TIFU by thinking I was stronger than a bug

TL;DR, I believed I was already over my illness, I was very wrong and lost an experience booked for me.

So, for context I took a weeks leave to relax after a tiring period at work and was using this to unwind. All was going well, until 6 days ago I started to feel a bit under the weather (Aches, Fever the usual) as a big bloke, I put this down to man flu and cracked on.

I sat, opened a few beers and enjoyed myself thinking it would pass. And it did! So I arranged to do an experience day going to London’s aquarium to go dive with the sharks which as been a life long goal of mine and a very kind gift from a friend. Figured I’d be right as rain, full of water swimming about in 2 days.

I was wrong. Oh so very wrong. I feel like I’ve gone nine rounds with Mike Tyson destroying my head, body and face leaving me a snivelling, disheveled broken excuse of a man. Instead of getting in touch with the aquarium, trying to rearrange I instead soldiered on and booked a train that morning. Instead of getting onto said train, I drove to Southampton airport (The train wasn’t even close to Southampton) and missed my slot considerably. So instead of diving with sharks and enjoying myself, I’m sat curled up on my sofa, regretting my choices and exploring options to try to rebook 🥲