How to stay positive when you get sick or injured while traveling
Injuries and illnesses right at the start of a long-awaited trip can derail plans and make you feel deeply upset after years of saving. Having to rest in bed for days or catch a viral infection immediately after recovering forces constant rearrangements and drains your morale.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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How to stay positive when you get sick or injured while traveling
- 1resting in bedDid this help you?
- 2viewing obstacles as part of a bigger adventureDid this help you?
- 3eating good food or visiting the grocery storeDid this help you?
- 4watching local tvDid this help you?
- 5taking bus or boat tours if walking is difficultDid this help you?
- 6Switching to mocktails or non-alcoholic drinks during bar crawls or lunchDid this help you?
- 7Limiting consumption to one or two drinks max at nightDid this help you?
- 8Avoiding drinking the night before a flightDid this help you?
- 9Sticking to one type of alcohol and avoiding clubsDid this help you?
- 10Drinking more water and pacing drinks relative to othersDid this help you?
- 11Partying completely soberDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“These days I feel like I’ll literally get sick if I party too hard.”source ↗
“My hangovers seem to last at least a full day these days”source ↗
“I am currently just over 2 weeks on my first ever travelling adventure.”source ↗
“6 days in I sprained my ankle which put me resting in bed for 5 days, a few rearrangements needed but staying positive.”source ↗
“Just as I’m moving around a little more on my ankle and starting to explore again I have caught a viral infection.”source ↗
“Please give me some advice on how to stay positive!! I feel like I’m starting to get really upset about the fact that I have saved up for this trip for 3 years and it has started like this!”source ↗
“As soon as I hit 35 I pretty much stopped drinking because I can’t stand how long the hangovers are and how it makes me feel”source ↗
“The first travel day/night in our new location ends up being like a 24 hour day awake. The last night usually ends with like 6 hours sleep. I've almost thrown up on a plane, and have thrown up in an airport from being too hungover.”source ↗
Where this came up
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