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[mykidsintow]

Hey! Thanks! I will head out to CVS this afternoon for sure!

A for the stroller fan.... My Daughter gets overheated very easily. We have found the storller fan to not be effective. What we have found to work really well is a mister. They had them at Walmart last yr. You just put water into a canister and then pump to create air pressure. It has a valve that you can turn to turn it on and off. If I mist her down every 15ish minutes she stays fairly cooled down.

Last year I sent one to a friend in Iraq and they all loved it so much they did a group call begging for more of them. So we found the only 8 left at our area walmarts and shipped them to Iraq.

I guess it seems silly, but if you think about various parks many of them have mist areas to cool off. Once you get that barely damp feeling any breeze will cool the skin. It works very well!

Good luck and thanks for the CVS tip!

 

[of2dbeach]

i just got a small fan with a suction cup for the stroller at home depot it seems pretty strong. we have a small mister fan also that i got at Kmart.. yep that will be me in 12 days schleping thru the parks carrying 2 fans lol. Glad i could help with the umbrella thing.. i know its hard to find things for handicapped kids also
Enjoy your trip!

 

[SueM in MN]

They had them at Walmart last yr. You just put water into a canister and then pump to create air pressure. It has a valve that you can turn to turn it on and off. If I mist her down every 15ish minutes she stays fairly cooled down.

and you do want to buy one before you get to WDW.
We bought one at Walmart or Target before a trip a few years ago. I don't remember the price, but around $5.
When we got to WDW, wee found them selling in the parks for up to $15. The fans at AK were higher priced - I guess because that park seems hotter.

Thanks for all the information/pictures about the revised canopy. That's pretty cool, especially with the rain shield.
Can it be folded back for transfers or when you don't want it or is it a choice of just on or off?

 

[mykidsintow]

I ent to our local piddly CVS.... No clip umbrella. I went to 2 CVS stores in the closest city, no Clip umbrellas. However, ALL 3 had clip on Fans like you were looking for!!! LOL

So we looked at target and we looked at dicks sportings goods. We finally found some at walmart in the camping dept with the folding camp chairs. They were 4.97 each. They had navy, red and hunter green. Julia said she was not putting them on her chair because they are ugly. So we went to the craft section and got an assorted package of glitter paint to paint flowers and butterflies on the navy umbrella. 10 bucks total, not bad.

I also looked for the mist thing we have at WM and they don't have any. I sure hope they get them in again this yr, but so far... nada.

Thanks again for all the help! Oh and I talked to Special Services and we can take her power chair to Typhoon Lagoon. There are apparently paved paths all around the place and you don't have to go through sand. So that was good. I have made contact (thanks to the DIS boards) with a CM at TL that works in an area they can keep an eye on her chair for us. So that sounds just great to us! I didn't want to tote a stroller for 1 day.

Thanks again everyone!

 

[Momma2dakidz]

Hi Beth,
As i was shopping at my local big lots this weekend i saw a pink and white umbrella that clamps to a chair. It was PERFECT for what you need.
Becky

 

[mykidsintow]

Hmm... Did I mention we live in no-wheres-ville KY?

We have a Big Lots about 45 mins away. If I am up that way I will be sure and check in.

I got fabric glitter paint. I have painted the navy walmart umbrella. I am not really happy with it because the paint dried semi transparent and on the dark blue its not very cute. However, its not overly hard to please a 4 yr old and Julia thinks its *beautiful*.... so we will just go with it!

I do appreciate all the feedback and help!!! Thanks again!

 

[Momma2dakidz]

Beth,
I would be more than happy to buy it and send it to you. I know i am a newbie to the dis boards, I have done this in the past and had the items sent to a persons work or church. (i actually played santa for a family on an autism board and sent the items to her church)
It is so hard to find nice equipment for special needs kids (hell adults too for that matter!) Another idea for disney, especially if she is wearing shorts is a "princess" seat cover on her her chair.
Becky (who lives in icky high crime rate NE ohio)

 

[Happymom34]

Newegg.com might have just what you are looking for.

 

[mykidsintow]

I thought newegg was just computer stuffage. Its one of those sites my *cough* nerdy *cough* husband frequents.

Thanks so much for the offer to send us an umbrella! If it was something we truely needed I would be sure and take you up on it! However, she doesn't "need" pink, she just thinks she does. She is happy with her painted one and that will work just fine for something that won't last that long anyway. Sometimes we don't always get exactly what we want and she gets that lesson with this umbrella. A nice blue one will work fine, hehehe! I do appreciate your offer tho!

Thanks again to my staker friend too ! She also made the offer of sending a pink one! I am just plain ole thankful to have found one that will work! I wasn't even sure where to begin when I asked.... I had never even thought of clip on type!

What a great group of DIS friends!!!

OOh and btw my husband isn't really nerdy. I was just kidding, hehehe.

 

[SueM in MN]

Oh and I talked to Special Services and we can take her power chair to Typhoon Lagoon. There are apparently paved paths all around the place and you don't have to go through sand. So that was good. I have made contact (thanks to the DIS boards) with a CM at TL that works in an area they can keep an eye on her chair for us. So that sounds just great to us! I didn't want to tote a stroller for 1 day.

Thanks again everyone!

One thing to be very careful about is the edges of the sidewalk/pathway next to the sand. My DD was using her manual wheelchair at OKW and got one wheel off the sidewalk into the sand. The wheelchair tipped over on the side, luckily with her still in it because she has a seatbelt and foot straps. It was a bit difficult to tip her back the right way, especially since she was laughing, which got me and her sister laughing. She keeps pretty far away from the edge of sidewalks now, though.

 

[mykidsintow]

Oh wow! Julia is usually pretty careful. She has only dropped a tire once off a sidewalk. Since her chair is 300 lbs most of the weight is in the base area (for the hydrolics). It would be very hard to tip it, but if it did tip it would be very dangerous! I will talk to her about being careful on sidewalks! Thanks for the reminder