Hi Everyone,
Just thought i'd let you know how things are going,, and tell you bout my vacation.... lol
Ok so I was excited to go with my family. I went online and found a Cabin. I looked at the pictures and looked really nice and big.. I wanted big for my daughter that is in a wheelchair. I've tried to fiend a Wheel Chair assessable Cabin and they are few and far between. So with my husbands help we just make due with what we have.....
anyway Quess what the name of our cabin was???? The "tree-house" yea I thought that was sooo cute.
well we got there the outside was very nice. opened the door very nice big living room and kitchen. then went to find the bedrooms.
OMG,,,, there was no bedrooms on the bottom floor... however there was a really cute SMALL spiral like stair case. very small but made out of logs. (narrow) so up two flights of i'd say about Maybe 2feet across stairway then finally a bedroom.. then up two more flights of stairs.... two more bedrooms...... then up two more flights of narrow spiral stair-case and the top of the house double doors to go out side and BBQ- ETC...
Ok soooooooo sounds really nice hu??????? except for my daughter is paralyzed from her chest down,,,,, my leg weakness is OFF THE ROOF... I think because it was 90 degrees out.
So my sweet husband Say's 'NO PROBLEM"!!! We can do this!!! so he piggy-backs my daughter up the stairs barely getting up due to the narrowness. comes back down sweating like crazy... I picked up the wheelchair to help him... he says put that down!!! I can get it... Yea he is a real Gem!!!!
So my daughter that is paralyzed got the first bedroom then ours and my other daughters was on the second floor... remember that is 4 flights of stairs. My legs were so weak, they would actually shake really bad coming down the stairs. It scared me cause It felt like they were going out on me.. I had shorts on and my husband noticed and very concerned. I told him I was just fine we are going to make this the BEST vacation for us and the kids. So I was just extra careful and did the best I could. So anyway after getting everything in and put away. I was sooooo exhausted I feel asleep.. Yea what fun for the kids hu?????? My sweet husband took the kids out to dinner while I slept till the next morning when I got up I told myself "Nothing is going to stop me from making this a fun day for my kids and husband" so we left to the cute down town area,,, full of stores on both sides of the street,,, the kids were so excited they wanted to hit every single store..... it was at least 90degrees out and i thought to myself... (lord help me) so off we went I was fine for the first 30 minutes WHOA!!!!!!!! Then my leg was so weak it felt like it was giving out at thknee, very strange. I kept wanting to stay inside the stores as long as possible becasue at least they had a little air conditioning. Then we came accross a store with sticks.. canes really neat.. my husband immediately bought me one,, I was soooooooo glad,, but the kids were HORRIFIED.... yea I couldn't understand? I said well its this or you guys could take me back to the cabin. so they were ok with it. but it really embarrassed them??????? they are teenagers,,, well one is the other acts like one. so anyway it helped me ALOT, and i was very grateful for it. we continued on our day.
Ok so why do I tell you all this? well first of all I consider you my friends,, and second of all, I have a really hard time asking for help.. I'm the (care-giver) I have been all my life. I've always considered myself strong and never needed anyhelp. but this weekend taught me that I guess its ok,, you know I dont know what I would of done without that cane that day.
the next 2 days I was totally whipped.. couldn't do anything, trying to get my strength back. but i'm telling you it was worth it and my kids and husband had a wonderful time. although we will NEVER rent the Tree house again. It was an experience and we made the best of it and had a great time.
ok i'll quit rambling
love and prayers to you all
Ray