Hello, I am wondering if my husband would qualify (I know the Guest Services make the ultimate decision) but wondering if yall could give me some insight to help me out.
My husband is 100% Disable Veteran. He has PTSD and brain injuries that leave to him having seizure like attacks. (They are actually stress attacks but look like seizures to everyone). Our Last trip to Disney World was in 2013 when he was getting med board out of the Army. We did not think about how his seizures would effect our trip back then. On the first day he had a seizure in the lobby of the hotel (AOA) and while we explain to everyone what happen they were very helpful. Well, the next day he had 2 seizures at Magic Kingdom. He was so embarrassed because it cause so much problems. Once was in line and the medic had to ask everyone behind of in line to get out of line to get to us. So he felt so bad about it. Then we were having lunch or dinner at Crystal Palace and he had another one. It ended up being the same medics so they decide that since we were there for 5 more days they did not keep wanting to get calls. They issue us a wheelchair for free and depend that my husband remain in the chair the whole week. This was very frustrated. My husband is very active and healthy having to be stuck in the wheelchair. We hate all the pictures we took with him sitting in a wheelchair. Also I am not in that best health and I had to push him around all week being very stress for me. In all that week was very frustrated and not has much fun as we were planning. So we never planned on going back.
Now, I want to go back for the 50th Anniversary and he wants to go back to do all the new rides and he is a big Star Wars fan. But, he is worry about this happening again and them wanting him to remain in a wheelchair. He gone though lots of therapy and knows a lot of ways to deal with it but still gets overwhelm in big crowds. What makes him have episodes is being stuck in a crowd and not moving. He is worry about lines that snake back and forth in a tight area. So we are wondering if he would be able to likely get a DAS so that way we won't have to risk it if we will have a repeat of our last trip.
Also, shows are we able to pick seats. We normally pick seats in the back corner that way he can see the place (he don't like people behind him). We plan to not really do table service because we won't be able to ask like we do at home for a table on the outside or corner of the building.
Also any advice you have that might have to help us plan we are not going to April 2022.
My husband is 100% Disable Veteran. He has PTSD and brain injuries that leave to him having seizure like attacks. (They are actually stress attacks but look like seizures to everyone). Our Last trip to Disney World was in 2013 when he was getting med board out of the Army. We did not think about how his seizures would effect our trip back then. On the first day he had a seizure in the lobby of the hotel (AOA) and while we explain to everyone what happen they were very helpful. Well, the next day he had 2 seizures at Magic Kingdom. He was so embarrassed because it cause so much problems. Once was in line and the medic had to ask everyone behind of in line to get out of line to get to us. So he felt so bad about it. Then we were having lunch or dinner at Crystal Palace and he had another one. It ended up being the same medics so they decide that since we were there for 5 more days they did not keep wanting to get calls. They issue us a wheelchair for free and depend that my husband remain in the chair the whole week. This was very frustrated. My husband is very active and healthy having to be stuck in the wheelchair. We hate all the pictures we took with him sitting in a wheelchair. Also I am not in that best health and I had to push him around all week being very stress for me. In all that week was very frustrated and not has much fun as we were planning. So we never planned on going back.
Now, I want to go back for the 50th Anniversary and he wants to go back to do all the new rides and he is a big Star Wars fan. But, he is worry about this happening again and them wanting him to remain in a wheelchair. He gone though lots of therapy and knows a lot of ways to deal with it but still gets overwhelm in big crowds. What makes him have episodes is being stuck in a crowd and not moving. He is worry about lines that snake back and forth in a tight area. So we are wondering if he would be able to likely get a DAS so that way we won't have to risk it if we will have a repeat of our last trip.
Also, shows are we able to pick seats. We normally pick seats in the back corner that way he can see the place (he don't like people behind him). We plan to not really do table service because we won't be able to ask like we do at home for a table on the outside or corner of the building.
Also any advice you have that might have to help us plan we are not going to April 2022.