check in desk tomorrow, be gentle.

[frogs]

Not an interview story, but last year dh and I had booked a weekend city break without children for the first time in, ooh, centuries. 3 days before the travel date, ds acquired a D&V bug. 2 days before, dd1 got it. And 24 hours before, yup, dh and I got it. We we managed (but only just) to drag ourselves downstairs into the taxi, felt rough on the train, worse on the plane and collapsed into a heap once we got the hotel. By the next morning we were wobbly but fine. And we had a successful break despite the ropey start.

Hope you feel better soon.

[emsiewill]

1pm is still a while off, hopefully it's a 24 hour thing, and you will be well on the way to recovery by then.

[Issymum]

Thanks Frogs and emsiewill. I continued to throw up during the night, but it seems to have abated and I think I'm going to relive your whole experience - drag myself through the journey, feel rough, collapse in the hotel and hope to make it for tomorrow morning's meeting. Encouraging to know that it can work out.

[Marina]

I looked after dd solo the other weekend during and after a mighty projectile vomiting bug issymum, you have my utter sympathies.
Hope you manage to get plenty of water on the flight and some decent TLC.
And that the meeting is less ominous than you fear

[Tinwhistle]

Ooh, I'm so sorry for you. We had a vomiting (into bin bags as the airport had no sick bags!) daughter at Cork airport for several hours. It was so miserable for her. I only hope that you can be over the worst.