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\"PhotoI am Tammy Craik.<\/p>\n

I have always been a very active individual.\u00a0 <\/span>As a child I spent a lot of time outside. We climbed trees, rode bikes, went hiking and always found new adventures outside.<\/span><\/p>\n

Growing up, I had a few trips to the hospital.\u00a0 When I was about 5, I got a terrible infection in my left leg. I fell off a swing and got a large sliver in my knee. I pulled it out and didn’t tell my parents. After about a week I convinced my Mom to have a doctor look at my leg.\u00a0 My leg was so badly infected that we were told if it went untreated it could lead to amputation. I spent the\u00a0 next few days in the hospital hooked up to an IV.<\/span><\/p>\n

When I was 10, I had another trip to the hospital.\u00a0 I fell over a railing from the second floor of our house and landed on a tile floor. I stopped breathing for a period of time and was unconscious for around 30 minutes. I only spent 1 night in the hospital and I was miraculously released the following day with no reported injuries.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our family moved around a lot. When I was 11 we moved to Vancouver Island. We no longer had a forest to explore, but I joined every sport I could.\u00a0 <\/span>I was not the most athletic player, but I was enthusiastic and enjoyed being part of a team. I also joined student council committees in high school and university.\u00a0 <\/span>I have always loved working on computers and as I was working toward my Bachelor of Arts and Education degrees at Malaspina (now VIU). I also took a Distance Education program through BCIT to learn Web Design. While attending school, I met the love of my life.<\/span><\/p>\n

After receiving my degrees in 2003, I got engaged.\u00a0 I taught grades 9-12 at an Independent School in Vancouver. I worked 12 hour days, teaching from 9-3 and tutoring from 3:30-9:00. I also started my own web design business which I did in my spare time. <\/span><\/p>\n

I was married in 2004 and in October 2005 my son was born. I stopped teaching but I continued web design and tutored a few hours a week. I was an active parent and signed up for many programs.\u00a0 <\/span>In 2007 my daughter was born and shortly after, I gave up tutoring. We bought a house in 2009 with a nice yard next to a school. In 2010 my youngest son was born and my oldest started Kindergarten. <\/span><\/p>\n

In 2010, I joined the School PAC Executive.\u00a0 Over the next 5 years\u00a0I took on various roles on the Executive, including Co-President, Treasurer, Secretary, and SPC Exec Rep.\u00a0 I also continued with my web design, juggled my kids various extra curricular activities, and still found time to enjoy biking, hiking, geocaching, and being outside. I have always welcomed neighbourhood kids at my house and I enjoy the chaos. <\/span><\/p>\n

In 2012, my Mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. After a long 18 months of chemo and radiation treatment she was finally cancer free.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2013, we not only celebrated my Mom’s health, but my sister was expecting her fist son and my brother was engaged.\u00a0We went on a family Caribbean cruise and a Disney vacation.\u00a0\u00a0This is when I learned the importance of family vacations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In October, we built a treehouse in an old tree in our backyard for our kids to enjoy the outdoors that way I did as a child. In 2014, I began regular workouts on our xbox and I also started walking every Wednesday with a friend. I started to get a bit more tired than usual but I figured it was because I was doing more physical activity.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have a great network of family and friends.\u00a0 We help each other out and listen to each other’s frustrations. I have always believed that the best way to deal with a problem is to talk about it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On April 29, 2015, I began to experience unexplainable symptoms that eventually\u00a0landed me back in the hospital for 10 days.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am Tammy Craik. I have always been a very active individual.\u00a0 As a child I spent a lot of time outside. We climbed trees, rode bikes, went hiking and always found new adventures outside. Growing up, I had a few trips to the hospital.\u00a0 When I was about 5, I got a terrible infection […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"1080","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tcraik.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tcraik.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tcraik.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tcraik.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tcraik.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tcraik.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/tcraik.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/488"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tcraik.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tcraik.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}