Help me take my dad home to Florida one last time

Kirsten Davies Start Date: Sep 6, 2022 - End Date: Oct 20, 2022
  • Springhill, FL, United States of America
  • Treasure Island, FL, United States of America
  • Odessa, FL, United States of America

My Travel Story

by: Kirsten Davies Start Date: Sep 6, 2022 - End Date: Oct 20, 2022
My name is Kirsten! I'm 26 and currently live in Texas. I've lived here with my boyfriend for about exactly a year now. The circumstances leading up to why we ended up here were not all that great. We were homeless living out of a truck in Utah in a small town with no opportunity, and thankfully a friend offered us both a place to live and my boyfriend a decent job. And fortunately my grandmother lived close by the area, So we took the opportunity. Things were really looking up for us! We even drove all the way back out to Utah to pick up my dad and bring him out here. Around that time I found out I was pregnant, and we couldn't have been happier. Things started to go downhill again when my mom got horrible news of her stage 4 metastatic breast cancer caused from the BRCA2 gene. Which also means me and every one of my siblings have a high chance of it and have to get genetic testing/counseling. About a week after that I started to have a threatened miscarriage that ended in a full on miscarriage. I was devastated and actually haven't mentally recovered. Only 2 months after that I started doing a little better. My dad started a great job at Amazon. Everything was Normal again. And one Saturday my dad came over to my apartment to spend some time with us like he normally would, but he was saying how tired he was all day. He ended up leaving at about 5 pm. Then called me later that night but I was busy so I told him I'd call him back and never did. The next day my grandmother was calling me to tell me he had passed away. I blamed myself for the longest time and still have so much guilt. My dad raised me in Spring Hill Florida. In a house that he inherited from his father when he passed away. We lost that house in 2004 due to Hurricane Charley. We Lost everything. All childhood photos, family photos, furniture etc. That house was later fixed and sold. And when my dad was here every year or so I'd look it up on Google maps and we'd just check it out and make sure it's still kicking! And now my mother is going down to Florida in October to visit all of our friends and family probably for the last time. And it's my dream to be able to go as well and take a part if my dads ashes along with me to go see our old house one last time. It's been a dream of mine and somehow I need to make this dream come true.

  • Springhill, FL, United States of America
  • Treasure Island, FL, United States of America
  • Odessa, FL, United States of America

Updates

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  • Emergency

    Everything is trying to break me down at this point. 8 days behind on rent and no money. Got an eviction notice at my door.

  • Emergency

    Everything is trying to break me down at this point. 8 days behind on rent and no money. Got an eviction notice at my door.