Assistance from CMs....Am I a crazy person?

[SmithSmith]

DD is CM who is multi-trained including Custodial. I just texted her.

Attractions CM escorts Custodial CM when they arrive to the vomit. They apply the chemical and wait for it to absorb. They sweep it up and remove it. It is disposed in "backstage trash."

Thanks, that was quick! So they didn't say anything about it being properly labeled and disposed of in a red biohazard bag?

 

[HopperFan]

Thanks, that was quick! So they didn't say anything about it being properly labeled and disposed of in a red biohazard bag?

No. She said it is just a trash can but in the backstage area, removing it from the guest area.

 

[huhwhat]

Why was you DH asking the Garden Grill hostess what to do next? What kind of answer were you hoping to get?

You are the child's parents--it's your job to figure out what to do next.

I don't mean to be harsh, I'm genuinely baffled at the question.

The OP was in the land....where a family bath is....passed Morocco......where a family bath is located....went to a resort asking for more help???????? this whole tale is nuts

 

[North of Mouse]

Did not read all these long pages, and barely made it through the OP's long rant, but honest to goodness, what did she expect? When we have children we take the bad with the good (and I know I have). Things like 'puke' happens, and it is our responsibility as mothers (Parents) to handle it, no matter where we are.

She should have taken turns with dh in the restrooms, cleaned the best they could, then head for the exit, the RV, and dry clothing - all in the life of a day being a mother. I don't say this being mean spirited, as I've experienced it myself, and didn't expect others to take care of it.

As for not finding inexpensive clothing - hey, it's Disney, they don't exist!! Besides, the 'only' remedy was a good shower, not just a change of clothes!!

The CM's were not being rude - it wasn't their fault - their jobs were continuing, and they couldn't really help.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Okay --timeout here as I address your points.

Lisa, since we are wondering...why do you care? If it's clear we just aren't going to agree on several key points here, why do you continue to "make points", usually pointing out to the letter EXACTLY what I have done wrong, where I "lose you" or what you would have done differently. Over and over again. You don't seem to want to actually be helpful, just correct. (Not just you, but the same could be said of probably 3-4 others in this thread.)

It is called a discussion board. I am free to discuss as you are. When the majority of folks aren't agreeing with you in full, that is typically a time to self reflect that maybe, just maybe--perspective is needed on your part.

You are right-I am not trying to be helpful--but your incident occurred in November and you did not ask for help. You asked for opinions. I am offering that with my own personal experiences as back drop.

Your condescension that folks aren't reading the thread are silly. We are reading it. It seems you may not be as I get to the next claim of yours...

I mean, granted, I'm defensive at this point, I'll give you that. But this didn't happen to you.

Understandable that you are defendsive especially when posters are providing their own experiences. One has to wonder if you read the thread because your incident did happen to me. Only, I helped myself and got me and my kid to first aid where staff was better equipped to actually ASSIST me, which is what you claim to have expected before going on a lengthy description of lack of compassion.

Oh and there was that explosive puke on the food court.

How did you get through this entire thread and miss where folks shared their experiences of this happening to them and what they did about it?

I had a bad experience, followed up by being attacked on a message board about it for literally every decision I made in the course of the story. But to you, I'm just some rando on a message board.

Nobody "attacked" you. You solicited an opinion and people have them. Just because people do not agree with your observations does not mean it was an attack. If it were, most folks would be overburdened with points and Ossining banned from the boards since "attacks" are not permitted.


The first attack came when you actually told a poster they were worse than the CM. It was uncalled for. The puke incident was 2 months ago, so that type of defensive conduct is not justifiable.

So I'm just wondering...why does it matter so much to you?

Does you incident specifically matter to me? No. Not 2 months later when all has been remedied.

But you posted on a discussion board. I like to discuss. And since you have repeatedly suggested folks weren't reading what you wrote as you failed to actually answer questions--one has to wonder why it matters to you so much to have folks "on your side" and just tell you that you are right and go on about their day. So I have been keeping up on a thread that happens to fascinate me.

ETA: Adding "respectfully" doesn't actually make your responses respectful.

And a vomit event doesn't make you in the right either.
But I did intend my post respectfully. Your posts however seem to be intended otherwise because you don't like other people's opinions.

You have blatently called me selfish (or it was good to make lemons out of lemonade? I'm unclear on that), assumed things I never said, assuming facial expressions when you were never there to see them, You have actually been judgmental and hurtful (though I'm sure I'll be called "oversensitive" for that) without much care. I got a response that you didn't need "admonishment" on a previous post, when I have received little other than that from you.

