Well, on the way to Disney, my FIL's truck was hit by someone backing into it and trying to drive away.No major and really just barely minor damage, but it set the mood! Same place, 4 yr old ds head bounced
off the steps of the play place. He laughed after. Remember, both of the kids have autism, so we were
already nervous.
We got there fine, City Hall was very easy to get the guest card. I got it marked to use fastpass
where available and handicapp entrance where it wasn't. We also asked to have it stamped
for stroller used as wheelchair use! We were afraid of my 20 mos old trantruming while we
carried him. We would learn later just how needed that was. The pass was easy to get. I had
both notes from the dr. but truthfully, the guy only skimmed over one and I think that because I
handed it to him. When I said that both boys had autism, he immediatley handed me the paper
and walked away to get the card. He explained that we could not get ahead of the line and other
stuff. Very nice. We used the card that day, but not the stollers. Crazy me! Dh and learned to do it
later that night. (one word of advice, ask them to stamp the card where they can read it. there were
many times I had to point out where it was stamped as he stamped over other words.) For the most
part, it was great. The only problem we had was at Pirates. The guys name was Vernon, so if you see
him, please kick him for me! We walk up with the stollers and he tells us to go into the line with them
and that the line there was mainstreamed, so that was fine. I told him that it was stamped with a separate
entrace pass when mainstreamed, and he refused to agree with me. Told me that this was the only option.
I told him that my kids had autism and would not be able to wait in line after he told me it was about a 25 min
wait. He rudely told me to come back when it was less busy. HA! I never went back. I and yelled at him the
whole time I was walking away. I told him that why I had the card and I was positive that they had an
exit and we we allowed to use that. I should have reported him immediately to a supervisor, but I was upset.
I knew that I would cry and really didn't care to start off our trip badly! HAHAHAHAHA. Excuse me after
I compose myself after that comment. Oh, and another good thing, I called housekeeping and they even
brought me a microwave so I could pop popcorn for ds. One of the 4 things that he eats. Very nice of them.
We weren't even charged for it or the fridge. We also got connecting rooms because of our situation. I
needed my Inlaws to help watch the kids. We explained that we were afraid to use the neverland club
to go out. Everything to set up was very easy! Again, evil laughter from behind me!
From there let me tell you about the bad parts. Funny thing is everything I stressed about didn't happen and
the things I never thought would happen, ruined it! The first night there, we woke up retching noises.
My 20 mos old is puking in the crib! Housekeeping came for there first of about 20 trips that morning.
After pedialite and sleep he finally held something down about 8 hrs later. After getting up and going that
morning, we go to do stuff with the kids (thank goodness for the passes, or we would not have been able
to have time to do the few things that we did). We managed to get Pooh and Peter Pan in. We go on only
our third ride of the day. And as my husband sits behind me on Dumbo, my 4 yr old puked. Yep! on Dumbo!
We rush back to the hotel. That went on all day and night. The next day he seems to be doing better and
kept saying, "let's go". A new phrase for him. What happened on our very brief outing this day was great.
I'll tell you about that later. Anyway, back to the hotel for more 4 yr old puking. Next thing I now, MIL and SIL
are puking too! By the third day of the 4 yr old puking, DH brought him to the clinic. After hours of Phenegran
not working and him still puking and not drinking or eating in 3 days, I decided to bring him to the ER. He lost
8 lbs. He was only 38 lbs anyway. The suggestion from the dr was to wait until the next morning to do anything.
That would have been about 16 hrs later. I decided to act and good thing. He was puking more by the time
we got to the ER and this was after 2 suppositories. Which were supposed to be one every 12 hrs. Anyway,
how do you explain to an autistic child to throw up? He keep swallowing it! Which only made him feel worse.
He was dehydrated and they drew blood, did an IV and took xrays. He finally started eating last night. The ER
trip was Thursday. Needless to say, our trip was shot. The morning after the ER visit, Dh got sick. We did
take the kids out for a bit, but we went were they could only go in AC buildings and had wet rags and pedialite.
This is where the stollers as wheelchairs came in handy. My poor baby was so weak that he could barely stand
for a min.
So, that was the bad stuff.
The good stuff was that we actually got see Buzz and Woody. I walked up with my card to see if it would be
possible to get in without waiting in the 30+ min line. The guy started telling me that wheelchairs can fit in the
line and we can't use it here and blah blah blah. All I said was the guy that was standing here a few min ago
said that it wasn't a problem and my kids had autism and co... OH wait that's a different story, Say no more!
Less than a min later, we were meeting them. And mom and dad are crying. I still get teary thinking about it.
DH hugged the guy. His name was Jeff from Anchorage. He came to check to see if I was okay. He spoke to us
for while and asked us to hang around. He went and bought ds a buzz tshirt with his own money. I really want
to thank him and I will send a very long letter to disney. He was great. That was really about the hilight of
the week. I spent alot of money to see the hotel alot! I didnt' even get to see Animal kingdom or DTD. But
thankfully, we are home and the kids are doing better.
And at one point while DS was resting, we took the 20 mos old out. We saw Safari Steve! I told DH, I know
him! He responded to my post! He was great! And I didn't dare break his character!
We'll go back in about 5 years! And I won't plan on doing a single thing!
tonia
Glad to know they are getting better 
