TIFU booking a flight with wrong name (Murphy's Law)

This happened last year on our family trip to Japan but I think this story fits here.

October 2023, I (28f) went with my sister (30f) and parents (63m & 55f) to Japan for the first time. My parents and I flew to Singapore first since my sister lives in Singapore, and from there the 4 of us flew together to Japan. The flight from my city to Singapore was at 8am ish, so we woke up at 4 am that day (an hr trip to the airport). I'd slept around 11.30pm the night before, so barely enough sleep.

Checking in the counter, the staff told me I'd booked my dad's ticket with a different name from his passport. I'd booked his ticket with his new name per his ID, while his name in the passport is his old Chinese name (in latin alphabets not chinese characters). Documentation in my country is so fckd up and it's too long to explain, but bottom line, it's a very common problem here to have passport name different from ID name. There's no aliases detailed in any legal documents either so for decades, my dad's name in his passport has always been his old Chinese name.

To fly domestic, we need to buy ticket with our ID name and number, not Passport name. But to fly internationally, we need to use passport name (obviously). When I booked this flight for my dad, I'd used autofill from my last purchase of his flight. I'd forgotten that the last flight I'd booked for him was domestic, which means the name in the autofill was his ID name. My stress was over the roof. The earliest next flight to Singapore had to transit in another city first and without delay, it was gonna be really close to our next flight from Sg-Tokyo. The staff helped me call the airline office in Singapore to solve the issue. I had to scour my phone to find scans of all his legal documents from years ago when I helped him with some property ownership, to prove to the airline that it was the same person. Eventually I managed to find all the scans, sent it over to the ground staff and he helped sent it to management in Singapore. 45mins later, the airline finally gave their approval and we finally sighed in relief. Unfortunately, my body didn't take note that the stress was over.

Once we reached Singapore, I had the worst headache of my life. I didn't have enough breakfast so my gastric was scewed by the time it was lunch and I was nauseous for the rest of the day. My suitcase's wheel was broken so I had to buy new suitcase in Singapore and moved all my stuff over to the new suitcase. I couldn't rest inbetween flights. Threw up twice in Changi during check in. Our flight to Tokyo was delayed too so my estimation of getting some rest on board, was postponed. We ended up boarding around 9pm and by that point, I guess the stress and exhaustion was too much, because my arrhythmia showed up.

So on top of nausea, while waiting at the gate, I had chest pain and neck tightness. Looked for my meds in my purse, only to remember I'd moved it to the new suitcase checked into luggage, thinking I wouldn't need them soon since I hadn't had an episode for more than 6 months. I was royally fckd. My family panicked, my mom especially. I could literally feel my body shutting down and was just gonna faint. My mom ransacked her bag and carry on cause she always carried a pack of otc meds and some of our allergy meds here and there, and thank almighty, she indeed had my arrhythmia meds from the previous year (mother is still gonna mother no matter how old you are 🥲 what would I do without her). All I rmb boarding the plane was chanting "don't pass out don't pass out don't pass out" while trying to breathe through chest pain. Once I sat down on board, put on seatbelt, I was knocked out. Literally. According to my sister, she kept checking my pulse cause she was afraid I had cardiac arrest instead of just sleeping. I was out for 4hrs straight and woke up without chest pain, without nausea, just crazy hunger. Had 2 instant noodle and 1 chicken rice meal, before falling back to sleep until we landed in Narita, finally feeling well.

TL;DR lack of sleep for early flight, booked my dad's ticket with the wrong name which caused major stress, not enough breakfast which caused gastric acting up and nausea whole day, suitcase wheel broke and had to buy new suitcase in transit, stupidly put arrhythmia meds in new suitcase checked into luggage, mental and physical exhaustion throughout the day brought out bad arrhythmia episode with chest pain. Moral of the story, re-check your flight booking details, always carry important meds in purse all the time.