dayna
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I've been a member now for a short while. I've posted a bit and gotten some great advice!
My name is Dayna, I live in Keaau Hawaii. I moved here a year ago from Juneau Alaska. I moved myself, my husband, my teenaged daughter, 7 parrots a dog here.
We'd been planning on moving here for a while. Our plans were put on hold when in Dec 2010, I took my Mom to the ER because she wasn't acting normal. She was always very healthy but all the sudden didn't even know what day it was. They found a large brain tumor. She was dischared to me that night, I didn't sleep a wink. They should have kept her, she had a seizure and I took her back. A couple days later I had her stable enough to fly to Seattle. We saw a neurosurgeon named Dr. Nussbaum. He saved my moms life for the first time two days after we met. He removed as much tumor as he could. We finally had a name for the cancer. Glioblastoma Multiforme. AKA "the terminator".
Chemo, radiation, etc. A year later the tumor was back and Dr Nussbaum did a second crainiotomy and saved my Moms life again. She sadly passed away the day before Mothers day 2012 with me by her side, helping to ease her into the afterlife. I washed her body, and sent her for cremation. (my parents were divorced so I was "IT" to care for her during her entire illness).
A week later my husband got a phone call from someone in Hawaii. They offered him his DREAM job within the government. He's an investigator. My Mom had passed away, so I had nothing holding me back but my EX refusing to give me custody of my daughter.
She called her Dad up and said if you don't sign it, I'll get emancipated. So he signed.
Everything fell into place, one peice after another. We showed up with no place to live and 7 parrots and a teenager. (granted we could camp but geeeze). We had a two night rental. The first day here I found a cottage for rent that would allow me to have the parrots! We rented that for two months while we looked at houses.
When it seemed we wouldn't find a house, a foreclosure came on the market. We placed an offer and closed in record time. 24 hours before our lease was up at the cottage.
So now we're raising goats, rabbits, chickens, etc. I have a sannen bred to a boer goat due next weekend. The rabbits are being raised for meat/pets for sale.
I have a 3 acre guava orchid that I'm learning how to care for. I also raise other veggies and fruits, but having come from Alaska I really don't know how to grow anything. lol Plus we've just finished building the aviary for our macaws and are working on the aviaries for our amazons and cockatoo.
Our chickens just started laying and I dance each time I find a new egg.
I miss my Mom. A lot. For almost two years I took care of her every need. I provided all her care. Cleaning apartment, cleaning her, medication, doc appointments, emotional, everything. The anniversery this year falls ON mothers day. It's going to be a really hard day for me this year. I'm 34, she was 56. Too young to be seperated.
My daughter is 16, she's fabulous. She is in AP everyhing, starting college this summer and graduating highschool a year early. She wants to go to med schoo. I'm so proud, I dropped out at 16 and got a ged and had her at 17. She's already so much of a better person and so much smarter than me.
I quilt, a special type of quilting. I do an applique of art work that I created of parrots onto quilt squares. So far I've auctioned off a few for parrot rescues like The Gabriel Foudnation. It's a labor of love. I've recently started painting in acrylics on canvas and that's pretty fun. Birds have been my subjects so far.
I'm not religious but have taken an interest in the Bible. There is a series on TV that is pretty hollywood. I am planning on reading the bible. It's an interesting book.
I read a lot. I love hanging out with my goats. I adore star trek in all it's series.
I'm sure there's more but that's probably bored you all to death. I just wanted to put a personality with a user name.
My name is Dayna, I live in Keaau Hawaii. I moved here a year ago from Juneau Alaska. I moved myself, my husband, my teenaged daughter, 7 parrots a dog here.
We'd been planning on moving here for a while. Our plans were put on hold when in Dec 2010, I took my Mom to the ER because she wasn't acting normal. She was always very healthy but all the sudden didn't even know what day it was. They found a large brain tumor. She was dischared to me that night, I didn't sleep a wink. They should have kept her, she had a seizure and I took her back. A couple days later I had her stable enough to fly to Seattle. We saw a neurosurgeon named Dr. Nussbaum. He saved my moms life for the first time two days after we met. He removed as much tumor as he could. We finally had a name for the cancer. Glioblastoma Multiforme. AKA "the terminator".
Chemo, radiation, etc. A year later the tumor was back and Dr Nussbaum did a second crainiotomy and saved my Moms life again. She sadly passed away the day before Mothers day 2012 with me by her side, helping to ease her into the afterlife. I washed her body, and sent her for cremation. (my parents were divorced so I was "IT" to care for her during her entire illness).
A week later my husband got a phone call from someone in Hawaii. They offered him his DREAM job within the government. He's an investigator. My Mom had passed away, so I had nothing holding me back but my EX refusing to give me custody of my daughter.
She called her Dad up and said if you don't sign it, I'll get emancipated. So he signed.
Everything fell into place, one peice after another. We showed up with no place to live and 7 parrots and a teenager. (granted we could camp but geeeze). We had a two night rental. The first day here I found a cottage for rent that would allow me to have the parrots! We rented that for two months while we looked at houses.
When it seemed we wouldn't find a house, a foreclosure came on the market. We placed an offer and closed in record time. 24 hours before our lease was up at the cottage.
So now we're raising goats, rabbits, chickens, etc. I have a sannen bred to a boer goat due next weekend. The rabbits are being raised for meat/pets for sale.
I have a 3 acre guava orchid that I'm learning how to care for. I also raise other veggies and fruits, but having come from Alaska I really don't know how to grow anything. lol Plus we've just finished building the aviary for our macaws and are working on the aviaries for our amazons and cockatoo.
Our chickens just started laying and I dance each time I find a new egg.
I miss my Mom. A lot. For almost two years I took care of her every need. I provided all her care. Cleaning apartment, cleaning her, medication, doc appointments, emotional, everything. The anniversery this year falls ON mothers day. It's going to be a really hard day for me this year. I'm 34, she was 56. Too young to be seperated.
My daughter is 16, she's fabulous. She is in AP everyhing, starting college this summer and graduating highschool a year early. She wants to go to med schoo. I'm so proud, I dropped out at 16 and got a ged and had her at 17. She's already so much of a better person and so much smarter than me.
I quilt, a special type of quilting. I do an applique of art work that I created of parrots onto quilt squares. So far I've auctioned off a few for parrot rescues like The Gabriel Foudnation. It's a labor of love. I've recently started painting in acrylics on canvas and that's pretty fun.
Birds have been my subjects so far.I'm not religious but have taken an interest in the Bible. There is a series on TV that is pretty hollywood. I am planning on reading the bible. It's an interesting book.
I read a lot. I love hanging out with my goats. I adore star trek in all it's series.
I'm sure there's more but that's probably bored you all to death. I just wanted to put a personality with a user name.
