Sick at the World

[EvilQueen-T]

yep twice...food poisoning from house of blues was the worst. but i was also sick on one trip while on the deluxe dining plan and drug myself around the parks while watching everyone else in my group eat my allotment of good food. we actually left early on our last day because of it...something we NEVER do. hope you feel better quick!

 

[PUSH]

Just saying, but I wasn't sick yesterday, but I feel it coming. Hopefully it's just a one day thing.

The difference is that I'm at home and you're at Disney World.

 

[JIMINYCR]

Glad to hear things are improving and you were able to get out. Hope the dinner went well and you had felt well enough to enjoy the dessert party. Good luck with the rest of your trip.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

I've been sick at Disney before. Had the stomach virus there several times. Also, when I was two we figured out that my system REALLY didn't like the water there. I've been sick quite a few times; I've just tried to erase them from my memory.

And then my dad always tells the story of my mom in 1987 throwing up in the middle of Epcot. In China if you'd like to be more specific. She gets sick down there more frequently than I do.

My brother when he was little used to get febral seizures and had one in front of Test Track once.

 

[All Disney All The Time]

I almost had a seizure one time when Alice (at the UK pavilion) grabbed my arm and said, "Please come skip with me Sir". We skipped around the corner over to near the Tea Shop and the almost seizure occured about 2 min. later when walking away and the wife coldcocked me across the back of the head. What can I say, I'm a sucker for petite blondes in kneesocks. <as long as they're over 18>
This was wayyyyyy back when, when the CMs portraying Disney characters had a LOT more freedom. I'm pretty sure that I still have a bruise where the wife whacked me. Maybe even a knot.

 

[Taylor]

I got pink eye one time on the flight to DW we treated every morning but it didn't ruin my fun

 

[Gabe1]

One year I had one of those over the top horrible head colds, determined not to let it stop me and kept going full pace. A few days later we were going to our room 2nd floor Bayou before heading next to DTD. I started to go up the stairs and I couldn't, just couldn't, finally after the longest staircase ever, I fell into bed, asleep before my family left for DTD. Never heard them leave or come back and didn't care. Wall.

 

[stevehousse]

I just hope that if you really did get sick from the restaurant there, you called and talked to a manager about it. To see if anyone else got sick and they would most likely offer you a refund. Remember that any kind of food poisoning usually shows up 12-24 hours after digestion, in severe cases, 8. Did u get sick that same day or a few hours after you dined, or was it the following day. Try to think of anything you ate the day before that could possibly e the culprit.

 

[englanddg]

I just hope that if you really did get sick from the restaurant there, you called and talked to a manager about it. To see if anyone else got sick and they would most likely offer you a refund. Remember that any kind of food poisoning usually shows up 12-24 hours after digestion, in severe cases, 8. Did u get sick that same day or a few hours after you dined, or was it the following day. Try to think of anything you ate the day before that could possibly e the culprit.

That's interesting. Last year the kid and I both got sick after eating the chicken at Cosmic Rays. A day or two later later, she got ill (front and back) and the next day I got ill (same symptoms)...

Someone else on a different forum was also at Cosmic Rays during the same period and had the Chicken, and also fell ill. She was convinced that it was Cosmic Rays...but I think it was the Water Park (for the kid and me)...

But, still interesting...

 

[Runmyhorse]

My daughter did once. We went to eat at dinoland restaurant and not even 10 mint later we were in line for dinosaur abd she got this look and had to exit. She was like that for 3 days.it was horrible. I do believe it was food poisoning. She spent most the trip in the bathrooms.we will nvr eat at that place again.

 

[stevehousse]

My daughter did once. We went to eat at dinoland restaurant and not even 10 mint later we were in line for dinosaur abd she got this look and had to exit. She was like that for 3 days.it was horrible. I do believe it was food poisoning. She spent most the trip in the bathrooms.we will nvr eat at that place again.

If it was food poisoning there is no way that it would have come on 10 minutes later, impossible. It would have had to be something she ate the day before. I am trained in this field...

 

[All Disney All The Time]

Staph aureus produces an endotoxin that can cause "food poisoning" in as little as 30 min. Most develop symptoms within 1-6 hr.
At least according to the CDC. But as we all know the CDC is a massive conspiracy on par with the closing of Horizons and the introduction of MagicBands.

 

[JillC LI]

I got sick at WDW during our trip this past December. We were there Wed-Sun. On Friday morning I woke up with a tickle in my throat and a hoarse voice. On Saturday morning it was a bad sore throat. By Saturday evening I had no voice at all, my throat was in agony, and I felt like I was going to pass out if I walked too much. I still refused to let it get me down because I had planned this trip for a year and a half, and I figured if I didn't acknowledge that I was sick then it couldn't ruin the trip. Sunday morning I woke up feeling dizzy on my feet, couldn't get enough air, and still had a terrible sore throat with no voice at all. But that was our final day at Disney, and I refused to slow down. When I think back on that trip, I remember all the good memories, and the only time I think about being sick is when I come across a post like this one, or when I remember the flight home with the severe ear pain I experienced from being so congested. I absolutely refused to let being sick destroy one moment of that precious, long-planned Disney trip. Mind over matter.

