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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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.
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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!
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Well, here it is... I've got this dilemma and I am so wishy-washy about it that I thought I'd post it here as a sounding board. Maybe you all can give me a different perspective. I'm esp. anxious to hear what RNlovesStitch has to say...
If you are pregnant, please please please do not read this thread
I have two wonderful kids. DS is 3 1/2 and DD is turning the big "1" on the 29th. DH keeps asking me if I want another baby, and I'm really not sure. Look, I'm no spring chicken, folks, so if we want another baby I really can't wait a few more years to make up my mind. It isn't the staying up at night, it isn't the nursing for a year, it isn't the hectic scheduling and time management, it isn't the money and the small house. It's the L&D.
DS was a wonderful, normal birth (albeit many hours of labor and loads of pitocin)(and an epidural - THANK GOD). But DD was the opposite. Went into labor in the morning of my due date, labored all day with no need for an epi. Around 8 pm I was just so tired I decided to get the epdiural. It's important to know I had only 1 bag of fluid before my epidural. Everything was going just fine and then right after the epidural was in, my blood pressure dropped. The whole room went white. I couldn't see, I could barely hear. The nurse called the anesthesiologist, she kept shouting my name and saying "stay with me", but I could barely grasp it. Then everything "appeared" again. It scared the crap out of me and I balled my eyes. But it's labor, and you can't focus on anything but labor... so... I tried to move forward. Labor slows down, then picks up. They turn off the epi so I can push. I push until it is clear that the baby wasn't going to budge, and off the the OR for an emergency c-section. When the (same) anesthesiologist gives me another shot of med's via my epidual I swear I feel woozy and it started to freak me out. But then baby is born, and I have no worries. Slowly I say "I think I can feel something." And as the anesthesiologist asks me "Is it pressure or pain?" white hot pain rides through my entire body. I have no epi. I'm wiggling my toes. I'm wide open and I'm in agony. DH and baby are very quickly escorted out of the room. My nurse comes and grasps my hand and I just remember looking at her and screaming. Doctor has to stop operating. I'm losing blood while the anesthesiologist LEAVES THE OR to get something to knock me out. Finally he comes back and says "You're going to feel very sleepy" which I am welcoming. After surgery, I am taken to the recovery room. My nurse sits with me for about fifteen minutes I guess, I was loopy. She said she had to take a break and so-and-so was going to watch me. So-and-so left the room after five minutes and never came back. No one told DH if I was ok or brought him back to see me. It was more than two hours after he was escorted from the OR when he walked back on his own (in a "secured" area) to find me in recovery. I was having nightmares afterward. I'd wake up in the middle of the night afraid I was going to die in my sleep. I was having trouble bonding with DD because I associated her birth with fear and pain. No one would answer my questions about the surgery for fear of a law suit so I have no answers and no closure.
I wrote a letter to the President of the hospital. I talked with the head of the nursing dept., who was really wonderful (OB nurses are the best nurses on the planet, I'm not kidding). I talked with the head of the anesthesia dept. (he gave me my epi with DS and I felt confident with him) and he promised that if I decide to have another baby, he would make me his single patient. I have discussed my fears with all of the OB's in my practice and have decided on one who (or is it whom? I forgot the rule) I think has the calmest bedside manner and who says he is willing to give me extra time and care. But if I have another baby, I must have a scheduled c-section - no VBAC. And switching to a new hospital is kind of risky since this hospital is in my town and the next closest is a 40-minute drive away (at best). I've been as pro-active with my care as I possibly can. And I'm still on the fence.
I want another baby to fill my house, to love and to care for... for the extra giggles and to see the wonderful bright eyes during the it's a small world ride, but I am so scared that when I drive by the hospital I cry and shake at the thought of it. I saw a therapist and she gave me excellent tools to help cope with the post-traumatic-stress-disorder, and yet I'm still on the fence. I honestly don't know what to do. And like I said, DH keeps asking me. He says no pressure, but I'm feeling the pressure. Self-made pressure or otherwise.
Anyway... I'm not going to ask "what would you do" because I think that this is a decision I really need to make on my own, but I would really listen to and accept different points of view and new things to consider. I really want to start a dialogue to help me get out of the rut of "do I? don't I?" So.... deep breath... I'm all ears (Disney pun intended).
THANK YOU!! For taking the time to read this lengthy, disturbing and deeply personal post and for giving me kind feedback.
PS. after re-reading my post I have come to the conclusion that I need to stop using the word "really"!!
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