Anal Annie
at least I KNOW I'm a kook...I just can't help it
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My head is spinning and my gut has a giant pit in it. My DS16 just suddenly developed something called a Spontaneous Pneumothorax yesterday. Essentially, it's a hole in his lung that is letting air out into his chest cavity and it's putting pressure on his lung so that it's hard for him to breathe. (He's a swimmer and the doc thinks it may have happened after his coach had all the kids go down to the bottom of the diving well to pose for an underwater pic.) So we are in for a series of doctors appts. & chest xrays every couple of days to watch this thing - it will hopefully close up & heal on its own within a week or two - BUT in the meantime HE IS NOT ALLOWED TO FLY anytime soon!!
So, after months & months of saving & planning & booking activities & such it ain't gonna happen this year.
Since we were orig. scheduled to leave on Aug. 3rd I called DVC this afternoon to check out our options. I figured no flying didn't mean no DRIVING to FL. I was able to find a 1-bedroom available at SSR for 9 nights beginning on Aug. 10th so I cancelled our 4 nights in studios at VGC and our 7 nights at Aulani and we'll only loose 6 points (we have a Dec UY so we would have had to use all of them by Nov. 30th). I haven't called Starwood yet to see what the deal is with our reservation on Maui that we booked with Starwood points. That's probably a loss. And the rental car on Oahu that I booked thru Priceline is a loss. Not sure about our Pearl Harbor ressie - that's probably also a loss. I think I can cancel the surf lessons w/o a penalty tho. And now we have 4 days of DL park hoppers to get rid of and we'll have to buy WDW AP's ($$$) when we get there. But I didn't want to WASTE 313 points and driving seems to be the only option!! Sigh.
Then I called the airlines. Alaska Air was GREAT. I love them and haven't even flown with them yet. They gave me no trouble cancelling and for only a $100 pp fee we have until next August to travel on them. We had the bulk of our flights booked on them which is lucky and hopefully we can try to rebook this trip for NEXT summer. Delta, not so much luck. We had them booked for our flight from LA to HNL. They're giving me a credit to rebook AND TRAVEL BY January 27th of next year (1 yr. from purchase - not likely we can tho unless we can slip in a quickie trip sometime). Hawaiian Air wants me to fax a note from the pulmonologist and then they will likely give me a refund (whew).
I was glad that there was SOMETHING available at WDW tho - but I would've liked to have pushed it back just a little further to be on the safe side for traveling - but I ran into no availability at all on Aug 19 & 20 - so everybody just please cross your fingers that this pneumothorax thing heals enough over the next week or so that he is OK to travel by the 10th. I just really, really don't want to have to go thru this vacation cancellation business again. I am afraid to get too excited for anything at this point. It has been an exhausting couple of days and I just felt the need to vent.
So, after months & months of saving & planning & booking activities & such it ain't gonna happen this year.Since we were orig. scheduled to leave on Aug. 3rd I called DVC this afternoon to check out our options. I figured no flying didn't mean no DRIVING to FL. I was able to find a 1-bedroom available at SSR for 9 nights beginning on Aug. 10th so I cancelled our 4 nights in studios at VGC and our 7 nights at Aulani and we'll only loose 6 points (we have a Dec UY so we would have had to use all of them by Nov. 30th). I haven't called Starwood yet to see what the deal is with our reservation on Maui that we booked with Starwood points. That's probably a loss. And the rental car on Oahu that I booked thru Priceline is a loss. Not sure about our Pearl Harbor ressie - that's probably also a loss. I think I can cancel the surf lessons w/o a penalty tho. And now we have 4 days of DL park hoppers to get rid of and we'll have to buy WDW AP's ($$$) when we get there. But I didn't want to WASTE 313 points and driving seems to be the only option!! Sigh.
Then I called the airlines. Alaska Air was GREAT. I love them and haven't even flown with them yet. They gave me no trouble cancelling and for only a $100 pp fee we have until next August to travel on them. We had the bulk of our flights booked on them which is lucky and hopefully we can try to rebook this trip for NEXT summer. Delta, not so much luck. We had them booked for our flight from LA to HNL. They're giving me a credit to rebook AND TRAVEL BY January 27th of next year (1 yr. from purchase - not likely we can tho unless we can slip in a quickie trip sometime). Hawaiian Air wants me to fax a note from the pulmonologist and then they will likely give me a refund (whew).
I was glad that there was SOMETHING available at WDW tho - but I would've liked to have pushed it back just a little further to be on the safe side for traveling - but I ran into no availability at all on Aug 19 & 20 - so everybody just please cross your fingers that this pneumothorax thing heals enough over the next week or so that he is OK to travel by the 10th. I just really, really don't want to have to go thru this vacation cancellation business again. I am afraid to get too excited for anything at this point. It has been an exhausting couple of days and I just felt the need to vent.
Not sure WHY. But that's the profile of who this happens to (my DS is 16, 5' 10" and only 113 Lbs.)!! Kinda odd profile, huh?
