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

[2012bella13]

Wow! Just amazing! I'm a former wish teen( Had my trip in Aug 2011). It was magical and unforgettable. My wish was granted at just the right moment! A year later( fall 2012) , I fell ill and had a pacemaker implanted. I had unusual complications and ended up having 4 pacemaker surgeries between Nov. and Dec. 2012. I was thinking soo much about Disney while I was in hospital. I felt calm and at peace. One of the OR nurses told my mom that that this wasn't sad because I was in the OR twice in a week, but because every time I came, I was smiling and laughing about how I was looking forward ot my next Disney trip and what rides I would ride. I just didn't understand why they expected me to be sad.

After the final PM surgery, I felt like i needed to do something else. I took up running( with my Doc's permission of course). I'm running 5k's now towards local hospitals. I feel sooo happy when I'm running and free. It's helped me concentrate on the most important things in life and has actually helped stay focused in school! Yes, I still have to deal with medical occurrences and emergencies, but I know everything will be fine.

I'm going to Disneyland next Month and will be celebrating my 18th birthday at the parks and my high school graduation! I am very excited!

Anyway, I really want to run in a Disney half-marathon next year- so thank you for giving this info out!

God Bless!!!! My DD's Trip was in May 2011

 

[Sheri21596]

Hello! I hope everyone is doing well! I am so excited to see more people who are getting their dates!!! I love reading everyones stories and hearing their wishes!

Kara just finished her second round of oral chemo on Saturday and seems to only vomit after waking up on the monday after ... We go back to Hopkins on Wednesday for blood counts. Then May 2nd is her next MRI and IV chemo. Thats gonna be a rough day She really deserves this wish after all the yucky stuff she goes through. We finally got a call from her "wish friends" asking us for 3 different dates/weeks that we would like to go. We have asked for Halloween time since her last Halloween she missed out because of her brain surgery. Part of her wish is to go to BBB and the Castle to eat but im still wondering if I book that myself? I guess all we can do is wait but its so hard! I am slowly getting some outfits for the trip and since I cannot sew Kara's aunt has ordered her a really cute princess pillow case dress.

Jackie - How is Trevor's wish coming along? And how are is your Kara doing? I hope everything is going well!!

Well I will try to post more soon! Keep posting about all the wishes!!

 

[Lilfoot93]

Hi everyone! My son was recently approved for a wish! He has a very rare chromosome disorder (first one to be diagnosed with his issue called 14q13.2 duplication) We are still waiting for our team to come to the house and ask my son for his wish, but we already know he wants to go to Disney World! Now what happens? They know all about his history and that he has two younger sisters (2 year old identical twins) who are also special needs and said that depending on what our team says because his sisters are disabled that we may be able to have "extra" people approved for our wish because we are a family of 6 with four kids 6 and under 3 being special needs and would obviously need extra help on our trip. We are in Tennessee so we know we are going to be flying and I've read up about MAW and Disney trips but I've noticed that a lot of the times it's only a few days at Disney and then other days at Seaworld or Universal.. Is there a way we can just do Disney? And after our team comes to ask my son his wish, what happens next?! He is a huge fan of Mickey Mouse, Toy Story and Cars so we would def want the wish to also incorporate one of the characters, but I'm not sure what happens after we meet with our team. Any answers and advise would be great! Thank you!

Welcome!! I have 4 year old twin girls and their older brother is our wish kiddo. That will be great if you can be approved to have someone come help out with the kiddos while you are there! I think the general "package" for GKTW is 3 days Disney 2 Days Universal and 1 day Sea World. My sons wish is to go to Star Wars Weekend and that is what we are getting too.

Hi everyone! I am bursting with excitement!! Limo picks us up at 5:30 a.m Tuesday morning! My kids are so excited, awesome to see. Thank you everyone for your prayers for health, jack has bounced back and my daughter is feeling better with strep. We all got checked yesterday, quick one was negative but they are culturing it too. Please continue to pray we are healthy on our trip. Thank you! I am having a hard time not over packing! Lol! They told us to bring an empty suitcase too.....just hard as I never know what we might need.
Thank you everyone for your excitement, tips and help planning. I can't believe we leave so soon!, HOORAY!
Victoria

How exciting!!!! Glad to hear the kiddos are feeling better! I hope you have a magical time and I can't wait to hear all about it when you get back!

Holy cow! I had NO idea there was a new thread! I was wonderig why no one was posting on the old one...

We leave for disney in 5 days!!!! SOOO EXCITED!!!

It is coming up SO fast!! I hope you guys have a magical time! Can't wait to hear all about it when you get back!