1. I said it could be argued you leaned selfish. Your posts speak for themselves.
2. Making lemons out of lemonade--this is making the best of a crappy situation and salvaging some positivity. This was me suggesting that if I were I your party what my advice to you would have been. Suck it up and deal with the bad and the move on to make good with the rest. You would be the first person I have ever heard of to be offended by that phrase if you are indeed offended by it.
3. I assumed NOTHING. I said I WONDERED. I.e. If I were a fly on the wall, I would wonder now you came across to all the CMs you encountered. There is no judgement here. It is curious to me how you came across to all these supposed jerky ( in lieu of the profane term you used) CMs you encountered.

You admonished me for not reading your thread correctly. One wonders if you bothered to read if yourself since you seem to cherry pick an awful lot of comments and construe them as attacks and being mean.

You asked an opinion of your situation and I gave one. If you feel that is admonishment, than so be it.

Your demeanor to those who disagree with you is extremely telling. It isn't too much to self reflect that perhaps you are overreacting today over that event 2 months ago.

 

[PrincessMommy09]

We have unfortunately experienced a child vomiting at Disney twice. The first time was 2 years ago. Dd1 was 4 at the time. we were in the imagination pavilion when she started to cough. She was coughing so hard that she started to gag, so I rusherd her outside. As soon as we stepped out the door, she threw up on the pavement. My mom went inside to tell a cm and dh went to find paper towels. Very quickly a manager was outside with towels to clean her up and a cup of water for dd to rinse her mouth. She asked if we needed a change of clothes for dd, I declined because I had extra clothes for her, so she gave us a bag to put the dirty clothes in. She told us about first aid and the baby center and offered to call ems for us. She was kind, caring, and made the situation go smoothly and seem like no big deal.

This past year it was dd2s turn. She threw up all over dh on the way to hs. I was able to clean her up and change her clothes outside the bus while dh went in search of new clothes and a way to clean himself up. He bought expensive new shorts and t-shirt and cleaned up in a bathroom. Later in the day we made another purchase, and a manager was able to adjust the previous purchase to reflect my Disney visa discount. The toughest part was finding more wipes to replace my now empty baby wipes. Mil asked at guest relations, first aid, and the baby center, none of them had wipes. We were finally ab,e to find a store and buy their last two packages of wipes.

The cms are capable of being kind and compassionate during situations like this.

 

[Amanda999]

The OP may or may not still be reading - but just to be clear, not getting the responses one expects in no way makes the responders trolls.

Exactly my thought.

(Feel bad this happens to op, but I find no fault with the CMs. 2 parents for 1 child needing to be cleaned up seems like sufficient manpower. Contrast when I went solo with our two kids. Lost one I swear in a split second! They had many CMs helping me instantly. I was very impressed with the response. This was in August last year at Epcot.)

 

[ilovebassets]

Haven't read every page of the thread, but obviously it got heated (no surprise after reading the first page). Just thought I'd share my opinion.

We were having lunch at Liberty Tree Tavern one day when my five month old had diarrhea all over himself and me. I mean, EVERYWHERE. (The only saving grace was he was exclusively breastfed so it didn't smell.) He and I were simply covered in it. We were only at Magic Kingdom for the day after stopping in Port Canaveral during a Disney cruise, so there was no going back to the resort to change clothes. It would have taken at least two hours from the restaurant back to our cabin, minimum. I guess eating all new foods and rather rich foods for a few days changed my breastmilk. WARNING: REALLY GROSS PART COMING UP. The grossest part was the poop looked like gravy--I was eating the pilgrim's feast at the time. I came uncomfortable close to licking what I thought was gravy off my wrist before realizing that it was in fact poop.

I threw his clothes away in the trash (they were not salvageable), and obviously I had a change of clothes for him being only five months old. As I walked out the restaurant, obviously covered in bodily fluids, a CM in the restaurant found another CM who walked me to a store in Adventureland that sold shorts and dresses in addition to regular shirts. I had to spend WAY too much money on a dress ($60 I think--a few years ago) just to be presentable for the rest of the day. But that's life. At least they had something. I don't expect Disney to compensate me or give me free or even discounted clothes because my kid pooped all over me. And my biggest concern was isolating us from everyone else. Not finding more people to possibly contaminate.

