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A woman who had 'severe diarrhea' while traveling has revealed why her personal trauma ended up cancelling the flight she was on.
Meghan Reinertsen has surely had the ultimate airplane journey of hell, from fighting for her life with simultaneous diarrhea and vomiting to being considered a 'biohazard' for hundreds of strangers.
Coming clean about her traumatic ordeal a year ago, the TikTok star recalled how she 'single-handedly' got a flight leaving Indianapolis canceled, and it all started with a questionable burger.
She explained: "If that flight cancellation changed the trajectory of your life in a really negative way, I'm so sorry. It was not without pain and suffering - let me run you through the events of that day."
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Meghan said she was travelling from Portugal, where she works as a live-in nanny, back to the US to attend a movie premiere.
She recalled having eaten some undercooked meat the night before her travels, and although she got through her first leg from Lisbon to Newark without any hiccup, her second leg to Indianapolis was a different story.
Not long in, she suffered a 'disturbance deep within', followed by full-body sweats, cramps, and agonizing pain.
"I've never felt anything like it in my life," the TikToker said. "My insides are cramping, I can only imagine that that is what a contraction feels like."
Meghan had 'more diarrhea than any human should ever have in their life' in just 20 minutes, she continued, describing how her bowels were 'filling with water, releasing, filling with water - not water, diarrhea - releasing'.
While in the cubicle, 'a 2x2 shoebox broom closet,' she had to scream for help and a barf bag as for the next 90 minutes she was plagued with chundering form both ends.
Her sickness didn't subside even when the jet landed, during which she had to 'brace' herself clutching the sink and the walls while 'diarrhea is not stopping'.
"I don't know how there was even anything in there to still come out," she added.
Then, after her fellow passengers had deplaned, an air hostess told Meghan that the next scheduled flight had been cancelled and to take as long as she needed.
"In the moment I'm not thinking that's because of me, OK, because I'm like 'What a gorgeous coincidence!'" she said.
When she finally felt well enough to emerge, staff advised her to tie her presumably brimming barf bag up and 'leave it' in the cubicle - 'because the HAZMAT team is going to come'.
At this point, the penny dropped as Meghan recalled thinking: "Got it. Got it. You canceled that flight because of me, because now the HAZMAT team has gotta come in and clean it because you don't know if I brought something back from Portugal and I am a biohazard.
"Like, I am patient zero."
Meghan's horrific ordeal didn't just end there either as after miraculously making it to her hotel in a 'withered' state, and the movie premiere, she later 's*** the bed'.
Meghan said she had to come clean to the reception desk when checking out, saying: "She was so cool about it.
"I was like, 'Ma'am, I am so sorry. I've been sick for maybe a couple of days, there's just some sheets in the corner, just like tell housekeeping just to throw those out.'
"She goes: 'Not a problem. Happens more than you think.'"
"Thank god," Meghan concluded. "I get on my flight, I get back to Atlanta, never looked back."