We got our flight times. We will be landing in Orlando at 4:45 on May 31st. SOOOOOO, excited!!!!! We will be leaving in 46 days, but who's counting? Prescott has been feeling good lately. I feel like I need to lock him in a bubble for the next month and a half because I don't want him to get sick before we go. We have a busy next month, so I know the time will fly by. I'm packing slowly and looking on pinterest for great ideas that we HAVE to have before we leave. My kids and I have searched youtube and watched Disney videos and GKTW videos lots. Prescott is so cute! We talk about riding the airplane. (Now you have to understand that he can't talk, but does have a few words). When we ask who he is going to ride the airplane with, he responds with his one syllable "name" for all of his family (there are 6 of us). It melts my heart. Yep! Getting excited. I'm excited to hear of all of the wish trippers as they prepare to go and then their stories when they return. So, be sure to come back and tell us all your memories! Have fun everyone![/QUOT

It is getting So close!! We leave the day after you and get in on the 2nd. (We are doing a red eye flight) We have been watching a lot of You Tube videos too. The kids just can't get enough! I can't wait for them to experience the magic of Disney for the 1st time!

Hello! I hope everyone is doing well! I am so excited to see more people who are getting their dates!!! I love reading everyones stories and hearing their wishes!

Kara just finished her second round of oral chemo on Saturday and seems to only vomit after waking up on the monday after ... We go back to Hopkins on Wednesday for blood counts. Then May 2nd is her next MRI and IV chemo. Thats gonna be a rough day She really deserves this wish after all the yucky stuff she goes through. We finally got a call from her "wish friends" asking us for 3 different dates/weeks that we would like to go. We have asked for Halloween time since her last Halloween she missed out because of her brain surgery. Part of her wish is to go to BBB and the Castle to eat but im still wondering if I book that myself? I guess all we can do is wait but its so hard! I am slowly getting some outfits for the trip and since I cannot sew Kara's aunt has ordered her a really cute princess pillow case dress.

Jackie - How is Trevor's wish coming along? And how are is your Kara doing? I hope everything is going well!!

Well I will try to post more soon! Keep posting about all the wishes!!

Glad to hear an update! Praying the blood counts are good. I think Halloween would be such a fun time to go!

Trev is doing well. We have his reveal party on May 19th and that is where he will find out when he gets to go to Star Wars Weekend! The kids are getting SO excited!! They know they get to go just not when! My Kara is doing pretty well right now. She just got over and infection in her ear from the surgery. So no getting her ear wet for another couple months. HA! She is 4 so you know how that goes! Last week she decided to dunk her head because she "forgot" what it felt like... We go in May 2nd for her pre op and will find out when the next surgery is. Her sister Allie may have the same condition as Kara and she too will be evaluated on the 2nd. Looks like the 2nd will be busy for the both of us!!

I hope everything is going well for you guys and her tests come back great.

Jackie

 

[Happy Dreams1]

God Bless!!!! My DD's Trip was in May 2011

God bless your family as well

Awesome- same year!! We had an awesome time- we met many families that lived in the municipality next to us and others close by. It was magical, wonderful, very cool, and just the best thing that has ever happened to me!

We leave for California in 1 month and 1 week ( may 22) and time's flying by.

 

[Mom2M07]

12 days!!! We received a welcome brochure from GKTW yesterday, so we know that we are all set to arrive on the 28th. Other than that, I'd be very worried that the trip wasn't actually going to happen. We have had VERY little communication from MAW and we still have no idea what times our flights are. Every time I email our Wish Granters with a question, they forward it to the Wish Coordinator and we get an answer within an hour or so, but there has been almost no spontaneous communication from them. I feel like I'm being pushy when I ask them a question, but we're less than 2 weeks away and I know nothing about the trip, really. I'm trying to wait until tomorrow afternoon to email them, but it's so hard. I know we need to meet with them to get our details and documents and the next 12 days are crazy for us schedule-wise. I'm so grateful for the trip, but I feel like the lack of communication is just crazy.

 

[Mom2M07]

12 days!!! We received a welcome brochure from GKTW yesterday, so we know that we are all set to arrive on the 28th. Other than that, I'd be very worried that the trip wasn't actually going to happen. We have had VERY little communication from MAW and we still have no idea what times our flights are. Every time I email our Wish Granters with a question, they forward it to the Wish Coordinator and we get an answer within an hour or so, but there has been almost no spontaneous communication from them. I feel like I'm being pushy when I ask them a question, but we're less than 2 weeks away and I know nothing about the trip, really. I'm trying to wait until tomorrow afternoon to email them, but it's so hard. I know we need to meet with them to get our details and documents and the next 12 days are crazy for us schedule-wise. I'm so grateful for the trip, but I feel like the lack of communication is just crazy.

OK ... just heard that our Wish Granters will be setting up a time soon to "deliver our wish." Yay!

 

[Kenziema]

12 days!!! We received a welcome brochure from GKTW yesterday, so we know that we are all set to arrive on the 28th. Other than that, I'd be very worried that the trip wasn't actually going to happen. We have had VERY little communication from MAW and we still have no idea what times our flights are. Every time I email our Wish Granters with a question, they forward it to the Wish Coordinator and we get an answer within an hour or so, but there has been almost no spontaneous communication from them. I feel like I'm being pushy when I ask them a question, but we're less than 2 weeks away and I know nothing about the trip, really. I'm trying to wait until tomorrow afternoon to email them, but it's so hard. I know we need to meet with them to get our details and documents and the next 12 days are crazy for us schedule-wise. I'm so grateful for the trip, but I feel like the lack of communication is just crazy.

