NateNLogansDad
Still Wish'n
- Joined
- Jan 30, 2009
Short end: Does Disney do anything to help out families who can't quite afford a trip who have an infant at home who is in bad condition?
Long Side:
There's a guy I know (Fellow truck driver) who has a son around 2 yrs old who has been diagnosed with a rare disease I probably can't pronounce if you told me ten times what it was called. I'm sure there are different symptoms to it but the main problem is the fact that he has literally hundreds of seizures a day and has been in the hospital more than I have in my 32 yrs being on this earth. This Friday, they will be installing something in his chest that sounds like a pacemaker in hopes of controlling the seizures and reduce the number that he has every day. If this doesn't work, they will need to basically seperate his brain down the middle.
Now, like I said, I'm just a truck driver but to me this doesn't sound good at all. I have 2 little guys of my own and my heart breaks every time I see him but I always ask him how things are just so he knows that someone else in this world cares. I don't want to ask him if this is teminal because I don't think he wants to face it if it is, and to be totally honest, I'm not sure I could handle hearing it.
Last night I was at the warehouse where he works and he pulled me aside and asked me about Disney World because he knows my family loves it so much. He wanted to know about prices and how to go about booking it and I told him I would walk him through everything he would ever need to know. My problem was his eyes. I saw a fathers pain and I'm not sure if he thinks this is the only time he will ever get the whole family there together if you know what I mean.
I honestly bought a lottery ticket tonight and made a wish on a star (I'm not kidding) that I could send him and the whole family down as soon as this next surgery was over and his son was fully recovered. Now, being an a realist I know what the odds are of that happening which is why I came here to open up to you guys and gals out there. Is there any agencies out there or does Disney do something to help out families like this one? Like I said, I don't have the heart to ask him if he's concidered "Make A Wish." And he has no idea I'm even posting this on the web so if I don't hear anything back, he won't be dissapointed. I just felt like I needed to do something.
If for nothing else, thanks for letting me rant a little. I feel better just getting it out there.
-Rob
Long Side:
There's a guy I know (Fellow truck driver) who has a son around 2 yrs old who has been diagnosed with a rare disease I probably can't pronounce if you told me ten times what it was called. I'm sure there are different symptoms to it but the main problem is the fact that he has literally hundreds of seizures a day and has been in the hospital more than I have in my 32 yrs being on this earth. This Friday, they will be installing something in his chest that sounds like a pacemaker in hopes of controlling the seizures and reduce the number that he has every day. If this doesn't work, they will need to basically seperate his brain down the middle.
Now, like I said, I'm just a truck driver but to me this doesn't sound good at all. I have 2 little guys of my own and my heart breaks every time I see him but I always ask him how things are just so he knows that someone else in this world cares. I don't want to ask him if this is teminal because I don't think he wants to face it if it is, and to be totally honest, I'm not sure I could handle hearing it.
Last night I was at the warehouse where he works and he pulled me aside and asked me about Disney World because he knows my family loves it so much. He wanted to know about prices and how to go about booking it and I told him I would walk him through everything he would ever need to know. My problem was his eyes. I saw a fathers pain and I'm not sure if he thinks this is the only time he will ever get the whole family there together if you know what I mean.
I honestly bought a lottery ticket tonight and made a wish on a star (I'm not kidding) that I could send him and the whole family down as soon as this next surgery was over and his son was fully recovered. Now, being an a realist I know what the odds are of that happening which is why I came here to open up to you guys and gals out there. Is there any agencies out there or does Disney do something to help out families like this one? Like I said, I don't have the heart to ask him if he's concidered "Make A Wish." And he has no idea I'm even posting this on the web so if I don't hear anything back, he won't be dissapointed. I just felt like I needed to do something.
If for nothing else, thanks for letting me rant a little. I feel better just getting it out there.
-Rob