Let the Memories Begin--A Mother/Son Adventure of a Lifetime!-update 8/6-17 the end!

[jeremysdisneymom]

We are back!!! It was a great 8 days in the world and hated to come home to reality!!!

I have a lot to get caught up on here at work. I hope to upload my photos tonight and start the trip this week!!! I hope I can keep up with two trip reports at once.

I had hoped to send some of you some photos along the way but my phone was not behaving well. Please forgive me.

 

[MEK]

Glad to hear you had such a great trip! Welcome home!

 

[disneyfan61]

Glad to hear you had a great trip!! I will be gone in a few days so will need to get caught up when I get back. Please post a link on this TR to your new one!!

 

[MeMom]

I hope I can keep up with two trip reports at once.

You'd be doing much better than we do. We barely keep up with one.

Glad you had a good time!

 

[Kat in GA]

Welcome back!! Can't wait to hear about your trip!

I am so glad that I got to see you again - and many thanks for waiting for us to arrive - wonder when we'll be able to run into each other again?!

 

[martinolichfamily]

Yay!
Glad y'all are back and had a great time! Can't wait to hear all about it!

 

[SoonerGirl]

Hi Erika, from the world's worst DISer!

I've been MIA for MONTHS, but I'm slowly getting caught up on trip reports. I finished reading your summer report this morning, then moved on to this one.

Sounds like you guys are having a really good time so far. Your room view is scary though - that clown!

Congrats on booking the cruise, you are going to love it!

That is so sweet that Jeremy bought you the bracelet you were looking at, what a great kid!

Glad to hear you had a great Easter trip!

 

[jeremysdisneymom]

Hi Erika, from the world's worst DISer!

I've been MIA for MONTHS, but I'm slowly getting caught up on trip reports. I finished reading your summer report this morning, then moved on to this one.

Sounds like you guys are having a really good time so far. Your room view is scary though - that clown!

Congrats on booking the cruise, you are going to love it!

That is so sweet that Jeremy bought you the bracelet you were looking at, what a great kid!

Glad to hear you had a great Easter trip!

Yay, Michelle is back! I think I am right there with you about being the worst diser. Why is that you need a vacation when you come back from one!!!

I am really excited about the cruise. This is all so new to me but I know we will have lots of fun.

I am getting ready to post and update before the day is over.....

 

[jeremysdisneymom]

A Little Life Update!

Well, life can sometimes really get in my way of Dising. It has been go, go, go since we got back. My boss has been away on medical leave so I have been pulling double duty ever since and I find that I can't get caught up here at work. We won't even mention home as nothing is getting done there either!!!

School is starting to wind down (which I am totally happy about!!) but Jeremy has kept me hopping with projects, events, etc.

But, honestly, the real reason I haven't been on much is that I haven't been feeling well. I haven't shared this with my family so you won't see anything on FB about it but I wanted to share it with my Dis friends. Only a few friends at work and Tom knows what is going on.

I started having trouble in my left shoulder/arm while we were at Disney. I have had trouble before and the doctor has always thought it was a problem where the tendons were getting out of the grooves they are in and need time to get back in place. Well, the pain started and got horribly worse after I rode ToT (yes, I finally rode it!!!! ) So, for the rest of the trip, I had a good time but was really hurting in my arm. It was a different kind of pain than before. The 14 hour ride home just about got the best of me. I couldn't help Tom drive and was in constant pain the entire way. I went to the doctor the week we got back and he put me on a round of steroids. He was sure it was a pinched nerve in my neck. The steroids didn't phase it so I went back and had an MRI this week.

Throughout this time, I have since started having headaches and the pain is now going into my hand. I am exhausted when I leave work and often times the only relief I am getting is to lie in bed with the arm flat. So, most evenings and weekends are spent with me in bed. I have seen so many movies, shows in the last week that I am sick of TV.

