Well-controlled Meniere's Disease diagnosee checking in. I take daily HCTZ and fexofenadine as prescribed and haven't had a vertigo attack in almost 5 years now. I had some reservations and didn't ride any "thrill" rides when I was first diagnosed, but have slowly worked my way back up to be able to ride some of my favs like Rockin Rollercoaster, Everest, Tower of Terror, etc. I can do Star Tours, Soarin, Dinosaur, and Spiderman, but I haven't attempted Mission Space orange team for fear of ruining everyone's day. Obviously I'm not insane enough to even attempt Tea Party or that friggin Primeval Whirl, but when the spawn were younger I could do Dumbo if I had a while to recover afterwards. So last week I ended up wrapping up a project at work earlier than expected, so the wife and I packed up the kids for an overnighter last minute Friday night and got to the Studios right about sundown. It was Extra Magic Hours and we booked a room on the drive over at Art of Animation (roughed it because literally NOTHING else was available on 3 hours notice lol) so we could take advantage.
Parked and headed straight for Smuggler's Run, checked in for a
DAS pass time and got the kiddos some food. Waited until our assigned time and checked in, got our 'assignments'. My youngest gets motion sickness in the car and occasionally on planes and boats and he and I both got gunner. The wife and my oldest got pilot, but they never have issues. Didn't know the people in the back row but they were super nice. Right off the bat I could tell it wasn't going to be good for me and my head got 'fuzzy' and I got the sweats. Crap...it's been a long time but I know that feeling all too well. I had no option but to close my eyes, brace myself with 1 hand on the seat in front of me and the other on the console next to me, and ride it out. Luckily the ride is over really quickly and didn't push me past the point of no return. Youngest had no problem with it whatsoever though and even wanted to go again, which I VERY quickly put the kabosh on. Haha. I did have to support myself against the wall walking out the exit hallway slowly but wasn't holding anybody up. Once I got outside, the proverbial central Florida evening rain shower had showed up, which was actually REALLY refreshing and kind of helped cool things down and dispersed the masses, who were apparently made of sugar and were about to melt.
Hopefully they can adapt a car or two to an orange team/green team type setup like Mission Space, otherwise Smugglers Run is a one-and-done for me. Can't take the risk of going a 2nd time unfortunately.
