VWL Lovers & Groupies Thread: Meese-ka, Mice-ka MOOSE-kateers

[jimmytammy]

Hi everyone! Relaxing pool side at our beloved VWL pool. Been checking in via Facebook. Haven't been able to post till now. Spent 4 lovely nights at Kidani and then moved here. We are in 5557....the very last room lakeside on the long hall. Actually very roomy 2 BR! Having a great trip. Still hard not to find Stan! Will post some photos when I get back. Check out Yee Haw Bob's photos. We had a blast with him at POR. He is definitely worth checking out. So much fun and another great Disney treasure!

I was reading about Yeehaa Bob in Celebrations Mag. What time does he play, he sounds interesting?

 

[blossomz]

His show is awesome! He plays the River Roost lounge from 8 pm to 11:45 pm. He doesn't stop! The show is really gun. First set is for younger kids. As he moves thru the evening his music is geared more to adults. Lots of audience participation. He is there Wed to Sat. I always thought it would be hard to get there without a car but it is an easy boatride from DD. Definitely not to be missed! Loads of fun!

 

[jimmytammy]

His show is awesome! He plays the River Roost lounge from 8 pm to 11:45 pm. He doesn't stop! The show is really gun. First set is for younger kids. As he moves thru the evening his music is geared more to adults. Lots of audience participation. He is there Wed to Sat. I always thought it would be hard to get there without a car but it is an easy boatride from DD. Definitely not to be missed! Loads of fun!

Thanks!!

 

[twokats]

Happy 4th of July to all Groupies!!!

Thought I would finally check in and give an update from me and mom and a happy birthday to all that have had one, hope all had good trips that have been lately, good planning to those getting ready in the next few and I am also so glad that Stan is better.

I got my "graduation" certificate Thursday June 30th, for my last radiation treatment!! The area is a little "sunburned", but my radiation oncologist has been very pleased with how I have tolerated the treatments. I started my chemo pill last night, so now I will wait and see if I tolerate that as well.

Sorry I cannot give as good of news for my darling Mom. She has gotten progressively worse. She finished her last chemo pill Wednesday and we made the decision not to do any more since the side effects from it are getting as bad as the other chemo was and the cancer is not responding to it at all. The numbers are going higher and higher and the pain is constant. She has lost the use of her legs, so she is now totally bedridden and we left home health Friday and switched to our local hospice agency. We had our first nurse visit today and they are trying some new meds since even the morphine (which we just started 3 weeks ago) is not totally working anymore. I have slowly been taking care of legal issues that have been needed and am making notes of several of her wishes so that I can carry them out. I don't want to loose her, but it is really hard to see her in such pain, so we pray for God's will and make her as comfortable as possible.

As usual I thank my Groupie friends for your support and all of your listening ears to be able to give an occasional vent. I really do wish that each and every one of you has a great holiday weekend.

 

[MiaSRN62]

Hi everyone! Relaxing pool side at our beloved VWL pool. Been checking in via Facebook. Haven't been able to post till now. Spent 4 lovely nights at Kidani and then moved here. We are in 5557....the very last room lakeside on the long hall. Actually very roomy 2 BR! Having a great trip. Still hard not to find Stan! Will post some photos when I get back. Check out Yee Haw Bob's photos. We had a blast with him at POR. He is definitely worth checking out. So much fun and another great Disney treasure!

Hi blossomz ~Jealous !!!! Glad you're having fun though ! I'll have to check out Yee Haw Bob soon !

DiznyDi.....still on dial-up ? I thought that was outlawed !?!?

 

[MiaSRN62]

Happy 4th of July to all Groupies!!!

Thought I would finally check in and give an update from me and mom and a happy birthday to all that have had one, hope all had good trips that have been lately, good planning to those getting ready in the next few and I am also so glad that Stan is better.

I got my "graduation" certificate Thursday June 30th, for my last radiation treatment!! The area is a little "sunburned", but my radiation oncologist has been very pleased with how I have tolerated the treatments. I started my chemo pill last night, so now I will wait and see if I tolerate that as well.

Sorry I cannot give as good of news for my darling Mom. She has gotten progressively worse. She finished her last chemo pill Wednesday and we made the decision not to do any more since the side effects from it are getting as bad as the other chemo was and the cancer is not responding to it at all. The numbers are going higher and higher and the pain is constant. She has lost the use of her legs, so she is now totally bedridden and we left home health Friday and switched to our local hospice agency. We had our first nurse visit today and they are trying some new meds since even the morphine (which we just started 3 weeks ago) is not totally working anymore. I have slowly been taking care of legal issues that have been needed and am making notes of several of her wishes so that I can carry them out. I don't want to loose her, but it is really hard to see her in such pain, so we pray for God's will and make her as comfortable as possible.

As usual I thank my Groupie friends for your support and all of your listening ears to be able to give an occasional vent. I really do wish that each and every one of you has a great holiday weekend.

twokats....
So happy and relieved you have responded to the radiation. Congrats on the graudation ! I wish you continued improvement !
In regards to your mother....my heart goes out to you. Dh and I were in a very similar situation in 2004 so I know how difficult and a heartbreaking a time this is. Thoughts going out to you and prayers up to heaven......hang in there.

 

[franandaj]

Twokats - Congrats on your recovery, but so sorry to hear about your mother. I lost a dear friend to cancer several years ago and it went much like you are describing with your mother. I am so sorry for what you are going through, and the pain that she is in. I will keep you in my prayers.

