"Can I get the chicken fingers and fries?" "Kids or adults?"
I just got back from an amazing family vacation. That's right. I went to Disney World. It was a dream come true. I did rides, saw princesses. experienced countries in Epcot, stayed at a resort, I couldn't have asked for a more fun time. Unless of course I could have been healthy during it.
Despite the fact that I prepped for the vacation by doing a course of IV steroids for preparation, staying on a good 50mg of prednisone each day. I took my medications religiously, but yet somehow I got sicker while I was down there.
The first couple of days I went ham. I walked up to 5-6 hours a day, stayed out late with my dad, and had a blast. Doing this, I burnt out quickly. by the third day I started getting so much pain, having to use the bathroom a lot and got totally exhausted after only a few minutes of walking. After a particularly bad episode of pain only at about 9am, my family convinced me to allow them to rent a wheelchair for me. I wasn't pleased. I hate it when my disease can impact my life like that.
Being sick in the most magical place in the world, was quite an experience. As much as it sucked, there was an element of humour around the whole thing. I turn 20 at the end of July (I know, big deal.) but due to my baby face, short height, and small stature (a lot of which is caused by my Crohn's) I look a lot younger than I am. The most recent guestimation of my age was 14....
I milk it and I'll appreciate it when I'm older.
However, put me in a wheelchair, in Disney World, add on my young look, pale/sickly complexion, and the tiny tiara I stuck in my top knot of thin hair, I was treated literally like a child. Employees gave me sympathetic smiles, wished me to have a "Magical Day" at every corner, and held out giant push Mickey hands asking for high fives... I was tickled that they thought I was so young.
I highly doubt if I actually looked 20 years old, or at 16 but healthy, they would have talked to me in that sing song overly peppy voice. I didn't mind it though, they were doing their job, selling the magic.
And despite the fact that I couldn't walk for over half the vacation, I still had a magical time.
I'll be back to the daily posts now!
