What would you do?
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can anyone help? i am being coerced in to going on holiday to crete in August but i have really deep reservations about it. i am registered coeliac and i have very recently discovered i have multiple food allergies. i can't do right for doing wrong, i am being told it's upset everyone being honest about being frightened. i didn't want to spoil anyone's holiday, i didn't quite agree to go in the first place but i am having it turned in my direction that i am spoiling everyone else's holiday. my family have said Crete is where they're going, i said i was scared and having looked on line i now discover the food out there is unsafe, it's full of ingredients i can't have and i am now getting told i will ruin their holiday if i get ill out there. what would you do? at 46 can i not decide what i want to do? my husband wants to go - this holiday will split us. he can eat whatever he wants! i just feel like running away.
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helen73763 sam18386
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I know - it is frightening!
If you go - have you found this website? http://www.celiactravel.com/cards/They have translated the essential message about the coeliac diet and why it matters into most languages, so you can print out a supply to give to restaurant staff when you eat out. No guarantee, but it might help. If you can get your fellow travellers to go somewhere self-catering, and take your own food it might help.
Don'y just give in and be unsafe - it is not worth it, as it is your long term health that will be affected.
sam18386 helen73763
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hi Helen, thank you so much for replying. i contacted coeliac uk after writing this post. my family's reaction have been less than supportive over this. i told the truth and said how scared i was due to not actually having time to even process this. i feel rail roaded into this holiday in somewhere very hot, with food i have to watch all the time. i can't see me relaxing and enjoying this holiday. apparently i have done this to throw a lovely holiday in my brother in law's face. they don't understand the fear it is causing. i struggled last year in Torquay and that was in this country. i wasn't doing this to upset anyone but if i am ever, ever allowed to explain the fear i have maybe family would understand. if my husband is unsure we"re out. any holiday since my dad has died has EXCLUDED my husband and i! there's more than this than i can explain. surely this is my choice? thanks - it's strange how people i don't even know see it as it is?