 

[Disney loving Iowan]

Happy 4th of July to all Groupies!!!

Thought I would finally check in and give an update from me and mom and a happy birthday to all that have had one, hope all had good trips that have been lately, good planning to those getting ready in the next few and I am also so glad that Stan is better.

I got my "graduation" certificate Thursday June 30th, for my last radiation treatment!! The area is a little "sunburned", but my radiation oncologist has been very pleased with how I have tolerated the treatments. I started my chemo pill last night, so now I will wait and see if I tolerate that as well.

Sorry I cannot give as good of news for my darling Mom. She has gotten progressively worse. She finished her last chemo pill Wednesday and we made the decision not to do any more since the side effects from it are getting as bad as the other chemo was and the cancer is not responding to it at all. The numbers are going higher and higher and the pain is constant. She has lost the use of her legs, so she is now totally bedridden and we left home health Friday and switched to our local hospice agency. We had our first nurse visit today and they are trying some new meds since even the morphine (which we just started 3 weeks ago) is not totally working anymore. I have slowly been taking care of legal issues that have been needed and am making notes of several of her wishes so that I can carry them out. I don't want to loose her, but it is really hard to see her in such pain, so we pray for God's will and make her as comfortable as possible.

As usual I thank my Groupie friends for your support and all of your listening ears to be able to give an occasional vent. I really do wish that each and every one of you has a great holiday weekend.

So glad you are doing well. I wish the same could be said for your mom. So sorry she is going through this. My prayers go out to her.

 

[blossomz]

Kat..glad you are doing well but so sorry about your mom.

Sitting at MCO...flight delay


9:15 pm. We are driving home! Flight was only 30 min delayed. Back to reality!

 

[Corinne]

As usual I thank my Groupie friends for your support and all of your listening ears to be able to give an occasional vent. I really do wish that each and every one of you has a great holiday weekend.

Kathy,

So great to hear you are doing well, and hope you continue to do so. I am so sorry about your mom. It is just so hard. Sending prayers and thoughts your way.

 

[Corinne]

Happy Independence Day Groupies,

Today by "baby" turns 21! We celebrated yesterday, every year we have a party for him and my dad, who turned 80 yesterday. It was a wonderful day.

Hope you all have a nice day!

 

[jimmytammy]

Happy Independence Day!!!

 

[jimmytammy]

Kat
Prayers continuing for you and your family

 

[horselover]

Twokats - hooray on your good news! So glad to hear you've been responding well to the treatment. I'm very sorry to hear the bad news about your DM. The final part of the journey can be very difficult to watch. My heart breaks for you & your mom. I will continue to pray for God's blessings & guidance for all of your during this difficult time.

 

[Muushka]

Happy 4th of July to all Groupies!!!

Thought I would finally check in and give an update from me and mom and a happy birthday to all that have had one, hope all had good trips that have been lately, good planning to those getting ready in the next few and I am also so glad that Stan is better.

I got my "graduation" certificate Thursday June 30th, for my last radiation treatment!! The area is a little "sunburned", but my radiation oncologist has been very pleased with how I have tolerated the treatments. I started my chemo pill last night, so now I will wait and see if I tolerate that as well.

Sorry I cannot give as good of news for my darling Mom. She has gotten progressively worse. She finished her last chemo pill Wednesday and we made the decision not to do any more since the side effects from it are getting as bad as the other chemo was and the cancer is not responding to it at all. The numbers are going higher and higher and the pain is constant. She has lost the use of her legs, so she is now totally bedridden and we left home health Friday and switched to our local hospice agency. We had our first nurse visit today and they are trying some new meds since even the morphine (which we just started 3 weeks ago) is not totally working anymore. I have slowly been taking care of legal issues that have been needed and am making notes of several of her wishes so that I can carry them out. I don't want to loose her, but it is really hard to see her in such pain, so we pray for God's will and make her as comfortable as possible.

As usual I thank my Groupie friends for your support and all of your listening ears to be able to give an occasional vent. I really do wish that each and every one of you has a great holiday weekend.

Bittersweet news, Kathy. Praying for your continued recovery and strength. And praying for your Mom, and God's will.

Peace be with you both.

 

[Muushka]

Declaration of Independence​

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
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He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
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He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.

He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.

He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.

He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:

For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing taxes on us without our consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:

For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:

For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these colonies:

For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:

For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts: John Hancock, Samual Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut: Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York: William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

Source: The Pennsylvania Packet, July 8, 1776

 

[cheer4bison]

Good morning Groupies! It's so good to be back in the company of friends. I sure hope you all had an amazing 4th of July weekend. We enjoyed a fireworks display back home in Pennsylvania. It was a lovely evening. Great way to celebrate!

 

[Muushka]

Birthday! Birthday!!

Happy Birthday Oshawa!

We hope you have a great day tomorrow!

Where shall we dine????​

 

[blossomz]

Hey!!!

Happy Birthday Oshawa!

 

[jimmytammy]

Hey all
Muushka made me aware that Stan was going to have to go back in the hospital(Thanks Barb for clearing a lot up on Stans condition). He went back in today, 2 doors down from his previous room. He hopes to be there no more than a week, probably more likely 2. he is having treatments again, not as aggressive as before, but the Dr. was concerned about some things that she didnt catch before. So here is his address if anyone so wishes to send him best regards. As before, he asks for prayers and appreciates all that have been sent heavenward so far.

Florida Hospital Altamonte
601 East Altamonte Dr.
Altamonte Springs, FL 32701
Room # 3908
Mr. Stan Moore