Wish Trippers...Unite!! Volume One

[LindaBabe]

Macntosh - that's just the best news! (Fairy grandma is boo-hooing again)

 

[dmbfan]

Small world!!!!! When is your trip planned for?? (OK, ok, I'll go find your link!) We are still waiting for our dates to be confirmed (hoping for end of Feb/beg of March).

We have not got that far yet...this has been a slow process...We are hoping for the end of March, but I don't know yet.

 

[chcmama]

Macntosh-that is great news, what a great Christmas miracle for your family

 

[mom2lilnick]

macntonish.. that is wonderful news!!!

I updated our PTR with some pics, in case anyone wants to look.

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=29210970#post29210970

 

[ndloewen]

Finally got up the courage to call my wish coordinator today...anyone else hate calling as much as I do?? I always feel like I'm pestering them and should wait for them to call. So glad I did though...she had done nothing with our dates as apparently I was supposed to fax her our passports, which I had not done. They can't do anything without proof that we can leave the country!! And today is her last day in the office until Jan 5th!!

So the passports are faxed and hopefully that will get the ball rolling!! She also answered some of my burning questions, which I posted in my pretrip report. Sounds like we won't get date confirmation until Jan though

We are probably headed into hospital. Noah has a virus that is throwing him for a loop...

 

[mindymouse1]

I hope Noah can stay out of the hospital! I know it can be especially difficult at the holidays.

I also wanted to let you all know that I started our PTR with a few pics. I should add more posts within a day or so!!!

 

[HeatherSue]

Can we have a link, Mindy? I can't wait to read it!

 

[mom2lilnick]

LOL! Okay here I am again to tell you I updated our PTR again with more pics this time from the BIG GIVE!!!! YIPPEE!!!!

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=29226222#post29226222

 

[maroo]

I hope Noah can stay out of the hospital! I know it can be especially difficult at the holidays.

I also wanted to let you all know that I started our PTR with a few pics. I should add more posts within a day or so!!!

Hello Mindy! I am excited about your trip!

Can we have a link, Mindy? I can't wait to read it!

Heather...here ya go! Found it...

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2035322

LINK to Clint's Wish Trip

 

[tinytreasures]

talked with MAW today
they think they can get grandma AND grandpa to come along with as the kids PAC's we are in shock
she kept saying there is no reason grandpa can't come too
she said she is going to call our doctor and tell him to sign the papers for both to come *wiping tears here*

she is trying for Feb 19 as a leaving date

 

[mom2lilnick]

That is wonderful news Kathleen!

 

[mindymouse1]

Thank you Maroo!!! I tried to figure out how to do that link thing for about an hour!!! Still never found it. Everyone here is so helpful!!

I DID get the picture thing figures out so ....... GO ME!!!!!!

 

[maroo]

talked with MAW today
they think they can get grandma AND grandpa to come along with as the kids PAC's we are in shock
she kept saying there is no reason grandpa can't come too
she said she is going to call our doctor and tell him to sign the papers for both to come *wiping tears here*

she is trying for Feb 19 as a leaving date

aww....that is WONDERFUL!!!!

I hope he signs them...I know he will!!

Fabulous!

Thank you Maroo!!! I tried to figure out how to do that link thing for about an hour!!! Still never found it. Everyone here is so helpful!!

I DID get the picture thing figures out so ....... GO ME!!!!!!

I got lots of help from the "technical" board at the very bottom of the disboards...like how to do the signature and all of that jazz...

Your pictures are perfect!

If you want to post a link you can copy the "address" and then click the globe with the paperclip at the top of your message box and paste your link in the blank. Then you can type whatever you want in the highlighted part...

I always use that "preview" button a lot!!

I hope that made sense...maybe PM me? I will help ya if I can.

 

[maroo]

Finally got up the courage to call my wish coordinator today...anyone else hate calling as much as I do?? I always feel like I'm pestering them and should wait for them to call. So glad I did though...she had done nothing with our dates as apparently I was supposed to fax her our passports, which I had not done. They can't do anything without proof that we can leave the country!! And today is her last day in the office until Jan 5th!!

So the passports are faxed and hopefully that will get the ball rolling!! She also answered some of my burning questions, which I posted in my pretrip report. Sounds like we won't get date confirmation until Jan though

We are probably headed into hospital. Noah has a virus that is throwing him for a loop...

*** Update to the above post...

For those of you guys interested in keeping up with and particularly PRAYING for this sweet family, please see the link below...

Link To Noah's Blog

Noah is in the hospital and after reading the blog...his condition appears critical. You can read the details above...

Please pray for this family. Especially during this Christmas holiday. No fun being in the PICU, but definitely during Christmas.

 

[oklamomof4boys]

*** Update to the above post...

For those of you guys interested in keeping up with and particularly PRAYING for this sweet family, please see the link below...

Link To Noah's Blog

Noah is in the hospital and after reading the blog...his condition appears critical. You can read the details above...

Please pray for this family. Especially during this Christmas holiday. No fun being in the PICU, but definitely during Christmas.

Thank you so much for the link and the heads up on Noah's condition. We will start praying for this precious family immediately.

Carol

 

[maroo]

I meant to post it before we left for Disney but couldn't get the picture to upload. I recieved the photo below in an e-mail. I’m not the type to forward stuff on en masse and I always check stuff out that is sent to me on snopes.com... But in this case I actually know the woman who wrote it. Her name Katy and she is Sebastian's Child-Life Specialist. She used to work over at Hemby Children’s Hospital where Sebastian has had his surgeries but now she works out of the Blume Pediatric Oncology Clinic where we take Sebastian.