 

[PeoplemoverTTA]

Back in January I came down with the flu a day before leaving. Fever, body aches, chills...it was rough. I took a flu med for people with high blood pressure and sucked it up. Surprisingly, once I was in the parks I ran on pure adrenaline. But when we came back to the hotel for naps or at night, I literally collapsed in bed, lol. I've traveled to WDW with little colds from time to time, but on the flights home (the one time I don't have a non-stop flight!) I had the most horrible pressure and pain in my ears. They wouldn't pop, and I was crying the pain was so bad...luckily my ear drums didn't burst! Be very careful when flying and suffering from a cold or flu.

The worst for me, though, was in August 2011. My mom suddenly passed away at the end of June, and we had been planning the trip for over a year, so my family still went (5 of us). Some of us drove, but the others ended up stranded in WDW for a few extra days because our connecting flights were in Boston when that hurricane hit. Sounds great, right?

Well, I had a bad heat rash for nearly the entire week, and all of a sudden the original day we were supposed to go home, I woke up and half my leg was red, hot and rock hard (apparently I had a bad surface infection and secondary infection of my leg tissue...after several tests when I came home, they never determined exactly what caused it...creepy!). I knew something was up, so I ended up having to go to Celebration Hospital (the manager at POP, when asked for a cab recommendation to get to an urgent care center, insisted on an ambulance, since it was free, and insisted I would get better care at Celebration Health - very nice).

They gave me an antibiotic cream and sent me back to the hotel. My sister got a last-minute flight home (she was starting a new job), but I was still stuck for two more days. I woke up the next day and my leg was worse. I could barely walk...Well, I ended up on IV antibiotics (one of the strongest antibiotics out there...I think it was called Clindimyacin or something). I was all alone, in the hospital, and depressed as all heck. Not the way to end a trip! I left with a prescription and squeezed my way onto a flight after one night in the hospital. My nurse was so nice, helping me get out of there to literally just make my flight home.

Of course, then I got home and continued my antibiotic, which caused a secondary infection of my colon that can apparently kill you, necessitating yet another antibiotic that made me so sick I could barely lift my head for 10 days....seriously, writing all this out for the first time in almost 2 years, it's a miracle I've been back to WDW - it was that horrible. Yet, I've been back four times since then

 

[von Slapschtick]

I almost had a seizure one time when Alice (at the UK pavilion) grabbed my arm and said, "Please come skip with me Sir". We skipped around the corner over to near the Tea Shop and the almost seizure occured about 2 min. later when walking away and the wife coldcocked me across the back of the head. What can I say, I'm a sucker for petite blondes in kneesocks. <as long as they're over 18>
This was wayyyyyy back when, when the CMs portraying Disney characters had a LOT more freedom. I'm pretty sure that I still have a bruise where the wife whacked me. Maybe even a knot.

Fair play, that cracked me up! I just read it out to my daughter and there was another round, thanks for that

 

[Runmyhorse]

If it was food poisoning there is no way that it would have come on 10 minutes later, impossible. It would have had to be something she ate the day before. I am trained in this field...

All I know is she was perfect until eating there. So im still saying it was something in that restaurant. I have read and been told it doesnt have to take a full day but im not doctor. Like I said she was perfect running, riding, and all until eating there.

 

[stevehousse]

All I know is she was perfect until eating there. So im still saying it was something in that restaurant. I have read and been told it doesnt have to take a full day but im not doctor. Like I said she was perfect running, riding, and all until eating there.

That's the common misconception about food borne illnesses. Most people assume its something they just ate. There is an incubation period for food borne illnesses. Thts why he would have been fine and then all of a sudden ill. I have filled out numerous food borne illness claims, and 9 out of 10 times it turns out to be something they ate the day before.
So I wouldn't put the blame on that restaurant...

 

[luv]

So, did poor vitani get to a park yet???

 

[stevehousse]

I hope so! I loved her last trip report and I hope she gets some park time to write about!

 

[rufio]

So, did poor vitani get to a park yet???

Haha! I made it to MK and Epcot yesterday. I was able to eat some trail mix for breakfast, potato and leek soup from BOG for lunch, and a little bit of french onion soup and mac and cheese from Chefs de France. I wasn't able to eat anything at the dessert party or go on anything but slow rides, but I'll go into detail in my TR! We just got home about 45 minutes ago and DH is out getting me some soup.