The start of the trip to South East Asia didn’t go so smoothly. My partner Grant mid flight over tapped me on the shoulder to say he didn’t feel well – seconds later he threw up on himself, down the plane isle and then all over the exit door and toilet. Also while attempting to make it to the toilet he managed to be sick on someone’s arm… it really could not have gone worse!

We were on a jetstar flight and had a few things to eat on flight but also ate hungry jacks just before boarding so we aren’t 100% sure what made him sick but he had 5 more hours left on the flight and a window seat. The seat no longer clean plus our friend Ammar and I were not willing to swap… sorry but we all have our friendship limits 💋.

The biggest disappointment was how JetStar dealt with this. It would be so hard as an employee to have to clean it up and I offered to do it but they were incredibly rude about it and asking why he was sick? Is he drunk? How much alcohol did he drink? (None, like I can afford paying for it). All asked with a lot of sass and an eye roll making him feel extremely anxious and embarrassed drawing more attention to him. The staff were rude and not offering to assist , no offering of water, a sick bag, paper towels.

Luckily for Grant our friend Ammar had a spare top . Let this be a lesson for flying to bring a change of clothes, I have been told to do this so many times before as airlines can misplace your luggage as well. However I will not forget this next time.

The most entertaining part about the experience was the man Grant threw up on was a massive strong gym guy . He was lovely and so forgiving about it however his friends kept laughing at him and saying “you have a stinky arm ey bro!”. Very funny, but the guy was a champion not even bothered and just said “accidents happen”.

Once we departed and got through customs, a very challenging task I’m sure we ended up just staying at an airport hotel. This was Grants second time overseas and spent the whole night extremely unwell therefor for the rest of the trip was very apprehensive as to what food to eat.

Experiences happen and lessons learnt. Be careful what you eat before and during flights, bring a change of clothes and to JetStar, if you could please show a little compassion to the person now stuck in economy on a flight with bad food poisoning unable to lay down nor have easy access to a bathroom that would be amazing.

But to conclude, Stay healthy everyone. Jetlag isn’t the only thing we need to watch out for. xx

The calm before the sick storm