I hate to even consider it, but I think I need DAS for my January trip. My issue is private and not known among many friends, but I have a neurological disease similar to MS. Even my brother doesn't know about this. My kids (grown) do, and my grandsons know a little since I take them to the fair and things.
I'm doing extremely well, and usually do fine in my day to day life many days. The problem is my legs. Sometimes I do fairly well, and can walk some distance most days. The issue is standing. I can stand sometimes for quite a while, but other times I have to sit down RIGHT NOW or I will collapse- my legs just give up without much warning. This happened in an airport TSA line recently, and I had no choice to sit down at all. I just had about 5 seconds with some tingling in my legs, and knew I was going down. I don't think I could stand still more than about 15 minutes usually, but sometimes it's more and sometimes it's less. Fatigue makes it worse, and I foresee that being an issue at WDW.
Hopefully, I won't even need to use it and it won't be an issue for me.
Anyway, I will be arriving about a day and half before my friend. My understanding is that she has to be seen or her magicband scanned(?) along with me? So I could go on Saturday and get the DAS, but then once she arrives, I would have to do it again.
She knows a little about my illness, but I haven't told her about the falling which would freak her out I"m sure. She likes to "mother" people anyway- feeding me a peanut butter sandwich once when we were traveling together because I looked hungry I guess. We don't see each other often since we don't live near each other, but she will have to be told if I get a DAS.
I'm unsure exactly how to go about this, so any tips would be great!
I'm doing extremely well, and usually do fine in my day to day life many days. The problem is my legs. Sometimes I do fairly well, and can walk some distance most days. The issue is standing. I can stand sometimes for quite a while, but other times I have to sit down RIGHT NOW or I will collapse- my legs just give up without much warning. This happened in an airport TSA line recently, and I had no choice to sit down at all. I just had about 5 seconds with some tingling in my legs, and knew I was going down. I don't think I could stand still more than about 15 minutes usually, but sometimes it's more and sometimes it's less. Fatigue makes it worse, and I foresee that being an issue at WDW.
Hopefully, I won't even need to use it and it won't be an issue for me.
Anyway, I will be arriving about a day and half before my friend. My understanding is that she has to be seen or her magicband scanned(?) along with me? So I could go on Saturday and get the DAS, but then once she arrives, I would have to do it again.
She knows a little about my illness, but I haven't told her about the falling which would freak her out I"m sure. She likes to "mother" people anyway- feeding me a peanut butter sandwich once when we were traveling together because I looked hungry I guess. We don't see each other often since we don't live near each other, but she will have to be told if I get a DAS.
I'm unsure exactly how to go about this, so any tips would be great!