I got the results from the MRI yesterday. There are 2 disks in my neck that have shifted to the left. It is not bad and can be treated with therapy. However, they had found a mass laying near two other disks that has the doctor concerned. He said that it would be indicative of someone who has chronic rheumatoid arthritis which I don't have so it can't be that. He is not sure what it is. It could be nothing. He is sending me to a neurosurgeon so they will not start the therapy until they figure out what this is. Of course, my mind is thinking the worse. It is hard not too.

Thanks for letting me share this with you. I needed to get it off my chest and really didn't want people around home knowing.

Please keep me in your prayers. I am going to try to update this report as I find the time and feel able. Plus, I want to start the new trip as we had such a good time and experienced some new things. And, I am going to try and get caught up on all of your great trips.

 

[DisMomAmy]

Oh Erika! I'm so sorry you've been going through this! I hope you get some answers (and some relief) very, very soon! I love having the DIS here to share things that you can't share with the rest of the real world. Please keep us updated!!

 

[Kat in GA]

Oh, wow - how scary! I will keep you in my thoughts an prayers - and please do keep us posted!!

 

[MeMom]

Hope those wise doctors find a quick fix for you. Sorry to hear you were hurting during the trip. I know how hard things were before I had my knee surgery. I let it go and let it go until it felt like there was an open boxcutter inside my knee, and every step was so painful. I knew I couldn't let it go any longer.

We are definitely looking forward to seeing trip pictures when you get to those - especially anxious to see the new things you did/ate/saw.

 

[disneyfan61]

Oh Erika I am so sorry to hear what you are going through. Prayers for you that the doctors will be able to take care of this. Good luck with the therapy. Bad enough you are going through this but to have to do extra at work??? Must be awful!! We are all here for you.

 

[MEK]

Oh My - I am so sorry about all the issues you have been having. I really hope you can get in to see the neurosurgeon promptly and find out about this mass. I don't blamed you for being concerned. Please keep us posted and let us know how you are feeling and what's been going on. I know the absolute best neurosurgeon and that's a bummer because I know you are too far for him to see.

Have a Happy Mother's Day and feel better soon!

 

[JPFamilyMom]

So sorry you have been going through this. I hope they find some answers quickly and help you not be in pain anymore. Praying for you

 

[Sooze]

So sorry to hear about your pain... I'm sure the waiting is so difficult. I'm sending many prayers and piles of pixie dust your way... Let us know what's going on, if and when you can.

 

[eandesmom]

Oh Erika! Sending you hugs and positive prayers and thoughts that you are able to see the neuro soon, get answers and start therapy.

 

[SoonerGirl]

I'm so sorry that you are having to deal with all of that Erika! I understand completely the pain you are having in your shoulder and down your arm because I had the same thing, only in my leg, from a disk in my lower back. I had to have surgery, but that was many years ago and I haven't had any problems since. I hope the therapy corrects the problem and I'm sending prayers your way that you are able to see a neurosurgeon soon and that the mass is nothing to worry about

 

[Poolrat]

I got the results from the MRI yesterday. There are 2 disks in my neck that have shifted to the left. It is not bad and can be treated with therapy. However, they had found a mass laying near two other disks that has the doctor concerned. He said that it would be indicative of someone who has chronic rheumatoid arthritis which I don't have so it can't be that. He is not sure what it is. It could be nothing. He is sending me to a neurosurgeon so they will not start the therapy until they figure out what this is. Of course, my mind is thinking the worse. It is hard not too.

Thanks for letting me share this with you. I needed to get it off my chest and really didn't want people around home knowing.

Please keep me in your prayers. I am going to try to update this report as I find the time and feel able. Plus, I want to start the new trip as we had such a good time and experienced some new things. And, I am going to try and get caught up on all of your great trips.

oh Erika, So sorry you yo are in so much pain.

I hope the Doctors get you straightened out soon and you are feeling better.

 

[WDWFAN 1972]

Anyone heard how she is doing? I usually don't post but I have enjoyed reading her trip reports and hope she has gotten some answers and pain relief.