Opinions please

[jstbcuz]

We are leaving for Disney 2 weeks from today. I have been having trouble with pain in my feet & walking. Went to the Ortho Dr and he said he thought it was Plantar Fasciitis as well as bone spurs on both feet. My right is way worse than my left. Right now I am getting ASTYM therapy, as well as doing some other things. I have a boot that I wear when I am out doing a lot of walking. So we have decided I might want to rent a wheelchair while there.

My question is........should I park it with the strollers on the different rides or just go thru the line and sit where the other wheel chairs are at? I am able to stand/shuffle/walk as long as it isnt for long periods, but I dont want to take someone that really needs that spot either. What do you think?

 

[wilkeliza]

We are leaving for Disney 2 weeks from today. I have been having trouble with pain in my feet & walking. Went to the Ortho Dr and he said he thought it was Plantar Fasciitis as well as bone spurs on both feet. My right is way worse than my left. Right now I am getting ASTYM therapy, as well as doing some other things. I have a boot that I wear when I am out doing a lot of walking. So we have decided I might want to rent a wheelchair while there.

My question is........should I park it with the strollers on the different rides or just go thru the line and sit where the other wheel chairs are at? I am able to stand/shuffle/walk as long as it isnt for long periods, but I dont want to take someone that really needs that spot either. What do you think?

First advice rent from off property so you will have it for buses and hotel use. There are no more courtesy wheelchairs at the hotels.

On rides you can walk through the queue with your wheel chair. Since wait times may be long take the chair with you. For some rides they will ask if you can walk a short period but the definition of short seems to change. It is any where from a foot to several feet. Haunted Mansion seems to be the biggest one where it is longer then people think. Since it seems this would fall under the mobility disability you most likely won't qualify for a DAS (unless there are other issues not mentioned) so be prepared to wait in standby. In those cases the wheelchair will provide you somewhere to sit and relax if your feet are not cooperating. For shows you can do either. I know come people with PF have a hard time with stairs so I would say just use the seating offered for wheelchairs so you can avoid stairs if that is apart of your treatment plan.

Just for clarification are you going to WDW or Disneyland?

 

[Cinderella's Slipper 2015]

I've done WDW in an AirCast walking boot thanks to having severe stress fractures in my leg. I also had an ECV. Sometimes I would park it and hobble around and other times I would take it through the line with me. As far as I was concerned, I had a cast on my leg which made me unable to stand in line, hence the ECV, so I never felt guilty about using the accommodations set out for people in ECVs/Wheelchairs.

Also, for some attractions, like Space Mountain, Splash Mountain and Toy Story Mania, there are stairs in the queues, not something I wanted to try to navigate with an AirCast on so I used the ECV for those. But there were times, like if we had a fastpass or the lines were relatively short that I would park the ECV in a central area and hop around on the cast from attraction to attraction, i.e. PeopleMover to Buzz to Carousel of Progress etc.

 

[wilkeliza]

Also, for some attractions, like Space Mountain, Splash Mountain and Toy Story Mania, there are stairs in the queues, not something I wanted to try to navigate with an AirCast on so I used the ECV for those. But there were times, like if we had a fastpass or the lines were relatively short that I would park the ECV in a central area and hop around on the cast from attraction to attraction, i.e. PeopleMover to Buzz to Carousel of Progress etc.

Hoping you can shed some light on this so I can help others as I have always wondered this. If someone has an issue with stairs at TSMM is there any way to go up the ramp and ride a regular vehicle not the disability vehicle? I know the disability vehicle has the slap button and since my grandma will be in an ECV when we finally are able to take her we want to do TSMM but she would be more than able to transfer even if it meant having to walk around to the regular cars/exit are to board just just would have a hard time going up and then down the steps.

 

[Cinderella's Slipper 2015]

I rode TSMM when I had my AirCast on and my ECV. If you can transfer out of the wheelchair/ECV they will redirect a regular car into the wheelchair loading area. What they will do is hold you in the wheelchair loading area until they have a number of people who can transfer, or perhaps a larger family, then redirect one of the regular cars into the wheelchair loading zone, load everyone in and send it on it's way.

 

[tobikaye]

The disabled vehicle at TSMM only has the push button on one seat for someone in a wheelchair. All of the others are the normal pull string. If you are able to transfer they may pull an additional non-disabled car around or place you in the non-disabled section of the vehicle. Just let them know you want to transfer and would like the normal pull string.

 

[jstbcuz]

Just for clarification are you going to WDW or Disneyland?

We are going to Disney World