Medical & Illness Stories

Fillin’ Up The Barf Bags

April 30, 2009 Medical & Illness Stories

While flying from Los Angeles to Washington DC on Virgin America the plan ran into some very heavy turbulence that lasted for well over an hour. Although I am prone to seasickness, I had never become air sick until this flight. After filling two airsick bags and mortifying my boyfriend I could no longer sit [...]

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Panic Attack

April 30, 2009 Medical & Illness Stories

While flying from Las Vegas to Pittsburgh I was shocked to see our flight attendants running to the rear of the plane for a medical emergency. Sitting in First Class with my mother, we were not sure what was going on in the back. An announcement was made for any doctors to please report to [...]

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Flying Boogers

April 30, 2009 Medical & Illness Stories

My 5 year old son and I took our annual trip to NY this February to visit family. On our return trip home to MN, I was unfortunately lucky to be sitting in the aisle seat on a Northwest Airlines. Not that I have any issues with NW but aisle seats, YES!! I always, ALWAYS [...]

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Sprained And Drained

May 30, 2008 Medical & Illness Stories

I am currently sitting in the Atlanta Airport. It is 6:52 am. Yesterday at 4:30 am I left my house near Boston to travel to Minneapolis. Walking out of my house I sprained my ankle. Needless to say I was a bit late getting to the airport. After hobbling to the airport from the Economy [...]

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The Snotty Sweater

April 30, 2008 Medical & Illness Stories

I recently flew back to my home town next to a young man that obviously had a cold. To my relief he’d always cough in his sweater. He seemed to have the sniffles. I can only guess he was using his sweater as a giant hanky too. Well, exactly 36 hours later I woke up [...]

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Uncaring Husband Needs A Heart Transplant

November 30, 2007 Medical & Illness Stories

I travel a lot for business. I started this at a fairly young age, so I was a bit inexperienced in the ways of the world. But I have always been an accommodating person, I don’t complain much and I take it all in stride. It must be my Midwestern background. Anyway, I was on [...]

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Is There A Doctor On Board?

November 30, 2007 Medical & Illness Stories

My husband and I were traveling with our two children (aged two and five.) The flight was uneventful but then we were delayed after landing as we waited for an open gate. After sitting with no air flow for half an hour the plane became quite hot and stuffy and apparently a pregnant women on [...]

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The Lingering Aroma Of Vomit

October 30, 2007 Medical & Illness Stories

Once when I was flying to New York from Phoenix, I developed the stomach flu. After a nauseating one and a half hours into the flight, I couldn’t take it anymore. I had to resort to the white puke bag (at the time I thought I was being generous instead of climbing over people and [...]

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Flying The Sickly Skies

October 30, 2007 Medical & Illness Stories

I was the inflictor of hell on a flight from Heathrow to Dulles. Toward the tail end of a month long trip to Kenya, several members of my class had battled some mysterious stomach ailment…you see where this is going. By time we had connected from Mombassa to Nairobi and landed in London, I thought [...]

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DJ Becomes MD

October 30, 2007 Medical & Illness Stories

On January 2007, I was returning home from spending New Years with friends in NJ. The flight to St. Louis was to take about 3 1/2 hours, and it was a VERY early flight. Still slightly hung over, I boarded the plane expecting to get some sleep on the way; that didn’t happen. The flight [...]

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