Disney Wonder Sept 3-7, 2006 Part 2

[SueM in MN]

I feel stupid and this is off-topic, but I'm scared to post over on the DISabilities board. I figured I'd bounce this off you guys and hopefully get some opinions.

I was forced to rent a wheelchair last year at Disneyland because of my feet. I've been in physical therapy for plantar fasciitis, and they told me that I could resume normal activities, but I worked at the Renaissance Festival this weekend, and now I don't think I can treat WDW as "normal". The pain on Saturday was tolerable, but I was barely able to walk on Sunday and spent most of the day sitting on the thrones while the royal court was away. I wore my special shoes with their special insoles! I spent most of yesterday off my feet, but today they're *still* significantly swollen. I can't seem to get the swelling to go down, and I've taken over-the-counter medication. I don't want to get a wheelchair, but am I deluding myself? I know I'm fat, and I know that's a big factor, but I swear that I'm trying to get more active and lose weight. Would it be wrong of me to rent a wheelchair? Should I try to tough it out? It's such an expensive vacation, I hate to spoil it with my inability to keep up.

Thanks for listening, guys.

Since you are not coming to us, I am coming to you.
Here is something I posted in response to someone who asked a similar question on the disABILITIES Board:

Quote:
Originally Posted by Esmk
II swore I would not get an ecv because I did not want my kids to remember that for their first trip. But this week, a month before our trip, my health has flared. End Quote

I've got a question for you to think about.
Would you rather have your kids remember a first trip with a parent who was using an ECV and was able to do things and be fun or remember seeing their parent in pain?

Maybe you would do the same things anyway, but the end result with the ECV would be doing them in comfort. Walking around in pain is just going to create more pain. My kids are older, but some of their early memories of WDW include watching their grandpa hobble around the parks, icing his knees after a day in the parks and sitting on a bench in a central place and not be able to enjoy the park with them. The last few trips before he died include memories of him using an ECV and really being included in the fun.

My youngest DD can't walk at all and her first wheelchair was a freedom machine for her. I know some other parents of kids like her felt like the wheelchair was a depressing thing for them. It never was for us. We looked at it the same way as glasses - a way to do things that she would not otherwise be able to do. I might have a different perspective because without glasses, I can see clearly only about 5 inches away from my face (I even put my glasses on at night to get up in the dark). But, at least to me, ECVs and wheelchairs are glasses for the body.

 

[Piecey]

It was painful just reading that! It sounds confusing and just plain dumb. I support you in living off campus and saving you time and effort.

Haha, yep.. I hate being up there.
I realllllly want to just make it easy and go since it's the main branch of where I go now and it's simple.. they've got a law school, I want to go to law school.
But my hatred of Morgantown might stop me..
I do however reallllllly want to join the band. O man, O man.. do I want to join the band..

 

[purplern]

hmmm that could work. i can't imagine going much deeper. i'm only allowed to go 60 ft... but then i'm paying for a camera and for it to be developed. maybe i'll just look into finding a casing. it will probably be cheaper in the long run cause i know i'll use it. and then i can take pictures of what i want and develop just the ones i want...

It might be!

 

[Piecey]

I think only Tag leave colored text, Heidi...

 

[purplern]

purplern - as a warning, the "cooling box" is really tiny and not much more than cool. It should be fine for a few small things that you don't need to be ice cold though.

That's fine it would just be for left over cheese and fruit from our fruit tray.

 

[PirateCutie05]

I think only Tag fairies leave colored text, Heidi...

What does that mean?

 

[purplern]

We had the same thing! When he started having them, he wasn't light sensitive and he didn't see "auras". That, and the doctor felt he was too young. My DD was 4 when he started having migraines. Then I had the audacity to tell her that I had looked up juvenile migraines online. She informed me that that's why doctors went to medical school and she was sure it was strep throat. The strep test came back negative, but she still insisted. It took me nearly a year of a migraine every month before I found someone who would believe me. Not that it helped, since he couldn't really take any medications. But I guess he's 12 now, so maybe he can start taking medications. I'm hoping they'll go away.

