8/17/08 Captain Jack's Repossession Repo Cruise to PC thru TPC #13

[dahuffy]

Me too. Born on the 13th of December, married on the 13th of May.

Debi

Debi,this is getting freaky....I'm Dec. 3rd!

 

[MrsScooby]

Help help help!! Haven't been as active on these boards as I wanted...had a lot of very stressful time consuming things happen last few months. Well, now it all takes the cake.

1) DD9 starts limping really badly. Took her to docs, have xray done. She has a bone deformity called a coalition - a painful bone deformation. surgery is the cure. DH had his heart mitral valve repaired two years ago - we only had my mom and I as caregivers. Full open heart surgery. It was easily a full year recovery - full year of me bring in charge of all...Of course her surgery won't be so scary, but, hey, its my kid and I know I will further age 20 years in one year. At best, she can walk a lot, at worse, since we will delay surgery, she wil be in portable splint, or wheel chair. She is a completely active child, so it will behard for her!! Luckily, its not too painful if she stays off of it.

2) DS12 comes back from Scout Camp. Had a blast. Gotten bitten by a deer tick. Incubation time for Lyme disease symptoms beginning are now until a week after we board the ship. I am thinking of taking him to our doc and getting the meds now, and if he begins to get ill, have the doc on board monitor him. He could give me the go ahead to give the drug, couldn't he?

Any of you brilliant wonderful people personal experts on Lyme disease? What I have read, it looks like we are totally hosed. I THINK, tho, they got the tick off fast. Area where they were camping is one of the highest in the US for lyme disease...

Hey Kathleen,
What rotten luck
Are you gonna take along some pain meds for when DD overdoes it on the cruise
I'm not an expert on Lyme disease, but I know the earlier a person gets those meds the better. Since you know the site to check and will have a doc available to confirm diagnosis, it sounds like a good idea to bring the meds along
I think it takes a while for the tick to transfer the disease so if they got it off quickly (within 24 hours?) he should be fine.

Sounds like you and your family will really need this vacation

 

[lbgraves]

Shawn got his new heart!!!!


OK, that means nothing to you...DS9 has a good buddy from Alaska who was born with a heart defect. Great kid, great family. DS's entire K class and most of the school did the local Heart Walk and the school still does it every year for Shawn. Towards the end of 1st grade, Shawn was accepted into the heart transplant program at Stanford. We did fundraisers, we've send cards, we've prayed. FOR TWO AND A HALF YEARS of his 9 years, Shawn and his mom have been LIVING at the Ronald McDonald House in CA waiting for a heart (while his dad & 2 sisters stayed in Alaska). Two and a half years!!

Of course, we all know that a family had to go through the unthinkable in order for this to happen. Shawn's donor was 7 years old.

I read the article to DS this morning. He looked and DH and me & went to get us tissues.

Prayers that his body adjusts to his new heart quickly and stops trying to reject it. Prayers also for the family who lost their child. It is a miracle that he will continue to live on in Shaun.

 

[tom31b]

Now, I'm crying too. What a great story.

When are you moving home, & do you take house guests? Those pictures are fabulous.

My wife was asking if we could visit also

 

[luvmy3sons]

Good Morning everyone. I have to say AAAGGGHHH!!!! I thought I was doing pretty good - I thought I had bought most things on my packing list - NOT! As I was putting things in the suite case and crossing them off my list, I realized that I STILL NEED LOTS MORE STUFF! The good part is that the boys are gone and my husband is working a double shift today so I will have all day to get my carp together.


Penny

 

[Stepht5]

Did she like it? I'm afraid to start it as I really don't have the time to read it right now
Plus I'm afraid I won't like the ending

I think dd is trying to hold finishing the book -- to make it last! Here are a couplr of pics that they took Friday night ---

This is one she took of herself while she was waiting in line to buy the book, it's funny that you can't see anyone but, her in the pic since their were 900 people in the store!!!

This is one of a few of the girls they went with......24dd is onthe far left (wearing one of 17dd's dress that she bought for the cruise. ), and 17ddis the 2nd from the right. 17dd is wearing ballet flats and leaning down and all of hte other girls are wearing about 3 inch heels! LOL! For some reason alot of her friends are quite short and she is pretty tall.....

