Lessons I learned on vacation (the hard way)
 

#1 Do not visit Hell while in Grand Cayman Islands. (Once you've been to Hell and back, life takes a downward spiral.)

#2 When you return from Hell, be very careful. Important: Do not hurry while walking on tile floor on cruise ship or you may take a bad spill and turn your ankle.

#3 Remember what your DH is wearing so he can be easily located by the waiters.

#4 On a brighter note, your visit to the ship's doctor is free, including x-rays, resetting broken fibula, splint and crutches.

#5 Get used to your crutches slowly, or you may take another bad spill in the bathroom at Wendy's once you get to shore.

#6 Remember what your DH is wearing so the employee who finds your body half on the floor, half in the toilet, can summon him quickly before someone calls 911.

#7 When the paramedics arrive, insist you are not hurt, even though you suspect you may have broken a rib.

#8 Do not allow your DH to drag you to one of those stupid time share seminars.

#9 Just in case you missed it, re-read #8.

#10 After you've exhausted all your precious energy looking at the time-share condo ON CRUTCHES, just say NO! Again and again, because the time-share people will not understand it the first 20 times.

#11 Grab your Disney World discount tickets at your first opportunity and run! Or hobble as fast as you can on your crutches, ignoring pain from broken ankle and ribs.

#12 When at Epcot Center, rent a wheelchair for $10 so you don't have to wait in lines. Be careful that the bag of ice on your broken ankle does not melt and turn to water, or some wiseguy will ask: "You got a goldfish in there?" (Yes, it really happened! Lol!)

#13 Let your DH adjust your wheelchair so you don't pinch your finger. After you get your finger pinched in the wheelchair mechanism, have DH get you a cup of ice to soak it in.

#14 Know in advance it is going to feel weird when you and DH use the "community bathroom" together! It is just too weird to sit on the commode and have a male doing the "man stance" in the urinal right next to you! Also, be aware that men make noises that we delicate females are not accustomed to! (DH is sitting here denying this).

It's been an educational vacation and thought I'd share with my MS buddies so you don't make the same mistakes. Don't know when I will check in again. Our plane won't take us home till Saturday. Not sure I can survive another 5 days of R&R. :eek: Please pray for me.

Good to have you back Twink.....

Hope you enjoyed your holiday.....but...

Tell me you didn't break anything....tell me this was just embroidey for any-one who wanted to hear about your trip.

Tell me it isn't true Twink!!

Common Twink.....you were kidding us ...weren't you?

Please say you were......

wow Not sure I want to plan a vacation...we are thinking florida...but probably at a too hot for my sxs time..but only time we really can do it with the kids.....inlaws live there...so might be there two weeks...(hubby already said something teasing me about taking me so my feet can go numb so much that I cant feel anything...)

sorry about your vacation fun...:rolleyes: hugssss,sarah (come home safely dear)

You tell such a good story that you make it difficult to feel bad for you, but I'm forcing myself. Just kidding. Praying for your speedy recovery, but in the meantime, we'd all enjoy reading the chapters in the ongoing saga...

Hello there Twinkle from across state. Hope your trip was fun anyways.

Twink,
While I feel bad reading your story, you made me laugh so hard DH remarked on it. I fell on bathroom tile floornthe other day, split side of nose open (luckily after years of being a mommy, know head wounds can bleed ALOT so didn't panic at blood on floor). No scar left!!!!

I've been to condo things. Not fun either but got a room free at a ski lodge.

Twink,
Obviously fun ain't for sissies.

OMG!!!:eek: Twink you certainly are making memories of this vacation.

Although, it is hard not to smile at your story. Maybe it's the way you worded it. LOL.

Take it easy and enjoy the rest of your vacation.

Two words......Good Lord!!!

Ouch! Sorry to hear about the spills accompanying your thrills.

Despite everything, I hope you did have some fun. Glad to see your humor is still there. :)

Oh, and I do agree about those "time-share" people. They do not take "no" for an answer even when you are blue in the face.