 

[MartDM]

To the OP - I'm so sorry this happened to you. I can only imagine it must have been very embarrassing and just plain gross to have to wander around covered in vomit.

That said though, the continuing theme through your posts seems to be that you really can't articulate what you expected the CMs to do, yet you were dissatisfied with their response. It occurs to me that perhaps the CMs were also not sure what you wanted them to do other than being offered things to help clean you up and directing you to a bathroom to do so...to me that is all that you could really expect of a CM.

Could some of them have been more sympathetic? Sounds like it, but I find that anyone (CM or not) who doesn't have kids and hasn't been through that sort of thing doesn't have much sympathy for those issues.

It's unfortunate that you spent so much time wandering and looking for a solution that simply doesn't exist in the parks...I'm sure it was frustrating. I appreciate you sharing your experience so others who find themselves in that situation will know that the best solution is to return to your resort for clean up and not waste time trying to find a reasonably priced change of clothes and proper cleaning/bathing facilities in the parks.

 

[Itinkso]

For someone to post a thread like this two months after the incident has occurred seems odd to me. Maybe a disclaimer should have been included on the original post that she was only looking for sympathetic responses. If you are begging for attention, why not be upfront about it?

To wait until page 15 or so to claim it was her birthday and that it was or was not their last trip to WDW also seemed odd.

Rather than ask, "Am I a Crazy Person," maybe asking, "Do I Have Mûnchausen by Internet" would have been more appropriate.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I agree, BUT there were posts asking the same questions over and over again.

Because OP failed to answer them.

It wasn't until around page 15 where she answered the pressing question of WHY NOT just return to the room (of in her case RV).

That is when we FINALLY got an answer that it was her birthday trip, last day of her vacation, and they hadn't seen wishes yet. Also, because of expense, it was unknown whenever they would come back.

15 pages of evasiveness in 25+ replies and then she finally shares that tidbit to answer the question of why staying in the parks was her prime goal--hence wandering around EPCOT and the Boardwalk resort area on an elusive hunt for affordable shorts that fit?

It makes sense now--but my opinion would have been the same. Cut your losses and go to the room to make yourself whole again and then head back and salvage the day.

So her calling all these folks trolls is a bit ironic given that answering that question back on page 3-4 would have saved her a lot of grief.

But stooping to the old--"folks agree with me that all y'all are trolls" is an age old tactic on these boards when things don't go your way.

 

[Amanda999]

The OP was in the land....where a family bath is....passed Morocco......where a family bath is located....went to a resort asking for more help???????? this whole tale is nuts

I agree, AND: why even ask about companion bathroom? The child was 1.5! so no matter the child's gender, either of the two parents could have used the bathrooms right there at the Land to clean him or her up.

 

[SmithSmith]

No. She said it is just a trash can but in the backstage area, removing it from the guest area.

Thanks again.

It's understandable, it would be a tremendous cost for a theme park to treat every Code V as a biohazard!

 

[lmcarr49]

I agree, AND: why even ask about companion bathroom? The child was 1.5! so no matter the child's gender, either of the two parents could have used the bathrooms right there at the Land to clean him or her up.

She wanted the companion bathroom so her DH could clean the baby up and she could take her pants off and clean them. She clearly explained that already.

 

[SmithSmith]

Because OP failed to answer them.

It wasn't until around page 15 where she answered the pressing question of WHY NOT just return to the room (of in her case RV).

That is when we FINALLY got an answer that it was her birthday trip, last day of her vacation, and they hadn't seen wishes yet. Also, because of expense, it was unknown whenever they would come back.

15 pages of evasiveness in 25+ replies and then she finally shares that tidbit to answer the question of why staying in the parks was her prime goal--hence wandering around EPCOT and the Boardwalk resort area on an elusive hunt for affordable shorts that fit?

It makes sense now--but my opinion would have been the same. Cut your losses and go to the room to make yourself whole again and then head back and salvage the day.

So her calling all these folks trolls is a bit ironic given that answering that question back on page 3-4 would have saved her a lot of grief.

But stooping to the old--"folks agree with me that all y'all are trolls" is an age old tactic on these boards when things don't go your way.

There are people STILL asking questions that the OP already answered.

I think that her going through this on their last day and her birthday is irrelevant. The OP could've thought so too and that's why they didn't bring it up. Every single day is special day on my WDW vacations. I wouldn't want a single one ruined or missed regardless if it came first or last or landed on a special date.

 

[Luv2Run]

Because OP failed to answer them.

