I am rather bummed today, I have been fighting a painful foot for about a week and nothing seems to be helping, I have had to skip active walking for about 2 weeks and my active minutes have come from riding my stationary bike. But now even that is becoming more than I can handle right now. The bad thing is I leave next Tuesday to travel to Orlando with so many plans there that require walking long distances and last night I finally realized that I will probably have to rent a
scooter to use in order to salvage my trip..........something I never thought I would have to do! I can walk but not for long distances, not with any speed (I am slow enough as it is) and the pain factor is more than I can deal with............and I live in pain each and every day pretty much 24/7! This has defeated me in more ways than I can explain, the tears that have been shed since last night would fill up the old moat in front of the MK castle!
Luckily, I have traveled with family/friends that have had to use a scooter or w/c and I am well versed in the ins and outs of navigating the various parks we will be enjoying. We are staying offsite and have my own vehicle so getting the scooter to the parks will be pretty simple - I can just leave it the vehicle when we are at the condo..........at least I can hope to walk that much with my hiking stick and taking it slow
Will this setback slow me down? WELL, realistically if will just a little bit but I am confident that I can do it! I am the crazy person that took a Pooh sized woman to Dolllywood (Pigeon Forge) in the rain, in a w/c with a non-weight bearing cast on her leg and the park is HILLY! And our handicapped room met the MINIMUM standards for ADA accessibility - meaning it was a JOKE of a room and they wouldn't move us to another room, and it was the time of the year that the town was PACKED. BUT we adapted , persevered and still had a great time!
My best friend is traveling with me - we have been thru so much together as we travel, its a blast to look back at some of our experiences and it only makes us laugh now! So I feel sure that next time this year as we plan our fall trip together we will laugh about all of this! Usually its ME helping her thru injuries/surgeries and being "mobility challanged" so I guess this trip the tables are turned..............luckily she is the most wonderful, understanding friend a person could ever have and she is up to the adventure
Heck, I spent most of a year planning the trip, making reservations, getting her flight arranged, planning ADR's...........and changing them, adding more of them, subtracting them etc.................so now I can depend on her for a little help and patience for sure, I am a very independent person and hate to ask for help!
There is only one major thing that she won't do.............the money aspect of our trips LOL, this is a woman that won't even balance her checkbook, she says she justs knows there is money in there! When we plan a trip she tells me where she would like to go and then asks me how much money I want from her. We have a savings account together that we put money in every 2 weeks so our trips are always paid for in advance!
I have planned some surprises for her on the trip just because she deserves it but now they will be very special because this whole situation will impact both of us so much! She is spoiled and she freely admits it
Now that everyone has read the condensed version of a huge novel...............have a great day and keep up the awesome jobs everyone! I am going to meet my goal if it kills me - I am less than 100 minutes away from it and although it hurts to ride...........I AM GOING TO FINISH what I started
.............Sincerely, Scooter SCDAK