Make a Wish (and other organizations!) - Wish Trippers...UNITE!! Volume 2!

[maroo]

Ok, I have a simple question for all you former wish-trippers.

Is there Internet access at GKTW?

Believe it or not, I don't think this simple question has a simple answer.

I know they have dial up in each villa. And I know they have wireless in the main common areas. I think they even have a computer in one of the buildings. I ahve also heard that you can get wireless access from some of the villas...I am sure it is just carrying over to the villa from a main area, maybe?

Can someone that has just retured confirm this?

 

[5dwarves]

Ok, I have a simple question for all you former wish-trippers.

Is there Internet access at GKTW?

Yes, there is wireless access in different places around GKTW, and there is a phone for dial up in the villas.

 

[jenb1023]

Hi all!

This is my first post on this thread but I help with the Big Give and follow along on a lot of the wish TR's.

Becca (Mandy's daughter) is going home on April 29th (after a long hospital stay) and her birthday is April 30th.

I pm'd Mandy (llurgy) and spoke to some of the Big Give ladies to see if it would be okay to organize a card shower for Becca.

Mandy said Becca would love it and that she actually reads every card she receives and not just who it is from.

I knew I wanted to send her a card and I thought that maybe some of Becca's other DIS friends would want to send one too which is why I am posting.

So, if you would like to mail Becca either a welcome home card or a birthday card, please pm me and I will send you the address.

I plan to post this on a few threads to reach as many as Becca's DIS friends as possible (so ignore it if you see it more than once).

Thanks!
Jen

 

[josabbimommy]

That makes me wonder about my epi pen.
Mine is not marked with my name. I took it out of the box and just have the canister that it comes in. I can get the box back, I gave the "trainer" to my rescue squad. Anyone know the answer to this one?

We've been selected for the Big Give. I'm very excited! My kids are going to love everything I"m sure.

 

[candicenicole19]

I am so excited to find this thread! I have not read all of the posts yet but I am so excited to be able to read about all the wish trips!

A little about my family and our wish trip:
We are a fmaily of 5 from Northern Maryland. My Oldest daughter Zoe, is our little wish Child. She has Biliary Atresia. I can honestly say that the good news that she was granted a wish could not have came at a better time for her. She has been struggling with bullying and children picking on her at school because of her medical issues (She spent just about a year stright in the hospital and because of it she is behind physically, She has speech issues, and because of her swollen liver, she has a large belly which just adds to the problems )

My other girls are 3 and 6.

Our Make A Wish experience started with her Doctor who to my suprise submitted her name. I got the call and about passed out from crying that day! Her wonderful Wish Granters arranged a meeting and Zoe made her wish! She had been to Disney 2 times prior so she knew exactly what she wanted to wish for! A DISNEY CRUISE! We got the call that the wish was approved and we applied for our passports. After a LONG haul to get them (Zoes bio father is not in her life nor does he have any custody) so just getting the passports were an issue! But they have been in hand for a little over 2 weeks now! We submited the passport numbers and exp. dates to make a wish and we are waiting now for the call with the dates!

Zoe is a specxial little girl in so many ways. She has a serious medical condition but never once has she asked "Why me" or never once has she choosen not to face each and every day with a smile. I am blessed with a beautiful and perfect little angel and I am so thankful that Make A Wish has choosen to allow her to make a very special wish! I know that the memories created on Zoes special trip will last a life time for her and us alike and i can only hope that it will help to pull her through the bad roads and times that may lay ahead!

 

[daddyto8]

That makes me wonder about my epi pen.
Mine is not marked with my name. I took it out of the box and just have the canister that it comes in. I can get the box back, I gave the "trainer" to my rescue squad. Anyone know the answer to this one?

It doesn't need your name or the box. TSA is required to allow medical supplies through. They won't even give an EPI pen a 2nd glance as they are so common. Same with diabeties supplies. Now if you have some fancy electronic equipment or tons of needles they are not used to they will ask more questions, but an EPI pen is likely one of the most common they see.

 

[macntosh]

We are headed back to the ER. Please pray the Doctor's will figure this out...

 

[Andreaswish]

Hi,

I am feeling blue, because of my dd's current school situations. My dd has a heart condition which has worsened in the last few months. She also has ADHD and anxiety issues. I had her tested two summers ago for autism, the doctor who tested her said she had ADHD and anxiety issues no real signs of autism. We had her tested because there were some red flags and with a big brother who has Asperger's syndrome we wanted to know and get it early. She is currently in second grade and is having more social issues and says know one likes her and wants to sit by her at lunch. This just breaks my heart she is such a sweetheart, but comes across as aggressive and loud and talkitive. My gut still thinks there is more going on than just ADHD and anxiety and feel she maybe high functioning autistic.