It wasn't until around page 15 where she answered the pressing question of WHY NOT just return to the room (of in her case RV).

That is when we FINALLY got an answer that it was her birthday trip, last day of her vacation, and they hadn't seen wishes yet. Also, because of expense, it was unknown whenever they would come back.

15 pages of evasiveness in 25+ replies and then she finally shares that tidbit to answer the question of why staying in the parks was her prime goal--hence wandering around EPCOT and the Boardwalk resort area on an elusive hunt for affordable shorts that fit?

It makes sense now--but my opinion would have been the same. Cut your losses and go to the room to make yourself whole again and then head back and salvage the day.

So her calling all these folks trolls is a bit ironic given that answering that question back on page 3-4 would have saved her a lot of grief.

But stooping to the old--"folks agree with me that all y'all are trolls" is an age old tactic on these boards when things don't go your way.

I agree - all of this information would have been much more helpful in the first post, but she chose (another choice she made...*eyeroll*) to shade the true reason why she didn't simply return to her resort. Instead, she chose to remain in soiled clothing. She chose to traipse all over Epcot, the BW area, the monorail, the ferry, and MK in that soiled clothing. She chose not to buy the clothing alternatives she found within the parks. She chose going to go see Wishes over taking a much-needed shower & getting a change of clothes (at no extra cost to her) back at the resort.

One cannot blame Disney for choosing NOT to do something that would alleviate your stress/embarrassment/what-have-you.

 

[Luv2Run]

There are people STILL asking questions that the OP already answered.

I think that her going through this on their last day and her birthday is irrelevant. The OP could've thought so too and that's why they didn't bring it up. Every single day is special day on my WDW vacations. I wouldn't want a single one ruined or missed regardless if it came first or last or landed on a special date.

If it was irrelevant, she wouldn't have listed it as a reason why she didn't go to Guest Relations on the day of the incident to report what happened in the hope of being credited back the unused park tickets. But instead, she powered on to MK to go see Wishes since it was the last night of the trip and her birthday, instead of going back for a shower.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

To your companion restroom question: Honestly, the situation (and my son's age) called for both me and my husband to work together to clean him and myself up. It was a big job. But I did end up doing what you suggest you would have done in my situation (proceed to the nearest restroom, etc). It was just a lot harder to do by myself (he was at a weird age of squirming and being upset when changing his diaper...then add vomit). Had I realized sooner that I couldn't feasibly purchase a new pair of pants anywhere, I would have gone back to Fort Wilderness to get a change of clothes, but by that time it had been over an hour (close to two, by the time I broke down crying at Beach Club) and it would have been at least another hour before I could get a bus to FW, then another bus to my campsite. It was at that point my parents said they needed to go back anyway for something else and offered to get me a change of clothes - otherwise I probably would have done that.

And I was definitely apologetic to the guy at the ride. At least, until he treated me like I was crap. Then I just walked away.

And again, the biggest thing that CMs could have done is to not be <word deleted> See above.

She wanted the companion bathroom so her DH could clean the baby up and she could take her pants off and clean them. She clearly explained that already.

Actually her third post in the thread mentioned no such thing.

As she has posted nearly 40x, I don't care to go search for the precise moment she modified her story.


And actually--I did wonder why her husband could not do this. Squirmy or not, that is a set of hands that could have been used while she cared for herself.


Happens to be the same post where she comments on the time consuming task of returning for he campsite. But surely she wasted at least that much time wondering store to store and then the resorts.

And confession-I missed that she mentions her parents are WITH THEM. So among 4 adults, dad and grandpa couldn't get the kid cleaned up while she, maybe with her mom's help, get herself cleaned up?

And all that time will elapse when they will retrieve clothes for her? But her remedy would have been that much sooner had she gone herself and we don't find out why she doesn't until page 15.

Maybe I should reread the thread and see if there are any more inconsistencies.

 

[huhwhat]

no one even mentioned when she just sat in the hallway (still covered in vomit) and cried.....I bet the resort guests at that luxury resort really appreciated that...it;s a horrible way to spend your bday but perhaps six hours earlier you could have gone back to your RV , showered, changed and had your parents babysit....as your siggy suggests, it was not your first time at WDW.....

 

[KrazeeK120]

And confession-I missed that she mentions her parents are WITH THEM. So among 4 adults, dad and grandpa couldn't get the kid cleaned up while she, maybe with her mom's help, get herself cleaned up?

Her parents weren't with them. They were meeting up later.