Have you tried taping your toes together? When I broke a toe, I taped it to the closest toes next to it. Then, I carefully stuffed it in a shoe with the ties all loosen up. I was able to walk all day in New Orleans like that. I know that’s not the same amount of walking as in Disney, but it might help.
It's no fun at all. Especially with the buses. And especially the dirty looks you get because you're holding everyone up while you get on.
Yep.Her doctor has told her to use a scooter; she didn't say she didn't want to bother with one, she asked about how it would work for lines, etc.
You use a scooter, yet this is the second thread where you seem to be discouraging someone else from using one.
Some people say that using a ECV exhausts them. I personally do not find that to be true at all. I find using an ECV to be so liberating.
I can successfully navigate through the most crowded areas on my ECV as I go very slow and just go with the flow. I am not trying not to go in rabbit mode.
enjoy your trip and if you have a chance before you leave practice at a store near your home by using one thereThank you everyone. I appreciate your input. I don't think taping will help as the fracture was down low to the base and the worst pain comes when I flex my foot (or even put pressure on my toes at all). I need to keep my toe parts elevated. What a sucky bit of bad luck...but...I'd rather have bad luck and be in Disney world, than good luck and be sitting at home!
I'll start calling around to check prices today!
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It's no fun at all. Especially with the buses. And especially the dirty looks you get because you're holding everyone up while you get on...
Thank you everyone. I appreciate your input. I don't think taping will help as the fracture was down low to the base and the worst pain comes when I flex my foot (or even put pressure on my toes at all). I need to keep my toe parts elevated. What a sucky bit of bad luck...but...I'd rather have bad luck and be in Disney world, than good luck and be sitting at home!
I'll start calling around to check prices today!
No, not everyone needs a scooter. Gosh, at least I hope not.I guess it's "Scooter for me but not for thee".
It's a wonder that Disney doesn't sell tickets just to watch!
Knee walkers are great for day to day, but no way would I recommend one for Disney. Too much uneven pavement, very tiring, and the “walking” leg and hip would very likely become achy after one day.
I would rent a scooter from offsite and enjoy!
You know, so often they aren't really "dirty looks" - but simple curiosity.
This is spot on. I often walk the parks with a friend who's in a power chair. I'm personally very sensitive to the whole "people are talking about me" thing. Like if I walk into a room and someone starts laughing... ugh I just assume they're laughing at me.
But on a few occasions on recent trips I was catching up to my friend while she was already in line for the bus and I got to hear some of the comments made by people as I walked up through the line. When you're up at the front, those murmurs sound awful. You catch one word in 10 and those words tend to be wheelchair, handicap, ramp, and things like that; but your mind fills in the blanks with really awful stuff. In reality, 9 times out of 10, its just a mundane observation made by a parent to their kid to explain why the bus is here but we're not boarding yet. A couple times I caught pseudo-sympathetic statements like, "Wouldn't want to qualify for that perk."
Sad but true, some of this largesse is because my friends need for her chair is quite obvious. She sports a look we refer to as Chemo-chic. I would like to believe that anyone using a mobility aid would qualify for this sort of charitable consideration by their fellow man but ...
as someone who has had to use ECV hearing a child say what your daughter said would have made me happy because she cared that I was able to use the bus. there is a big difference in a child noticing and being happy for someone than an adult who is complaining because ECV is loaded before them. my own granddaughter who was 4.5 when we went on our last trip was worried about how MomMom was going to get on buses/boats with her cane that I have been able to graduate to. first few times she was making sure the driver knew let me on then ran to her favorite seat so yes I have been there done that with kids. hope this helps as I am always more excited to hear a child happy that I can be there than an adult who complains because of how we have to be helpedI agree. Our last trip was DD7's first. She had no prior experience with buses that load ECVs so she did have some questions about why they were in a different line and how the process works and was incredibly curious watching it all happen. She also made comments like, "Wow, she's driving that chair up the ramp like a pro," or "it's really cool that Disney makes buses that handicap people like that man can ride." With that last one, I did later have a chat with her that it's not polite to point out others' disabilities, but she really didn't mean anything negative by it and I certainly hope that if someone overheard they took no offense to it.
as someone who has had to use ECV hearing a child say what your daughter said would have made me happy because she cared that I was able to use the bus. there is a big difference in a child noticing and being happy for someone than an adult who is complaining because ECV is loaded before them. my own granddaughter who was 4.5 when we went on our last trip was worried about how MomMom was going to get on buses/boats with her cane that I have been able to graduate to. first few times she was making sure the driver knew let me on then ran to her favorite seat so yes I have been there done that with kids. hope this helps as I am always more excited to hear a child happy that I can be there than an adult who complains because of how we have to be helped
congrats on raising a caring child that shows you also care as the apple usually doesn't fall far from the tree. kids ask about what they do not know or understand and they take their lead from your answer to themThanks for saying that and congrats on being able to graduate to your cane!