I know for us once the wish was official we where told if we had any questions to contact the Wish Coordinator. The grantors only came to the house an submitted the paper work. But then again every chapter is different and we are in NYC so this chapter is probably one of the busiest. If you have the coordinators email try contacted her directly.

 

[Kenziema]

So I have been looking through the DISign threads and came across the autograph book DIY thread. Think I am going to attempt to do one for the princess. I'm not very creative but luckily some of the creative folks on the board have taken pity on poor souls like me and have prepared pages for us to download. Wish me luck.

 

[Mom2M07]

We'll be meeting with our Wish Grantors on Saturday for our "reveal party" and I'd love to give them a small token of our appreciation. I know they aren't allowed to accept gifts, but I was thinking about making something for them or giving them something small to say "thanks." I'm already planning on putting together photo albums of our trip for them when we get back. Has anyone given their wish grantors small gifts and were they allowed to accept them?

 

[NEmel]

We'll be meeting with our Wish Grantors on Saturday for our "reveal party" and I'd love to give them a small token of our appreciation. I know they aren't allowed to accept gifts, but I was thinking about making something for them or giving them something small to say "thanks." I'm already planning on putting together photo albums of our trip for them when we get back. Has anyone given their wish grantors small gifts and were they allowed to accept them?

I made Carter's wish granters t shirts that said, "I grant wishes."

 

[kdtass]

Hey Guys!! I started a thread about my daughter Alexandria's possible upcoming wish trip!! Ive got lots of Questions and am looking forward to chatting with everyone!

http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3097407

 

[Kktraylor]

Hi everyone!!! For some reason disboards have been telling me I'm not authorized to sign in for the last few weeks. I definitely have lots of catching up to do!!!!

 

[Kktraylor]

Hi everyone!! For some reason it's been telling me im unauthorized to sign in on the disboards. :-(. I have a LOT of catching up to do!!!!

Kristy

 

[JWCJ]

We'll be meeting with our Wish Grantors on Saturday for our "reveal party" and I'd love to give them a small token of our appreciation. I know they aren't allowed to accept gifts, but I was thinking about making something for them or giving them something small to say "thanks." I'm already planning on putting together photo albums of our trip for them when we get back. Has anyone given their wish grantors small gifts and were they allowed to accept them?

I think it's a lovely idea
Can't wait to hear what's revealed to you!

 

[JWCJ]

Hi everyone!!! For some reason disboards have been telling me I'm not authorized to sign in for the last few weeks. I definitely have lots of catching up to do!!!!

Hello! I've been wondering how you guys were doing.

 

[JWCJ]

Welcome to all the new families!!!!!

We're 9 days away - getting SO excited! We meet with our grantor next Thursday to get all the final stuff. Ja has bloodwork that day, too, so we just need to hear decent numbers and we're good to go!!

We just got 3 pieces of fantastic news . 1) Friends of ours are flying down for a Disney Cruise and we figured out we're on the same flights there and back! 2) We get to go to an NHL game on Monday, thanks to our local Kids With Cancer group 3) Ja will be featured as our MAW chapter's Wish Child for World Wish Day! We'll be ON our trip for the actual day, but they want to interview Ja before we leave. She'll love it!

 

[momma31]

We are currently on our wish trip. My daughter is having a blast. We are at GKTW, they are fantastic with the children. I do have a question. Do I order the pics from the photopass card or do they send me a cd. I have taken my own pics as well but they have got some awesome pics I would love to have.

 

[Mom2M07]

We are currently on our wish trip. My daughter is having a blast. We are at GKTW, they are fantastic with the children. I do have a question. Do I order the pics from the photopass card or do they send me a cd. I have taken my own pics as well but they have got some awesome pics I would love to have.

Once you get back home, you will load the pictures from your card onto your computer, make any edits you want, and order a CD with your pictures on it. The CD will be sent to you once you order it. Glad you are having a great time!

 

[Oneplustwins]

Momma31 we are here too. Having an amazing time! My one word of advice is think about what you want to do.....it is so fun and so much. We got here Tuesday afternoon and 2 of my 3 kids are sleeping this afternoon. Heat and walking equal tired kiddos! Lol! So impressed with GTKW! Having an amazing time!
Blessings,
Victoria

 

[newdrama12]

We are currently on our wish trip. My daughter is having a blast. We are at GKTW, they are fantastic with the children. I do have a question. Do I order the pics from the photopass card or do they send me a cd. I have taken my own pics as well but they have got some awesome pics I would love to have.

When you check out, the Village will tell you how to go about getting your photo pass cd. It is absolutely free to you and your family.