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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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10-18-2006, 07:54 PM
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Uncle Duck
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Paradise, CA
Concierge Level: 6
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Re: Longest Hospital Stays
One week. In the sixth grade I had a hernia operation, and got home Christmas eve. Now they often send you home the next day! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]
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10-18-2006, 09:00 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Indiana , USA
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 26,527
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Re: Longest Hospital Stays
I did 5 days for DD Samantha's birth - went in at 5AM Thurs. and left at 1PM on Monday.
Later, after Samantha was injured I spent months there (but went home at night - DH stayed with her). She was in from June 28, 1990 to Dec. 21, 1990. Then, lots of smaller stays.
The worst was the 2 months when she went to re-hab, and I stayed with her 24/7, in Chicago (and I had a one year old baby)
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10-18-2006, 09:27 PM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Long Island, NY
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 4,168
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Re: Longest Hospital Stays
The was in the hospital for 5 days after I got my hand caught in a conveyor belt at work. This was also the first time I was in an ambulance, first time in the ER, first time to have surgery and my first time to have stitches. I took care of everything in one shot!
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10-18-2006, 09:47 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Kissimmee, FL
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 10,481
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Re: Longest Hospital Stays
My only hospital stay was two days when I had ear surgery in 2002...they gave me good drugs so the world would not spin like a top! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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10-18-2006, 09:59 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: central Iowa
Posts: 11,837
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Re: Longest Hospital Stays
I spent 6 weeks in the hospital when I was 21
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10-18-2006, 10:18 PM
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Tinkerbell's Aunt
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: McHenry IL
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 13,254
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Re: Longest Hospital Stays
3 nights/4 days after the birth of my DD and after my hysterctomy. I was only in for 2 nights/3 days for DS.
Oops! I just remembered. I was in the hospital for a week when I was 16 with Mono. Things sure have changed since then, haven't they.
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10-18-2006, 10:30 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Posts: 27,691
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Re: Longest Hospital Stays
The only hospital stays I've ever had were for the birth of both my boys. With Kylor 2 days, Jalen 3.
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10-18-2006, 11:40 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 8,784
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Re: Longest Hospital Stays
Also have only been there for the births of my sons. 3 days for Aidan and 2 for Danny
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10-19-2006, 12:35 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Indiana , USA
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 26,527
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Re: Longest Hospital Stays
Ooops, Lesley made me remember - I know mom said that I was in hospital for weeks when I was 3. I had mono.
kind of ties with Chrissi's post about talking pre-schoolers. Mom says that time was the best she'd had as a mom. Older DD didn't talk much, and I did. I got mono, and I slept for 6 months straight mom says. Went to sleep at 3, woke up in time to go to kindergarten!
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10-19-2006, 01:43 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Near a Tower of Terror at the moment...
Posts: 13,884
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Re: Longest Hospital Stays
DD1's & DD2's births, 3 days each, back when you could stay longer after a non-c-section delivery. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img]
With DD4 (now 8yo), I was admitted at 430pm and discharged at 7am the next day (although this was not a bad thing...). [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]
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10-19-2006, 02:14 AM
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PassPorter Message Board Manager
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Community Rank: Legend VIP 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Maidstone, Kent, UK
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 190,285
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Re: Longest Hospital Stays
Fortunately only one night to remove all my wisdom teeth.
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10-19-2006, 04:20 AM
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Dopey's biggest fan!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: China Spring, TX
Concierge Level: 9
Posts: 26,975
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Re: Longest Hospital Stays
3.5 days for the birth of DD . . . I was admitted at 6:15pm on a Thursday, went through nearly 30 hours of labor then was discharged at 1-2pm on Monday.
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10-19-2006, 07:12 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Michigan
Posts: 2,183
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Re: Longest Hospital Stays
5 days when I was younger. In the last 10 years only 23hrs long enough to give birth and get out.
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10-19-2006, 07:13 AM
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RED SOX NATION!!
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 9
Posts: 136,854
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Re: Longest Hospital Stays
About 48 hours (for the birth of each kid).
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10-19-2006, 08:18 AM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Maine
Posts: 5,893
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Re: Longest Hospital Stays
One week when I had a c-section with my oldest DD.
I was in labor for 36 hours. Failure to progress led to the c-section. I got an infection, and she got jaundice.
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