I actually went and looked at the chewables, and I guess now that he's 12 he's expected to take the adult doses anyway. He can swallow pills, he's just very stubborn about it. I think he'd rather suffer through the pain--go figure.

Dawn

Maybe try the caplets. They arent as fat as the pills and might slide down better.

 

[Piecey]

Hahaha I can't spell..

I don't know who they are but they're people who take funny things you've said and put it under your username in color??

I've never been tagged but I know lots of people try tos ay clever things on here in the hopes of a tag fairy spotting it!

 

[purplern]

Since you are not coming to us, I am coming to you.
Here is something I posted in response to someone who asked a similar question on the disABILITIES Board:

Quote:
Originally Posted by Esmk
II swore I would not get an ecv because I did not want my kids to remember that for their first trip. But this week, a month before our trip, my health has flared. End Quote

I've got a question for you to think about.
Would you rather have your kids remember a first trip with a parent who was using an ECV and was able to do things and be fun or remember seeing their parent in pain?

Maybe you would do the same things anyway, but the end result with the ECV would be doing them in comfort. Walking around in pain is just going to create more pain. My kids are older, but some of their early memories of WDW include watching their grandpa hobble around the parks, icing his knees after a day in the parks and sitting on a bench in a central place and not be able to enjoy the park with them. The last few trips before he died include memories of him using an ECV and really being included in the fun.

My youngest DD can't walk at all and her first wheelchair was a freedom machine for her. I know some other parents of kids like her felt like the wheelchair was a depressing thing for them. It never was for us. We looked at it the same way as glasses - a way to do things that she would not otherwise be able to do. I might have a different perspective because without glasses, I can see clearly only about 5 inches away from my face (I even put my glasses on at night to get up in the dark). But, at least to me, ECVs and wheelchairs are glasses for the body.

Food for thought!

Never thought of it that way!

 

[taeja71]

Maybe try the caplets. They arent as fat as the pills and might slide down better.

Ouch, your making my throat hurt. Turning in early, night all.

 

[PirateCutie05]

Hahaha I can't spell..

I don't know who they are but they're people who take funny things you've said and put it under your username in color??

I've never been tagged but I know lots of people try tos ay clever things on here in the hopes of a tag fairy spotting it!

Ahh...gotcha. Thanks!

 

[purplern]

Night all!

 

[PirateCutie05]

Ouch, your making my throat hurt. Turning in early, night all.

Goodnight, Taeja!

 

[Piecey]

No problemo

Good night all.

So.. the beach you're close to.. is OBX right? Thats where my parents always vacation at, in Kill Devil Hills.

 

[PirateCutie05]

Night all!

Hehe and goodnight, Vicki!

Anyone else need a goodnight?

 

[PirateCutie05]

No problemo

Good night all.

So.. the beach you're close to.. is OBX right? Thats where my parents always vacation at, in Kill Devil Hills.

Umm...I'm not sure how close I am to OBX. Lemme go check real quick. The beaches I am closest to are Wrightsville, 5-10 min drive, Carolina Beach, about 20 minutes, and Kure Beach which Carolina kinda turns into I think? and that's like 40 minutes away I guess? Hehe lemme go check out OBX. I was acutally supposed to go there last year for a surfing trip but it didn't happen. So I've never been there.

We usually go to Wrightsville cause it's the closest.

 

[PirateCutie05]

Wow! Outer Banks is like a 5 hour drive from my school. Dang! Wouldn't have guessed that...seeing as how it's a 6 hour drive from my house to UNCW...

 

[Piecey]

Wow, that does seem crazy.
I think it's a 7 hour drive from me, though.

 

[PirateCutie05]

Wow, that does seem crazy.
I think it's a 7 hour drive from me, though.

Yes but 7 hours makes sense for you...you're in West Virginia. I feel like I'm right there! I thought it would be a 2-2 and a half hour trip tops!

 

[Piecey]

Yeah.. I have a friend at Lenoir Rhyne in Statesville and it takes me about 4, 4 and a half hours to get to her.