I just want to help her, but I do have some comfort since her brother had the same issues and has made hugh strides since second grade. A very tough grade for him also.

Sorry for going on, I guess I just needed to vent.. It doesn't help that it has been rainy for two days - quite depressing.

One good thing I did pick up two t-shirts for my dd and two for my ds and one for myself at the Disney store. Thanks to the person who said they were on sale for $3.99 for kids and there was an extra 25% OFF. So good deal for my dd shirts. My ds and mine were 3/$20. good deal.
I got my dd a tinkerbell and aerial t-shirts which she loved. I found a Jack Skellington t-shirt for my ds and he loved it and the best thing was it is gray not black like most of them.

Wow we have only 1 month and two weeks and 3 days until our Magical Trip - I guess I better get back to planning well maybe tomorrow anyway.

Diane

 

[ndloewen]

We are headed back to the ER. Please pray the Doctor's will figure this out...

So sorry to hear that. The boomerang back to hospital has got to be the worst!! Uggg!!

 

[LindaBabe]

She is currently in second grade and is having more social issues and says know one likes her and wants to sit by her at lunch. This just breaks my heart she is such a sweetheart, but comes across as aggressive and loud and talkitive. My gut still thinks there is more going on than just ADHD and anxiety and feel she maybe high functioning autistic.

Diane,

What you just wrote about your daughter could have been written about me 50 years ago - story of my life. Never invited to the birthday parties, etc. I was finally diagnosed with ADD at the age of 50. Adder's are notorious for having poor social skills, not picking up on social cues from others, and so forth. However, social skills and "awareness" can be trained, to some degree, and I've been working hard on mine.

Fortunately for your daughter, she was diagnosed young - AND there are meds (what a blessing was Ritalin for me when I was still working) and methods of learning the social skills that weren't available 50 years ago. My granddaughter attended an after school social skills program. There are also camps and coaching. If you have a local chapter of CHADD or some other support group for parents of ADDers, that might be a place to start.

It *will* all work out, but it WILL take work. Good luck!

Oh, PS. Despite the undiagnosed ADD, many ups and downs through my teenage years and young adulthood, I managed to grow up, have a successful marraige, satisfactory career and a good life. Those same kids who shunned me at age 8, are, at our most recent (42nd) class reunion, warm friends.

 

[keetmommy]

Hi,

I am feeling blue, because of my dd's current school situations.
Diane

My Emma is having social issues too, I wonder about ADD or a non-verbal learning disorder, we will be doing neuro-psych testing with her this summer. I just wanted to say I understand!

 

[macntosh]

We got home at 3:00am Thanks everyone!. They didn't want to keep him. I don't know if it was us being overzeolus or answer to prayer. But everything looks normal on the tests and they let us come home. We will call it an answer to prayer, and Praise God for letting him be well enough to come home.

 

[ndloewen]

We got home at 3:00am Thanks everyone!. They didn't want to keep him. I don't know if it was us being overzeolus or answer to prayer. But everything looks normal on the tests and they let us come home. We will call it an answer to prayer, and Praise God for letting him be well enough to come home.

Sounds like an answered prayer to me. So glad you are home.

 

[macntosh]

Sounds like an answered prayer to me. So glad you are home.

No wet diapers yesterday and two already this morning.

 

[WishMom09]

No wet diapers yesterday and two already this morning.

That is awesome! So glad to hear y'all are home and doing well!

 

[macntosh]

Longest running update ever, but I added the Tinkerbell "poop" story to our trip report.

Bathroom terror, coming up next....

 

[LindaBabe]

That is such a fun report. Can't wait to see what happens next.

 

[BeckySob]

Could someone tell me how to subscribe?

 

[5dwarves]

Could someone tell me how to subscribe?

At the top of the copy on the thread there is a tab "Thread Tools" Click on that and the drop down menu will have a "subscribe to this thread" tab...click again..and you are subscribed. Check your "User CP" for all threads that you are subscribed to (any that you have written a comment on or used the thread tool to subscribe to.)

 

[maroo]

Could someone tell me how to subscribe?

I am only on my iPhone today so I can't answer everything yet, but you click on "thread tools" and click subscribe and then say add subscription when it asks! Is that what you mean? Is that what you are asking? You can subscribe to this thread and to the trip reports you want to follow, etc.