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Oh my goodness. I fell so far behind and now I'm about in tears for you and all you are going through. I know that canceling the trip is sad, but the news about your mom is a tough one. I truly hope that it is bone/breast cancer. But then that sounds awful as I don't hope that anyone has cancer, but since they have already diagnosed as cancer and the bone/breast sounds like the better of the two as they know how to treat it. Besides your mom already won the breast cancer so she can do it again! Right now you just need to take everything day to day. WDW isn't going anywhere and although it is a bummer to have to wait it's important to keep your families sanity and finances in order.
Thanks everyone so much for the thoughts, prayers and pixies. Mom's surgrey yesterday went well and they got a good sample. We won't know the results until the 19th and I'm going with her to the doctor for that one. Not anticipating a happy day - but at least we will have some answers and a direction.
I cancelled most of the Disney stuff - I just need to call and cancel the tours and see if I can get anything back on the House of Blues. I cancelled the flights and was hoping I could use the funds to book for next August but I have to use the credit by March 3 2015. So there is still a glimmer of hope that I may take Evan down in November for Jersey Week. It will be tighter in the funds department but I'd hate to lose the airfare completely and there is no other time that he will be out of school other than the holidays - no thanks. I just need to check with my mom if she would mind if we used all the credit as the flights are more expensive now that all the cheap rates are gone. Afterall she did pay for them so technically it is her credit.
Keep your fingers crossed for all of us on all the stuff going on right now. Hopefully I'll be back on the 20th with good news.
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I'm so sorry for all you're going through, Holly. I know it was hard to cancel the trip you've planned for and saved for, but of course you had to do it. I'm glad the surgery went well and will hope for good news.
Mom has breast cancer in her bones and lungs. This was really the best news we were hoping for. At this point she is going on hormones as her treatment and does not need chemo or radiation. If she responds well to this treatment her life could be relatively normal. She will never be cured or in remission but it will just be a matter of how well the doctors can manage the disease. She began the medicine last night and goes back to the doctor in a month for her blood counts and to see how things are going. I know she has been waiting for a month to get this ball rolling so I know that mentally she is already doing better. Physically she is better than she was but will never go back to how she was before all this happened. She is learning her new limits.
I will officially close out this thread and move her updates over to the Family and Friends forum.
We had to cancel all Disney this year. I tried to rebook for November but the credit on South West could only be used by each person. I thought Evan and I could use the whole credit but we could only use our portions. After pricing it all out I would have owed another $500 since we got the cheap rates and they are now all gone. I just couldn't come up with that money.
I’m sending a doctor’s letter to SW for see if we can get an extension on the credit as their rules state we need to complete travel one year from the date of booking which was March 2014. So we only have the credit until March 2015 and all travel must be completed by then. I don’t see us being able to use it by then since Evan is in school. Hopefully SW will give us a refund or extension. Here is to hoping anyway.
I'm gonna save real hard this year and planning on WDW in August of 2015 instead. I'll start a new TR when that time gets closer.
We are planning a trip to DC in November over teacher convention so hopefully Mom will feel up to the trip. So keep an eye out for that PTR sometime in October.
At this point I'm hoping that next August's trip will mimic what I had planned for this year except not staying at Shades of Green and now I need to see about getting Evan into the new Cars ride-along at the Disney Speedway. He would love that.
Thank you all for following along with me and for your thoughts and prayers and well wishes. Unfortunately too many of us can relate to illness and cancelling trips. But Disney is my happy place and I will be getting back there soon.
I'm glad you got the news you were hoping for and the bone cancer is primary breast cancer. It's amazing that they can now treat many cancers as chronic diseases and manage them over time. I hope all goes well for your mom as she adjusts to her new limitations. So sorry you won't get to WDW this year, but you'll have a better trip when you can do it without the stress of getting into debt and having too many emotional loose ends.
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