 

[MrsScooby]

Shawn got his new heart!!!!


OK, that means nothing to you...DS9 has a good buddy from Alaska who was born with a heart defect. Great kid, great family. DS's entire K class and most of the school did the local Heart Walk and the school still does it every year for Shawn. Towards the end of 1st grade, Shawn was accepted into the heart transplant program at Stanford. We did fundraisers, we've send cards, we've prayed. FOR TWO AND A HALF YEARS of his 9 years, Shawn and his mom have been LIVING at the Ronald McDonald House in CA waiting for a heart (while his dad & 2 sisters stayed in Alaska). Two and a half years!!

Of course, we all know that a family had to go through the unthinkable in order for this to happen. Shawn's donor was 7 years old.

I read the article to DS this morning. He looked and DH and me & went to get us tissues.

OMG, how awesome for Shawn and his family. DH's cousin got a lung transplant after waiting for years and she is doing fine now. Really amazing how science can take a tragedy and use it to save someone else's life. They are working on making new organs with a person's own cells, but not there yet.

No, no. Alaska is horrible and ugly...every one stay away. It's dark, hotels are made of igloos. Bears live in neighborhoods. Keep out.

Can I go home now??

Top one was taken from my driveway, bottom one from my front porch.

No wonder you are so homesick Really beautiful pics

 

[renegade7]

I know those of you in Concierge have been told and it was discussed on the last thread, and I noted it but then my computer died and I lost it. Can someone please remind me what the dinning rotations are?

Can you all tell with my questions I am working on my OCD spreadsheet?

 

[AndyR]

Yikes!!!, I've lost my home office to a hoard of invading postcards

Yesterday we went and bought 72 postcards for the Kids meet-n-greet. Last night I experimented printing DD's message on the back, both with the laser printer and the HP inkjet. Trouble is, the paper is shiny. The laser doesn't really work, and the inkjet takes forever to dry.

My home office is now home to 72 drying postcards - every horizontal surface is spoken for

Things we do for our kids.

Andy

 

[sushilover]

DH, DS (12) and I will be joining you on the cruise. Just canceled our excursion to Sea Life Park in Puerto Vallarta resulting in changes to plans in Cabo and Acapulco as well.

 

[MrsScooby]

Morning, everyone -- happy friendship day and 2 weeks until the cruise!

We are having a NYC pirate meet today -- I will try to post photos later today or tomorrow.

Ohhh, so jealous
Good pizza and good friends
Can't wait to see your pics

DH, DS (12) and I will be joining you on the cruise. Just canceled our excursion to Sea Life Park in Puerto Vallarta resulting in changes to plans in Cabo and Acapulco as well.

WELCOME ABOARD
What are you doing before the cruise and in the ports ?

 

[GoofyontheHiSeas]

Help help help!! Haven't been as active on these boards as I wanted...had a lot of very stressful time consuming things happen last few months. Well, now it all takes the cake.

1) DD9 starts limping really badly. Took her to docs, have xray done. She has a bone deformity called a coalition - a painful bone deformation. surgery is the cure. DH had his heart mitral valve repaired two years ago - we only had my mom and I as caregivers. Full open heart surgery. It was easily a full year recovery - full year of me bring in charge of all...Of course her surgery won't be so scary, but, hey, its my kid and I know I will further age 20 years in one year. At best, she can walk a lot, at worse, since we will delay surgery, she wil be in portable splint, or wheel chair. She is a completely active child, so it will behard for her!! Luckily, its not too painful if she stays off of it.

2) DS12 comes back from Scout Camp. Had a blast. Gotten bitten by a deer tick. Incubation time for Lyme disease symptoms beginning are now until a week after we board the ship. I am thinking of taking him to our doc and getting the meds now, and if he begins to get ill, have the doc on board monitor him. He could give me the go ahead to give the drug, couldn't he?

Any of you brilliant wonderful people personal experts on Lyme disease? What I have read, it looks like we are totally hosed. I THINK, tho, they got the tick off fast. Area where they were camping is one of the highest in the US for lyme disease...