At first I scrolled down through the e-mail to the photo. My breath caught in my throat. Was I looking at what I thought I was looking at? I recognized the floor and the doors as those of the PICU at Hemby Children’s Hospital....These types of inspirational e-mails always make me tear up but I was shaking in my chair. Having stood right in that spot waiting for the PICU doors to open it the photo below is very faith affirming.

I think about the many times I’ve asked our family and friends to pray for Sebastian (and more recently Savannah) believing that by storming the heavens with prayer God would deliver one of his many miracles. I don’t consider myself to be great at “praying”. I shy away from even leading grace at meals. So my prayer has always been simple…”Lord please heal Sebastian and send your angels to watch over him.” This is what I have repeated in my heart and from my lips.

Here in this photo, I can see, captured, what we have felt…that God has indeed sent his angels. For Sebastian, for the little girl in the story, for the kids on these Wish Tripper threads and for countless others who have needed Him.

With Love,
Amber

Here is Katy's e-mail...picture below of the PICU Angel guarding the door:

So many of you have heard me tell the story, but I wanted to pass it along anyway to those who didn't hear it and for those who wanted it in email.

A couple of Wednesdays ago, I got an evening phone call from the pediatric ICU at Presbyterian Hospital, where I work as a child life specialist. Usually when they call at night, it means something bad has happened. This, however, was different. My coworker told me that the most amazing thing had just happened and she just had to call to tell me.

We had a patient who has really grown up in and out of the hospital. All the staff knows her and her family. She had been in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) for about a month, and had been intubated - on life support. She was not doing well. The doctors had approached mom about taking her off life support the Saturday before. Mom was okay with it, and said that she'd been through so much and if was her time to go she wanted to honor that. So they had taken her off.

It was Wednesday and she was still alive. Amazing. The doctors approached mom about taking off her oxygen mask. Mom was supportive, and began praying over her daughter. The mother of another young patient who was in the bed next to her began praying with her.

The nurse practitioner went to the nurses station to chart that she had taken off the oxygen mask. While doing so, she looked up at the security monitor that videotapes the double doors leading into the PICU. It records anyone who may be waiting outside the doors to get in since it is a secure unit. She saw a man standing there, and it looked a little funny to her, so she decided to walk down the hall to open the double doors personally. When she opened them, no one was standing there.

She walked back down to the nurses station to finish charting, assuming he had walked away, but saw him still standing there on the monitor. So she opened the doors with a button near the nurses station and leaned over to see him walk in, but no one was standing there.

She pulled over another nurse and both stood staring at this man on the monitor and opening the doors to find no one there. The nurse practitioner leaned in closely to look at the man on the monitor and said, 'Oh my gosh. That's an angel. You can see his wings!'

They said that the sun starting shining so brightly and the whole PICU was strangely filled with light. They said he was a tall man and you could see wings behind him.

They pulled over all the staff of the PICU and the two praying mothers and everyone was staring at this man on the monitor and opening the doors to find no one there. Crying, everyone pulled out their camera phones to take pictures, but no one could get it to show up on their camera. The mother of the girl pulled out her camera phone and finally got a picture of the angel who was guarding the doors to the PICU. He turned out as a man of light. I have attached the picture from her phone.

The girl was later discharged from the hospital to go home.
A Miracle.

This story makes me so grateful for the way that God reveals himself to us, and the how Great He is really is. We have much to be thankful for this holiday.

I saw this on the "Today Show" website this morning...I hope this link works...

Basically there are so many people verifying this story...that it made the Today Show...

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Angel Story on the Today Show

 

[oklamomof4boys]

I saw this on the "Today Show" website this morning...I hope this link works...

Basically there are so many people verifying this story...that it made the Today Show...

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Angel Story on the Today Show

I saw it too! Very cool- we can say " we saw it first!"

Carol

 

[maroo]

I saw it too! Very cool- we can say " we saw it first!"

Carol

Yeah....everyone at work is freaking out. Someone came in talking about it and I showed them the Disboards and the date Amber posted it...they were freaking out.

Merry Christmas, right!

God is good...

 

[stickkop]

We are tentatively scheduled to be at the Village between Sunday January 11 2009 and Friday January 16, 2009. While I am sure I will have lots of questions as we get closer I had one question regarding the "front of the line pass" that MAW trippers are given at Disney.

Does this pass grant you front of the line access for only those rides that the trip grantee rides or does it also work on rides that other members of the party ride. My son Benny (who has down syndrome), the grantee, is seven and may not be able to go on all of the rides that his 9 year old brother wants to go on.

Thanks

Steven

 

[Ppufi]

We are tentatively scheduled to be at the Village between Sunday January 11 2009 and Friday January 16, 2009. While I am sure I will have lots of questions as we get closer I had one question regarding the "front of the line pass" that MAW trippers are given at Disney.

Does this pass grant you front of the line access for only those rides that the trip grantee rides or does it also work on rides that other members of the party ride. My son Benny (who has down syndrome), the grantee, is seven and may not be able to go on all of the rides that his 9 year old brother wants to go on.

Thanks

Steven

Hi!

To answer your question, whenever I didn't want to go on a ride, (I was the MAW kid) and my little sister did, we just put the button on her landyard.