Ooh ooh ooh! Best idea! Oct 4, I'm off at Expo (that's not the idea). The guys land, take Magical Express to PORiverside, then head off to downtown disney, by boat, for Disney Quest! (AKA take DME to POR then to DTD for DQ)
We never took the boat to DTD from OKW or POR, so this will be a new experience. Since the kiddo and I have so many new experiences together, both during our normal days and while the hubster is on trips, I like giving them some time to have new stuff together too. Taking the boat AND entering DQ together will be very cool for them. And it's included in our PAPs, so why not? Then I'll somehow make my way to DTD once I'm done at the Expo, and we'll have dinner.
Oh yes, best idea. 
If none of that made sense, by the way, do forgive me. I was up probably more than half the night, with extremely fractured sleep, because the kiddo is both losing a canine tooth and seems to be sick. Teething for him has ALWAYS been very hard on him, and I got all nostalgic about what he/we went through getting those baby-canines (got 'em all at once, joy oh joy). Makes sense that losing them will be rough, too. The sickness might just be from the tooth (it is his pattern) but then we've been around a LOT of different kids this week (saw two movies at the theater, just as a start), so who knows. He woke up sooo sick last night he was even making ME think "hospital", but luckily my magic bullet not-really-a-tea helped him immensely. (water, apple cider vinegar, raw honey, turmeric and cayenne...should have had lemon too but I didn't have lemons) It was pretty spicy for him at first but he's OK with spicy. As he drank it he got visibly and audibly better (his voice was really messed up b/c his throat was inflamed). Amazing. DH and DS swapped sleeping situations so I could keep an eye/ear on him, and so I was up quite a lot last night.
Exhausted. Even all of that above stuff might not be in English. I have no idea.
In other news, I'm back to assisting the MIL. For the newbies, last Fall she had a series of strokes. The only obvious lasting issues are some memory loss* and 1/4 vision loss**. I was there nearly 24/7 for her during her hospitalizations, but as soon as she started feeling better and didn't have any further strokes (total of 6 we know of...3 ER visits, 4 admissions related to the ER visits, and one in the hospital room while alone with me as I frantically pressed the call button and was TOTALLY ignored despite the nurse's station being right outside the room), she booted me.
At some point during the Fall we realized that her supplemental insurance doesn't cover the hospital she was transferred to twice, so I'd been waiting and waiting for the bills. There was an ambulance bill issue, but she kept saying that BIL's ex partner (don't even ask... I can kvetch for hours about that man) was taking care of it.
This week, finally, she called me. And I got right on top of it ('cuz I'm awesome). Turns out the ambulance bill and the out-of-network hospital bill were for about the same amount, and she was so confused about it all (
for the newbies, she's Korean-born, isn't fluent in English and it's gotten worse since FIL died in '06, and reads only the most essential bits of English like street and store signs, but mostly goes from landmarks when driving...she once caused their water bill to be hundreds in the POSITIVE because every time they told her she was X dollars positive, she thought it was another bill and paid it, and that lasted for 6 months until she finally got desperate enough to talk to my husband about it...and that was years before the strokes, so you can only imagine what it's like now) that she didn't know what to do.
BIL's ex has been "working on it" since December or so. From everyone I spoke with on Monday and Tuesday, there is no indication whatsoever that he EVER phoned in. She's being sent to collections by the hospital. Who knows what the ambulance company is about to do. When they call her, she can't understand them. And it causes her GREAT stress. She's had 3 heart attacks (that we know of) in her life, she's a highly stressed person, and doesn't need this. (if only she called people in at the beginning...and by "people" I mean "people who have a reason to care about her, unlike an EX partner of a child")
In two days I figured it all out. And I've got everything in motion for it to be taken care of. If everything works out right, we'll have the EMTALA form from the in-network hospital to show the supplemental insurance why she had to be transferred to the out-of-network hospital so supplemental will pay for the deductible, and the ambulance company will submit a proper claim to medicare then supplemental, and that will be taken care of as well.
Fingers crossed!
*Memory...after the last stroke she basically forgot that she had come to like me, and forgot that she dislikes BIL's new partner. this is great for the new partner but rotten for me (he's the new one, he should go through what I went through, LOL). You could see her dislike of me in her eyes, and it caused some serious tears when I was alone, after working my booty off, and even going to get her during the last stroke b/c the ambulance company REFUSED to go to the hospital with the intensive stroke care unit where the "close" hospital kept sending her.
She didn't just forget that she likes me, but massive parts of the last 10+ years, including our wedding (the only proper wedding any of her children have had), lots of DS's life, and who knows how many other things. She forgets from moment to moment. She has REFUSED to make any money available, or to apply for aid, to have an aide come in to make sure she takes her medications, and the slapdash situation she had put in place to placate people fell apart inside the first 2 weeks, so we have NO idea if/when she takes her pills or eats proper food or anything. She needs to keep the money that could help her with an aide so that she can get her super-expensive skin creams...seriously. Her face looks amazing, her skin glows...but she's getting sicker and sicker and will someday forget something major and possibly kill herself and others...and we cannot do a single thing about it.
She called last week and asked if DH was on a work trip. I said no, but that he probably wasn't answering the phone because he was on the bus. Monday she asked about his work trip and I said no, he's just at work, no trip but that he was leaving on Saturday. Tuesday she explained that she called me because she doesn't call him on trips, and I explained that he's not on a trip and she can call him, but on this trip he's still in the States and will have his normal phone on, and she can call him.
Not half hour later she called him, happy that she could call him
while he's on a trip. And it took a few MINUTES for him to convince her that he isn't on a trip and was just in Seattle. Memory and comprehension have been majorly affected, but she covers it while at the doctors' offices, so they just don't see what we see. She continues to be worried that we will shove her in some poorhouse nursing home if she shows weakness at the hospital and also refuses to live with anyone, even though we actually are willing to find a house where she could live with us (as painful as it would be for all of us).
**Vision...during the very first stroke, apparently an embolus of something like calcium shot from near her heart up into a retinal artery. No one realized this until 3 days later when we took her to an eye appointment, she covered an eye, and said "I can't see". Joy. Went straight to a retinal specialist and discovered that it had eliminated the vision in one half of one eye.
I'm so glad she decided to start driving again.
The instant we got on the plane for our Feb trip she got a ride to BIL's and made him get her car out (he's a car-oholic and had parked her car 3 deep in his sideyard).
But he did manage to secure a flight home the night before the annual company picnic, so I don't have to show up at his boss's house that morning demanding that he take me and DS to it. (you have to be with someone with an employee badge to get in) Since I live for the summer picnic and the January party, it's really important that hubby is here for it. And even better, he'll still be in town the following weekend for our 10th wedding anniversary! But really, it's that picnic that was the important part. (which he knows and thinks is funny, and even his boss knows how important the picnic is to me...his company requires tons of flexibility on the part of employees and families, and I'm fine with flexibility as long as they KNOW my breaking point...and missing that picnic is a breaking point...gotta get my Picnic t-shirt every year!)
Losing memory is the hardest thing to go though. Sound's like you are an awesome daughter-in-law. Hugs.
sounds like a man. 
re- the whole MIL situation, my first MIL was from Sicily, believe me there are many similarities with the cultures and the feelings about their DILs ( We aren't real Italians because my Dad was born in US and ex-DH was born there Okay ?????!!!!!) 
Good for you !
My problem is/was I have great running shoes but for work have crappy shoes, they were killing my feet 
holy Frankenstein ! This is an adventure for sure