Here is the CDC reference on Lyme's Disease

For prevention of Lyme disease after a recognized tick bite, routine use of antimicrobial prophylaxis or serologic testing is not recommended (E-III). A single dose of doxycycline may be offered to adult patients (200 mg dose) and to children 8 years of age (4 mg/kg up to a maximum dose of 200 mg) (B-I) when all of the following circumstances exist: (a) the attached tick can be reliably identified as an adult or nymphal I. scapularis tick that is estimated to have been attached for 36 h on the basis of the degree of engorgement of the tick with blood or of certainty about the time of exposure to the tick; (b) prophylaxis can be started within 72 h of the time that the tick was removed; (c) ecologic information indicates that the local rate of infection of these ticks with B. burgdorferi is 20%; and (d) doxycycline treatment is not contraindicated. The time limit of 72 h is suggested because of the absence of data on the efficacy of chemoprophylaxis for tick bites following tick removal after longer time intervals. Infection of 20% of ticks with B. burgdorferi generally occurs in parts of New England, in parts of the mid-Atlantic States, and in parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin, but not in most other locations in the United States. Whether use of antibiotic prophylaxis after a tick bite will reduce the incidence of HGA or babesiosis is unknown.

 

[Caropooh]

YIKES!!!! Never be gone over 24 hours from your computer around you guys! I have 25 pages to ketchup on!

 

[sushilover]

Mrs. Scooby - thank you for the welcome. We are staying at flying into SNA on Thurs, Aug 14 and staying at DLH. We arranged for a car to take us to the port on Sun. morning since I need to board early to get Palo brunch and tea reservations. Hopefully, I can change our Palo dinner also as we are scheduled for 6:30 PM in Puerto Vallarta.
After the Palo reservations, I need to go to the excursions desk to see if we can get earlier times for the Dolphin Encounter in Cabo (currently 2:30 - 4 PM). Would also like to do the Historic Towns and Tequilla excursion in PV but we won't be back in time for Palo dinner. So we are currently on the Paradise Beach Village excursion in PV. We also have 4:00 PM facial (DH) and massage (me) appointments at Millenium Massage in the Marina area (the other location for the Krystal massages). Nothing planned for Acapulco yet although we are probably going to walk to the fort and outdoor markets.

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

DH, DS (12) and I will be joining you on the cruise. Just canceled our excursion to Sea Life Park in Puerto Vallarta resulting in changes to plans in Cabo and Acapulco as well.

Welcome!!!

 

[sushilover]

Thank you.

 

[LITTLEKID58]

DH, DS (12) and I will be joining you on the cruise. Just canceled our excursion to Sea Life Park in Puerto Vallarta resulting in changes to plans in Cabo and Acapulco as well.

Welcome aboard just jump right in....

 

[dahuffy]

DH, DS (12) and I will be joining you on the cruise. Just canceled our excursion to Sea Life Park in Puerto Vallarta resulting in changes to plans in Cabo and Acapulco as well.

Like I said so many times before...Welcome to the Family!!"

 

[dahuffy]

Nothing planned for Acapulco yet although we are probably going to walk to the fort and outdoor markets.

There's a group of 70+ Pirates that are planning on doing the same thing!

 

[JoiseyMom]

I don't think we need to be overly OCP'ers. The bus company has the list of hotels & the number of passengers for each hotel - everyone has been sent a pm about the buses arriving at 8:30am. The buses will go to each hotel. Everyone is an experienced traveler/adult. When one books a shuttle for pick-up at a hotel - one just is outside w/luggage awaiting the shuttle (or in this case the Coach Skyline bus) to arrive.

I honestly believe that everyone can take responsibility to be outside the hotel w/luggage and get on the bus.

BTW - I spoke at length w/the bus company rep today - and there are 4 buses - there is no "1st stop" per se.

Please just relax - be ready to be picked up at 8:30 - and when you see the beautiful Coach Skyline bus pull up - you'll be ready to be transported to the Port and the TOAL!!!!!!!

Hmmm...I never got a PM about the 8:30 AM pickup time, I did read it here though