12/16/06 10-day holiday cruise

[DCLgodess]

I am chewing on my nails about the snow coming. I don't really mind a few inches but this 8-14" stuff has got to go.

14-20" here. sorry but i think i get to wail more. I'd so much rather be cruisin. Okay i will add your name to the list pronto. If you want to do intorductions i can start?...

Hi my name is Jen. I am a junior in high school who loves disney, horses, and scuba. Been on 4 disney cruises, included the last 10 day. I hope thats enough info. and oh, i live in harrisburg pa with my mom, stepdad, and sister(13 almost 14). Hope thats enough of an intro.

 

[dobelover]

Good Idea. Sue, 57 at cruise time, my sister Elizabeth(she posts as CodyJ), 54 and hopefully Jeanne, DM 87. Early seating and we would like the rotation with fellow diser's.

 

[The Land and Sea Guy]

Were you lucky enough to get the Walt Suite again????

Not yet. I'm on a wait list, so I'll see what happens.

Glad to see you found this thread! I think this is going to be a fantastic group of Disers!!

 

[The Land and Sea Guy]

Good Idea. Sue, 57 at cruise time, my sister Elizabeth(she posts as CodyJ), 54 and hopefully Jeanne, DM 87. Early seating and we would like the rotation with fellow diser's.

Sign my family up for the same rotation!

 

[The Land and Sea Guy]

How long do you think it will be before we reach post 1000?

Cary

 

[dobelover]

Sign my family up for the same rotation!

carY - I will make sure we do the same rotation for dinner seating. It is exciting to think how your girls will have grown. We won't mention how the rest of us age.

I am glad you and Jen came up with that list. It will make coordinating dining easier. Thank you.

 

[dobelover]

How long do you think it will be before we reach post 1000?

Cary

12/16/05

 

[DCLgodess]

i want to be on the same rotation with my fellow DISers, so maybe i will change my preference to none, even though my mom would love to eat at Lumieres on Christmas.

 

[videogal1]

Sssshhhhh...this is supposed to be a secret...so I will only tell umpteen thousand DIS friends.....

Couldn't resist...and there is a distinct possibility that we will be joining you all on this cruise!
Hi to all of the "original" 10 - nighter's!! gaRry, Cary, Sue, Jen, Lynda......


Must be a good omen! First post here, and a T.O.P.!!

YAyyyy!!

 

[dobelover]

i want to be on the same rotation with my fellow DISers, so maybe i will change my preference to none, even though my mom would love to eat at Lumieres on Christmas.

Go for a preference since it doesn't matter to anyone else. I have never had dinner in Palos so I may do that this cruise.

 

[videogal1]

As long as you have a: " " or " " or even the infamous " "

Real
eat for breakfast......





Hope you guys escaped THE COUGH..... T O P ! ! ! !

 

[magiroux]

Hope you guys escaped THE COUGH..... T O P ! ! ! !

Oh Boy, Lynda...let me tell ya, it has been a hell of a time since we got back!!

1. No, we didnt escape the "cough". Jim & I both ended up with pnuemonia. Jim was so bad that he had trouble breathing and has not had a cigarette in three weeks :jumping4: :jumping4: :jumping4: . Don't know if you noticed he was basically a chain smoker. He had a real scare. DD didn't get sick. I think it was because she was on antibiotics the whole trip for an ear infection.

Hang on, there's more.....

 

[magiroux]

My Dad, who is 73 and tough as nails has lived with us for about 8 years now. He still works full time at a small neighborhood bar, smokes too much, drinks too much and doesn't eat hardly. Really, he weighs 130 lbs.

Where is she going with you ask......

Monday after New Years, Dh is in the bathroom at about midnight and hears Dad go downstairs...thinks nothing of it. Few mintues later he hears some commotion outside and lights. There's a cruiser, fire truck and ambulance in front of house. As DH gets to the door, very confused, he watches Dad walking down the driveway (wouldn't want to have the rescue personal come to you now would ya, Dad)but doesn't make it and collapses.

Of course, the cop comes up to DH (in nothing but his skibbies, by the way) to see what has led up to this. By this time I have joined they frey (in more than my skibbies) equally confused. Seems he called 911 himself, saying he couldn't breath. Later he tells me he didn't want to wake anyone. Can you say strangle him????? At this point he is on the way to hospital and they tell me he has stopped breathing.

 

[magiroux]

In emergency, he is put on breathing machine and it he looked just awful. All I knew was for the last two days he had a cold. Well seems it was pneumonia (probably caught it from us) and his lungs were in bad shape.

He gets sent to ICU almost immdiately because emergency is so busy they got him on machines and out of there, they need his room.

Jump two days later...still in ICU and not really with it, come to find out from blood tests it seems he has also had a small heart attack (his second). they want him to rest and they will advise if more bypasses are needed. He tells his Dr that he cannot sleep in ICU (too much going on). No problem, he'll give him something to help him sleep.

Dr gives him Adavan (sp?).

Well................

 

[magiroux]

At 5:30AM the next morning I get a call from nurse. Dad is flipping. He wants to go home now.

I get Dad on the phone. "come getme" he says. "they are trying to kill me" and a whole lot of other stuff they made no sense. I get the nurse on the phone. What did you give him I ask, he's nuts.

By 9AM they tell me to come and get him or they are going to restrain him AGAIN!!!

He's home less than 5 minuted, he falls. He's coughing all day and he is still high from the pill from hell. I am just trying to get him to sleep it off.

By 10pm that night, guess who's back at our house? The cruiser, fire truck and ambulance. He can't breathe again. Back on the breathing machine. Now they start trying find out why he keeps stop breating and with CAT Scan they have found a tumor in his lung.

 

[videogal1]

By 10pm that night, guess who's back at our house? The cruiser, fire truck and ambulance. He can't breathe again. Back on the breathing machine. Now they start trying find out why he keeps stopping his breating and with CAT Scan they have found a tumor in his lung.

I caught it, too..... No hair-raising stories, though. EEEEKK!

Just bronchitis and sinus infection... nearly threw myself out of the water bed one night and I'm still coughing....I can imagine it would hit smokers pretty hard, especially one growing foreign objects in his breathing apparatus...

This could be just the proof that ending a cruise is bad for you...


Hope all is well with your family soon!

 

[DCLgodess]

wow. i hope your dad is alright magiroux.

 

[justmestace]

So how many cruises are ya up to now....15, 16

It's a tough life, but someone's gotta live it!!

Not even close! Only 3 so far, with 2 definites booked....now, Vegas trips are a whole other story.

Mary Ann.....good grief! Lots and lots of pixie dust to all of you! Hope your Dad is doing better A.S.A.P.
I told Jay at the airport on the way home from the cruise that I thought I was getting the flu or something. It was bronchitis and strep throat, ears infected...I think all the infections are gone, but the coughing doesn't want to go away.

And our Molly has been missing since Mon the 17th. Put up posters, still nothing yet. I'm not even thinking of the possibilities out here....coyotes, mountain lion, human.....

 

[justmestace]

Mary Ann,
First I'll say I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV......But....
What the doctor probably gave your Dad was Ativan. It is a generic form of Diazepam/Lorazepam, and in some cases rather than work as a tranquilizer, it can cause sleeplessness, agitation and rage.
It should also never be given to a heavy smoker, as it could then cause even more difficulty with breathing.
I learned to read a lot when we were taking care of Jay's Dad. I made the doctors change his meds more than once, and change the dosages several times. I also had to research food interactions with his meds. Eventually, the docs learned to listen to me.

 

[videogal1]

Mary Ann
Had a chance to read the story by Delswife?