Forums Closed
|
As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
|
|
Welcome! We're happy you've found the PassPorter Community -- the friendliest place to plan your vacation to Walt Disney World, Disney Cruise Line, Disneyland, and the world in general! You are now viewing the PassPorter Message Board Community as a guest, which gives you limited access. As our guest, feel free to browse our messages by selecting the forum you want to visit from the list below.
To post messages and ask questions, join our FREE community today and you'll get access to tools and resources not available to guests, such as our vacation countown timers, "living" avatars, private messaging system, database searches, downloads, and a special PassPorter discount code. Registration is fast, simple, and completely free. Just click the Join Our Community link.
If you think you've already joined, log in below now. If you don't remember your member name or password, please visit our Member Name and Password Recovery page. You are also welcome to contact us.
|
 |
|
02-22-2002, 11:37 AM
|
#1
|
Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
Posts: 9,422
|
Just have to pour it out
I just got off the phone with my Aunt & Uncle in Florida. We just visited with them on our January WDW trip and got to spend a couple of days with them. I had noticed my Aunt's appetite was not too good. They just told me she pancreatic cancer. They just found out last night.
My wife has lost two brothers to this since 1994. One was Tom was 41 & Bill was 47.
My Aunt is like my mother to me as she helped raise me after my Dad's divorce when I was 7. Dear God. I'm sorry, I just can not stop crying.
Update: The doctor told her to call Massachusetts General in Boston and/or John Hopkins in Philidelphia. They are leaning towards Boston as they also have home near Cape Cod.
[ 02-22-2002, 11:58 AM: Message edited by: Disnydad ]
|
|
|
|
02-22-2002, 11:40 AM
|
#2
|
Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 1,608
|
Re: Just have to pour it out
I am so sorry to hear about your Aunt! I feel the same way about my Aunt Alice, she is like a second mother to me and I would be devestated if anything happened to her!
Please know that my thoughts and prayers are with you during this difficult time!!
If you ever need to talk, email me and I'll give you my phone number!
|
|
|
|
|
02-22-2002, 11:50 AM
|
#3
|
Community Rank: Traveler 
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Posts: 482
|
Re: Just have to pour it out
So sorry to hear about your aunt. I lost my Mom to cancer 2 years ago and it is very difficult.
Try to take one day at a time.
Helen
|
|
|
|
|
02-22-2002, 11:54 AM
|
#4
|
Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 1,138
|
Re: Just have to pour it out
I'm so sorry to hear about your Aunt. My thoughts and prayers will be with you and your family.
|
|
|
|
|
02-22-2002, 01:06 PM
|
#5
|
|
Magic Happens!
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: E. Stroudsburg, PA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 29,184
|
Re: Just have to pour it out
Don,
I am so sorry to hear about your aunt. Your family has been through so much, and now this. You will all be in my prayers and thoughts.
Sue
|
|
|
|
|
02-22-2002, 01:11 PM
|
#6
|
Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Philadelphia, PA 19140
Posts: 1,293
|
Re: Just have to pour it out
I am sorry to hear about your aunts illness. I found out after my father was stricken with it that Pancreatic cancer is tough to treat. Although my father passed, please remember that there are people walking around today with illnesses that the doctors said should have killed them. So all sickness is not to death.
My prayers will be with you and your family.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
*
|
Sponsored links
Check out the many e-books by PassPorter. The e-books are free to download if you have a PassPorter's Club pass.
|
|
02-22-2002, 02:36 PM
|
#7
|
Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Orlando area via Chicago
Posts: 5,424
|
Re: Just have to pour it out
Don, So sorry to hear about your Aunt. My thoughts, prayers and pixie dust go out to you and your family.
|
|
|
|
|
02-22-2002, 02:43 PM
|
#8
|
Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
Posts: 9,422
|
Re: Just have to pour it out
Thanks so much for your words. My Aunt has chosen Mass General. They are sending all the info to Boston. After reviewing the reports, etc, they will call them back as to whether surgery is an option. If it is, they said she could fly in and have the surgery the next day.
|
|
|
|
|
02-22-2002, 04:26 PM
|
#9
|
Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Florida Big Bend
Posts: 17,133
|
Re: Just have to pour it out
Disneydad is Mass General a teaching hospital? My father died of a rare strain of colon cancer (Gardners Syndrome) when I was a teenager. Found out at 20 or 21 that I had it as well. Greenwich Hospital wanted to make me an ostimate...A family friend gave us several referrals like Yale New Haven, ?, and Memorial Sloane-Kettering (NYC). I opted for MSK as the surgeon gave me three options, the last on the list being an ileostomy. Twenty years later I am still recovered from the surgery and yet to be an ostimate. I feel very fortunate to have so many loving people in my life at the time. The mean age for that disease is 42. (My dad passed two months shy of 42.) Being the young dump kid that I was I thought partying my brains out until 42 was the better of the options; at this point in my life I'm grateful people (LITERALLY) dragged me around for interview appointments with Surgeons! Teaching hospitals are so much more advanced in technology.
|
|
|
|
|
02-22-2002, 05:38 PM
|
#10
|
Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Corsicana, Texas, USA
Posts: 2,027
|
Re: Just have to pour it out
I am soooo sorry!! I'm sharing your tears as I write this! I'll pray for you and your family, and a special prayer for your Aunt. God Bless all of you.
|
|
|
|
|
02-22-2002, 06:49 PM
|
#11
|
Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
|
Re: Just have to pour it out
I am so sorry, but don't lose faith - God works miracles through many avenues. Your family is in my thoughts and prayers. Please keep us informed.
Peace.
|
|
|
|
|
02-22-2002, 07:38 PM
|
#12
|
Community Rank: Trailblazer
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Posts: 5,094
|
Re: Just have to pour it out
I'm so sorry about your aunt. Sending pixie dust & prayers to you and your family in this difficult time.
Peace, love & šoš
|
|
|
|
|
02-22-2002, 08:15 PM
|
#13
|
Community Rank: Sightseer 
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 52
|
Re: Just have to pour it out
I am so sorry for your Aunt's illness. I will keep you all in my prayers.
|
|
|
|
|
02-22-2002, 08:22 PM
|
#14
|
|
Mrs. Jack Sparrow
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Aboard the Black Pearl
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 21,228
|
Re: Just have to pour it out
Sorry to hear about your Aunt. [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img] Sending pixie dust and prayers.
|
|
|
|
|
02-22-2002, 09:51 PM
|
#15
|
Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: SE Texas!
Posts: 4,882
|
Re: Just have to pour it out
Don,
I am sooo very sorry to hear the news about your Aunt. Please know that my thoughts and prayers are with you all as you face this new challenge.
Also know we are here for you.
Michelle
|
|
|
|
| Thread Tools |
|
|
| Display Modes |
 Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
About This Page: 
Like
Thank
Pixie Dust