:hug:

Oh my goodness. It sure is a good thing you have a sense of humor
Twink. Feel better soon.
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Soxmom

Thank you everyone
 

I'm using a stupid motel room keyboard and can't thank you individually. So please accept my thanks en masse. I knew you guys would help me feel better! :)

Now I can't remember who said they were planning a Florida vaca -- good luck! Temp yesterday at Epcot was pleasant b/c it was cloudy half the day. Got to 87 the day before.

Remember we had a thread somewhere about who could jump? Glad I can jump a little b/c our cabin on the ship had a bathroom where you stepped up about 6 inches. That worked until the last day when I got my splint and couldn't bear weight on it. Try and jump UP 6 inches, even holding on to something (I used DH). It's nearly impossible! Too small of area to use crutches. Aaaarrrgh!

The good news is that DH finally quit telling me to HURRY! We're on vacation, but he's stuck in work mode and thinks we have to hurry everywhere. Now he tells me to take my time. Aaaaahhhhh! Music to my ears!

Will check in again when I can. Heading from Orlando to Tallahassee today. I will wave at you jmiller and nevadaleftie. Made plans to see Joelleelee2000, but she had to go see her poor sick mother in NY. Waving at burntmarshmallow too!

Have a great day everyone! Hugssss from Florida!

OMG, :thud: I'm at a loss for words. I'm so sorry your vacation has caused so much pain. :hug:

Gosh, Twink. You're a tougher woman than I am. . . . I would have been laid up in a hotel room somewhere! Or on a plane back home. I'm just a wimp when it comes to injuries - I wanna be waited on and fussed over.

I've learned the hard way to be ever so careful on floor surfaces that I'm not familiar with. I almost busted my butt at the mall one weekend because they put tile floors down where carpet had been. Nobody told ME!!! :Slip:

I'm really sorry you've had such a time of it - I hope at least you've gotten to enjoy some of the scenery and attractions. Hey, you gonna mail us all a postcard from the various places you've visited!!? :D

Wishing your trip to have a little less humor and a bit more fun! Take care of yourself out there! It's a great big world ;)

OMG!! That sounds like a vacation that will require another vacation to recouperate from. I'm so sorry that you are so banged up. I do hope there was enough fun in there to make it worth it.

Hey Twink,

When I said "have a good trip"!, I didn't mean it literally. I told you those cruises could be interesting.What a trooper to keep on with the vacation plans on crutches!! I hope the rest of your trip is quiet and uneventful! I had to laugh also at your post, it was so well written. At least you didn't lose your sense of humor.Try to stay out of trouble.!!

Hey Twink, bummer that you got so carried away with the adventure mode on your vacation!

Take care and try to get home alive, eh?

Hi Ro!!

Missed you and with the exception of your "boo-boos" hope you are enjoying your "trip"!
:p

btw: glad you started the postcard exchange; we are all enjoying that!!
:)

Hugs and giggles,
Janie

Ummm, Twink, I think you need to come home now.

Omigosh Twinks! :hug:

I hope you had fun in between all the torture! You poor thing! I'm glad you haven't lost your sense of humor though!

I think the biggest lesson you've learned from your *vacation in hell*, is to be a very very good girl, when you get back home..:D

I hope you heal fast..and enjoy the rest of your week..:hug:

am glad u made it back in one piece,

my next door neighbor got married in hell, :eek:

love your sardonioc humor

try to take it easy

So sorry you had so many misadventures, but couldn't help but chuckle when I read your "What I did on my vacation to Hell" essay.

Take care of yourself...I love your ability to make fun of a rough experience...

OMG!! Not the best way to spend a vacation! Hope you can salvage some of it and do something fun...

take care....

Twink!

It sounds like you need to stop having so much fun! Anymore might actually disable you permanently! :p

Send UP the HEAT, will ya??

