On the 19th, I applied for the IBCCES Accessibility Card for my daughter (she was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes when she was 5…she just turned 16) for our upcoming trip. I logged in and saw that she was approved today. I am honestly gobsmacked that she was approved because the only thing I had on hand to submit was her lab orders for her upcoming bloodwork appt. I had applied for the card and honestly assumed we would be denied, but I just wanted to see exactly what they wanted from her doctor since we have an endocrinologist appt next week. I will probably still get a letter just in case, but I am truly shocked that they approved her with just that lab order.
We have never tried to get the
DAS at Disney, and we didn’t know that Universal had a program like that since last year was our first trip there. My daughter is so painfully shy and has had some bad experiences where she was left out/made to feel different as a result of being diabetic, so she didn’t even want to try to get any assistance passes. But this whole online/over the phone option is a huge game changer and she would like to try to get them now. She is a lot more comfortable doing the video chat with Disney or talking on the phone with someone from Universal than she would be standing in front of people and trying to “plead her case.” She didn’t even want me to do it on her behalf at the parks.
I am being cautiously optimistic about this and am interested in seeing how long it takes to hear from Universal.