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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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!
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04-23-2002, 04:07 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
Posts: 9,422
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Gettin the ol Colonoscopy tomorrow
I just started my pre Colonoscopy procedure. Just took a pill and start drinking the Golytely in one hour.
This is a result of two things. First, my ambulance ride to the ER back just before Christmas for stomach cramps. (Sure is different riding as the patient. Usually I drove the darn thing.) Second, turning 50 a short while ago.
They looked around my stomach a couple of years ago and I'm not anticipating finding anything.
As Peter Pan says in the movie: Here we goooooo! [img]graemlins/wavin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]
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04-23-2002, 04:27 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Florida Big Bend
Posts: 17,133
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Re: Gettin the ol Colonoscopy tomorrow
Oooooooh welcome to the club! I have them done on a quarterly basis.........since the tender age of 21! [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]
Good luck and good for you for taking care of yourself........My sister-in-law has to practically knock my brother out with drugs to get him to go in! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
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04-23-2002, 04:49 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
Posts: 9,422
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Re: Gettin the ol Colonoscopy tomorrow
This is my first. My wife gets them yearly due to family problems.
Oh well.
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04-23-2002, 04:54 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Rantoul, IL and Orlando, Fl
Posts: 940
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Re: Gettin the ol Colonoscopy tomorrow
I can sympathize- my gramdmother went through the same thing and had her spleen removed as a result- poor thing. anyway I couldn't even walk in her house while she were taking the laxs- aggh. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] but rest assured, the smell shall pass heh I'm just kidding - best of luck with the results!
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04-23-2002, 05:09 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Foothills of the Adirondacks
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 4,733
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Re: Gettin the ol Colonoscopy tomorrow
Best of luck, Don! [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img] I need to do this again, but I keep putting my doctor off. He said he is definately making the referral at my May appointment!
When I had it done, you had to be on a liquid diet for 3 days and drink a ton of thick, brown, very yucky stuff! [img]graemlins/dizzy.gif[/img]
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04-23-2002, 05:53 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
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Re: Gettin the ol Colonoscopy tomorrow
Eew - TMI! Just kidding, I hope it goes well for you, Don. What do they say? "Just relax". Good luck!
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04-23-2002, 05:56 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: IN, USA
Posts: 762
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Re: Gettin the ol Colonoscopy tomorrow
Sorry you have to have this done [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img] . Best wishes for good test results!
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04-23-2002, 06:43 PM
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Recovering VMK Addict!
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Thornton, CO
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 13,087
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Re: Gettin the ol Colonoscopy tomorrow
Eek!
I am so sick and tired of doctors.
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04-23-2002, 07:16 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Durham,NC
Posts: 2,615
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Re: Gettin the ol Colonoscopy tomorrow
Don, relax and rest assured a tech like me (a good tech that is) will let ya know everything looks A-ok in a few days. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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04-23-2002, 09:16 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Cape May Court House NJ USA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 11,259
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Re: Gettin the ol Colonoscopy tomorrow
Don, I will be thinking of you tomorrow [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img] & all I have to say is...........
Bottoms up!
Couldn't resist that [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] Willl keep you too in thought and prayers in hopes all will be A OK!
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04-23-2002, 09:22 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Robbinsdale, MN
Posts: 7,526
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Re: Gettin the ol Colonoscopy tomorrow
Don --
A good friend had one done a couple years ago, and later told us the doctor put her at ease by saying, at exactly the most awkward moment (and what moment wouldn't be awkward?) ...
"I can see all the way to Cleveland!"
[img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
[ 04-23-2002, 09:22 PM: Message edited by: whoSEZ ]
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04-23-2002, 09:27 PM
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Magic Happens!
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: E. Stroudsburg, PA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 29,184
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Re: Gettin the ol Colonoscopy tomorrow
All I can say is good luck. I'm not sure what kind of pixie dust is appropriate, but I'll send some anyway! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
Sue
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04-23-2002, 09:29 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
Posts: 9,422
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Re: Gettin the ol Colonoscopy tomorrow
Thanks for the ... puns (Bottoms up! [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img] ). I am feeling a little better now. I finished the "drink" about a half hour ago. Other than feeling very cold (huddled with a blankie at the 'puter) the worst is over.
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"I can see all the way to Cleveland!"
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">That reminds me of a MRI of my head a couple of years ago. They were checking on my Melanoma progress. The doctors office called after and said "The good news is your head is empty!" |
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04-23-2002, 09:43 PM
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Community Rank: Wayfarer 
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Cicero, IL
Posts: 161
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Re: Gettin the ol Colonoscopy tomorrow
When I had mine done the doc said to me. "You get to watch this on the TV." I told him, no thats ok I would rather watch something else. He said that this set only has one chanel. So you know what we watched. Good luck. We hope that everything goes OK. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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04-23-2002, 11:16 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Kyle, Texas
Posts: 601
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Re: Gettin the ol Colonoscopy tomorrow
I'm with you. Just relax and you'll be fine. I had my first at the tender age of 13 when I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. Believe me they are not nearly as uncomfortable today as they were 25 years ago [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] . And don't get me started on the barium [img]graemlins/yuma.gif[/img] . As bad as the exams were back then it was still better than spending three weeks in the hospital on a liquid diet. That reminds me. I need to set up an appointment for a checkup.
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