Dear Pacific Blue Management (DJ61 crew chch-melb flight)
Motion sickness is an incovenient handicap that my selfish body discovered in my mid-30’s.
Oh and did I tell you that nausea and fainting joined that list too?
For someone who’s always prided herself of her ability to find solutions to difficulties (motion sickness? That’s what ginger tablets are for!), there are times when your body fails you and you just need to ask for help.
There I was on 1 March 2010, aboard Pacific Blue’s aircraft with flight no. DJ61 on my way from Christchurch to Melbourne.
The flight was nothing extraordinary. We had the usual turbulence you’d expect when crossing the Tasman sea. I took my usual dosage of ginger pills pre-flight to ensure the blasted motion sickness is kept at bay. I even fell asleep during the first hour of the flight.
Then horror of horrors….I felt it. My ears were ringing. I broke out in cold sweat and I had this sudden urge to spew.
This scenario has happened a few months ago on the same flight to Melbourne……so sitting where I was hoping it’d go away, I knew, would be stupid.
Getting out of my window seat was not that easy. Seated at the aisle barring my hasty exit was an elderly man (Bless his heart) who couldn’t walk or stand up.
I had to do some expert maneouvering in an otherwise tight space to extricate myself from my seat and straight into heaven, that is the loo.
But alas, my symptoms (based from past experience) were such that if I didn’t ask for help, I knew I was going to faint in the toilet and probably harm myself unnecessarily. So, I shyly asked the one of the flight crew standing close to the aircraft toilets to give me a hand.
And they looked after me. They looked after me well. They gave me instructions on what to do plus a wet towel and a drink of water. They let me sit in the aircraft’s jump seat. One of the flight crews was there every so often asking me how I felt. The flight was full but I didn’t feel rushed.
It was just wonderful. To be looked after like that.
And I just had to blog about it.
To say thank you to the wonderful crew of DJ61 from Christchurch to Melbourne on that fateful day of 1 March 2010. I would definitely fly with you again.
I hope this letter of mine reaches the right people.
Yours sincerely
Christine Gooding
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