ROFL!!! I guess not!...as Twink has proven! LOL!

Sorry you had such a time of it. But thanks for the laughs! :D:hug: Kim

OMG, you must be my TWIN!! That's the sort of vacations that I get to go on. :D

Well, it's good to know you maintained your sense of humor throughout it. And those time-share people.... ugh.... they really, really don't get it. I'm thinking signs rating their performance and also having big "NO" on the back might work. Visual aids, ya know?

Heal quickly.

ROFL

Oh Twinkletoes, if you really didn't want to meet me, you could have just said so!!! :D LOL

I actually talked to Twinkie today, and the first thing she said was, "Have you read my thread?"

This account was much more funny than the on phone account!

I hope you are mending well now!

:hug:

Hello from Havana!
 

Havana, Florida, that is...:)

I made it thru the day w/o a single fall! Whew! DH now hooks his finger thru my belt loop when I'm crutching my way to the bathroom, etc. Esp. when I'm trying to swing UP a step.

The Good news: I found an orthopedic doc in Gainesville, FL who saw me today at a moment's notice. He was nice and explained things clearly. Didn't talk down to us, so we felt very good about getting in to him.

He prescribed some good pain drugs, (Lortab), but I don't know if I dare take them: afraid the effect may cause another fall. I don't really need them at this point anyway, but nice to have them just in case.

The Bad news: as suspected by the original ship's doc, I do need surgery. I'll get a metal plate with screws to pull my ankle parts together properly. If not, Dr. guaranteed I'd suffer from chronic swelling and terrible rheumatoid arthritis in it forever. I have already arranged an appt. back home in Utah for a consult.

He also upgraded my splint to an "air boot." It's gray and square and bulky like something Frankenstein would wear. You actually get a little bulb syringe thingy that pumps air into it once you put it on. And I can remove it while in the tub/shower! Yippee! I won't have 2" of leg hair at the end of this ordeal! :D

While DH pushed me around Epcot Center yesterday, I saw people in wheelchairs in much worse condition than a simple bone fracture. There was a man whose legs looked like he'd probably never be able to walk. And a beautiful young teenage girl who had no legs at all.

Some of you on this website have conditions that cause you much pain and difficulty. I have no room to complain. God, forgive me when I whine. I continue to remember you in my prayers and thank you for remembering me in yours. :grouphug: It's nice to have such good friends!

Twink - Sorry you will need surgery. I hope you heal quickly.

Do your best to relax and enjoy the rest of your vacation.

naturally, I'm interested in the Hell part...

:Melting 2:

what I REALLY want is a postcard from Hell!

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/4...devilinmh7.jpg

didja get any?

:icon_evil:

please say you did!

:Poke:

I would cherish it for ALL my days!

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/8...yman003cz3.jpg

since you're laid up, you can occupy yourself with this Dante's Inferno Purity Test to find out what level of hell you're going to end up ensconced in, if, mayhap, Heaven isn't quite on your personal future menu...

http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv

looks like I'm damned to an eternity of Harpies pecking at my poor bones!

:holysheep:

More information please kay!

Is "Hell" a township in South America..... or one of those places we shouldn't really talk about?

If it is a township...do we asume that is you, "mi esponso" and eldest son standing in front of sign?


Well........not mi esponso....K esponso.....

naw, those are *found online* type pix...

I wanted to see the place that caused our sweet Twink such an ordeal.

I googled HELL, Grand Cayman Islands, and image.

personally, I've never had the *pleasure* of going to Hell.

:cool:

*stop kickin' me with that AIRBOOT, Twink!*

Think you had my ghost from Mommas porch following you around Twink. The next time you visit Momma leave 2 brownies and a hot chocolate and the curse of jmiller's ghost will leave you. Otherwise carry lots of duct tape.

Hey Twink, what did you do? I heard on the radio a little bleep about the power going out in Florida.:eek: What the heck.

Come home, girl.:D