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Pack Light & Love Heavy

February 27, 2017 12:24 am , Leave a Comment ,

I just finished tucking the kiddos in tonight, and I am sitting next to them on my bed starting to write this post.  I’m missing Cory madly as he’s been gone on the mainland back home in Bend for over a week working on Lone Mill as well as working tirelessly on our home so that it is ready for whatever is next.

I’ve been reminded today to pack light and love heavy.  I’ll tell you that I never ever expected to have to leave all our things, all our people, all our animals, and all our comforts so suddenly… but good has come from it for sure.  It is the only way that I have ever found to SLOW DOWN!  We instantly left our crazy schedules, kiddos and I dropped all commitments, we couldn’t say yes to anything else… and for someone who didn’t know how to say no, this is not a place I thought I’d ever be able to be at.

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We had to pack light… we came with 6 checked bags and our carry ons. We don’t have too much clutter (yet).

We are able to love heavy… we have eachother and I am fighting fiercely for beauty-full family times.  We jumped into an amazing church family that has embraced us, they check on us, they include us, they are messy humans just like we are… but they are truly living out being the “hands and feet of Christ”.  We have been able to start spending time with Great Auntie Joan over here each week and we all sure love her.  We get lots of time with my brother Joel and his sweet girl Ally… they are here for us and have dropped everything at times that we needed help.  Just tonight, we had a lovely dinner with Cory’s parents who are visiting for a few weeks and an aunt and uncle too.

I am learning to make my YES matter, to not commit to too much, to love richly, to enjoy moments, and to not be sooooo hard on myself.

This isn’t where I thought our 2017 would have us.  We truly miss seeing faces of our family in Bend and our friends too.  We miss Jake our dog and Max and Harvey, Sergeant, and Huck (the other animals), I miss having a home and my bed, but we are choosing to find the beauty in this mess and when we really stop to count the blessings it is so full of beauty!

Please continue praying for:

Direction with our home/ ranch in Bend

Being able to afford a place here to call home for now

Severe Stomach pains to go away

Constant migraines to go away

Safe return to Oahu for Cory and sooooooon!

Finances for medical expenses and housing

HEALING

Praises for:

Cory getting home safely and his super hard work

Kiddos that are just taking this in stride

A roof over our heads

Friends

No Seizures

Less pain than at home

Live It OUT

Pack Light and Love Heavy!

Sincerely, Dani

Isaiah 40:29 He gives strength to the weary and increases                   the power of the weak.

Matthew 5:37 Let your yes mean yes, and your no mean no. Anything more than this comes from the evil one.

Posted in: Family, God, Health, Life, Live IT Out!, Lyme Disease, Prayer, Uncategorized

Can I ask you a favor?

February 18, 2017 12:15 am , 2 Comments ,

Hey there family and friends!  I was hoping to ask you each a favor… could you please each take the time to watch these two videos and share them on facebook, twitter, email, etc…???

We have to share this information.  This video is hard to watch, but it is so real.  I don’t know these people… but I was experiencing these same seizures every single day.  I have watched my husband, children, and our parents experience the fear that comes with these episodes.  I have wished I would die instead of have this amount of pain consume my body day in and day out.  I have been told these SAME EXACT things for over 25 years of my life… and I can assure you, this disease is violent, corrosive, debilitating, horrifying, more pain that I ever knew was humanly possible, and absolutely devastating to everyone who loves you.

These videos are of a young couple and two other ladies who have visited the same clinic we did in Germany.  They share how the Australian government views Lyme Disease (extremely similar to the USA), how they will only treat with two weeks of antibiotics, and how they do NOT believe it exists in their ticks or bugs.

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Outside of the St George Clinic

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My red pin in the middle of Oregon!

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Checking out of the hospital … one last pic in front of our room!

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I would do it all again here at this wonderful clinic… truly a blessing and it has marked the beginning of my health being restored!

Thank you for watching, sharing and continuing to pray for all of us infected by this disease and its co-infections.

Live It Out

Sincerely, Dani
Click HERE:   Part ONE

Then Click HERE:  Part TWO

 

Posted in: Family, Health, Life, Live IT Out!, Lyme Disease, Update

We’re Weary… but Pressing On!

February 13, 2017 7:58 pm , 8 Comments ,

We’re still here, but man Cory and I are weary!

Many people are asking what is next?  Where we are?  When we are coming back home?… all these answers are still hard for us to come up with.  We are trying to figure out what is next, we are still here in Hawaii, and we wish we knew when we’d be coming back home.

There are no simple answers right now.  What we do know is that the cold was the reason my extreme pain was set into having seizures.  We know that since coming to Hawaii I have not had one single seizure.  I am still experiencing lots of pain, migraines, major neurological symptoms, and I am barely getting any sleep.  However… given the seizures being gone, the fear of our nights turning into horrible pain and seizure episodes on the kiddos faces slowly fading, Cory realizing that does NOT have to be our normal over here, all make me feel like there is no reason to even complain about the other symptoms at all!

We need to find a short term solution to our property/home in Bend so that we can afford to rent a place over here (we thought prices in Bend were high!?  LOL).  So… if any of you know of someone who is needing a short term, furnished to the hilt, beautiful large home just minutes from town and yet so private and secluded… please send them our way ASAP!

I am continuing to take very strong antibiotics, antiparasitics, a gazillion pre and probiotics, detoxes in every way possible, and I am doing my darndest to stay very, very warm at all times.  (much easier over here than in Bend’s snow… but believe it or not, Hawaii does indeed have a winter season as well.  We have had many cooler days, gobs of rain and I literally snuggle under a heated blanket even here to keep the seizures away!)

We are weary of the constant battles we’ve been facing.  We won’t give up…  instead, we will rest our weary souls in Him!

Please pray for these things:

Complete healing in my body.

No more pain in my stomach

No more migraines

Sleep Sleep Sleep

Lucy has been sick with a bad cough for almost 3 weeks now

We need housing

We need our home in Bend to be rented out ASAP

Cory will be leaving us here to go home and pack up our personal items so the house can be rented out right away

Wisdom for health and housing decisions

And… a huge prayer request for our family who just lost my cousin to a snowmobile accident.  He left huge holes in the hearts of his wife Amy, his brother Jeff, his mom Candy, and all of us who loved him soooooo much!  Cole loved Jesus with his whole heart and is out of pain here on this earth now… but the sting left to those who loved him here is immense.

We are praising God for:

The ability to be here at all

No seizures since arriving

Less stress about how each night will end

and that His mercies are new each morning… His faithfulness is so GREAT!

We love you all and are soooo thankful for your continued love, support and prayers!

Keep on Living IT Out!

XO

Sincerely, Dani

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Lucy is loving surfing and getting pretty good at it too!

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Grey is still our happy little one! You’d think all three of them were born here as they just seem to fit right into everyday life!

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Hayden is quite the surfer these days! He pretty much lives for the day after school and housework is done… he’s addicted and is so fun to watch!

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