Day Family Fundraiser | Live Music & Silent Auction
Event Details:
Silent Auction 10:00 - 11:30p
Live Music - 10:00p - 12:00a featuring
Will Hartz and Solow Vella
3 Pounds of kalo
Current Participants & Donors:
Down The Hatch, Breakwall Shave Ice Co., Mala Ocean Tavern, Kohola Brewing Company, Kimo’s Maui, Esters Fair Prospect, Leilani’s, Duke's Beach House , Honu Oceanside, Jessica Stackpoole, Mahina, Hi Spice, Slight Detour, Cool Cats Cafe, Lahaina Lifestyle, Punakea Palms, Maui Gourmet Food, Lani Lace Lingerie, Pohaikealoha Kaikala Music, Da Playground, David Fincher, Tito’s Vodka, Herradura Tequila, Michael David Winery, UFO Parasail, Sea Maui, Ali’i Maui Outrigger Canoes, & More!
All Day Err Day Fundraiser:
We invite you to join us for the Day Family Fundraiser & Silent Auction, Saturday, January 29, 2022 at Māla Ocean Tavern. Emali Day is the wife to Dennis and the mother of their children Kona, Hina, & Asa. They are a close & humble family living on Maui. Emali is passionate about living a healthy lifestyle, and right before her 40th birthday she was diagnosed with breast cancer. As you can imagine, the news was devastating for the young family. Emali Day is a stay at home mother, who homeschools their children, lives by simple principles and high morals, and leads with love above all. As a community we are coming together to support Emali and her family.
After hearing of her diagnosis, processing, and diligently exploring her options, Emali realized she needed to listen to her intuition and follow the path for her in this journey. Emali saw several local specialists and was given a plan of action. Unfortunately, with Maui's limited resources she was offered a plan she wasn’t fully comfortable with. The offer; a 5-year “survival plan”, a plan to quickly get major surgery, and medication for the next 5-10 years. As eager as she was to get better and continue living life, there was no guarantee, and she has a lot more life to live.
Researching more options, with less invasive methods, the Day’s found facilities on the mainland that offer integrative healing protocols that aim for the root cause of imbalances in the body. The goal being to reverse all the disease in the body while also building immunity for the long haul. There are a number of natural treatments given, with IPT (a low dose chemotherapy delivered through insulin), being one that seems the direction to begin. IPT aims to attack the cancer directly without killing healthy cells at the same time. This is a 4 Week treatment which takes place at EuroMed in Arizona. that has been healing people for many years using proven integrative medical techniques. The idea is to get complete healing of her body so that she may live a long and healthy life watching her children and grandchildren grow. Insurance will not cover most, if any, of the treatment cost. Combined with travel expenses and loss of wages, it seems impossible to get there. But with the help of many loved ones and strangers, she has been able to go to EuroMed and the healing process on her own terms. All of Emali’s cancer markers are steadily dropping and the tumor is shrinking. But considering it took years to get to this place of dis-ease, her healing journey is not over yet.
The Day Family Fundraiser will raise funds to assist in covering medical costs, travel expenses, food, and loss of wages. Mahalo nui loa for taking time to read about Emali Day and her family, and supporting them all during her cancer treatment and healing journey.
Show your support with the Day Family Hat with the beloved motto of the Day Family “All Day Err Day”. Hats Available in the MALA SHOP!
Mahalo nui loa for being here. Please read Emali’s story from her husband's perspective:
Aloha,
My name is Dennis Day and I'm fundraising for my wife, Emali's, healing journey with breast cancer.
A few months ago Emali noticed a lump in her breast. She thought it might be a clogged duct as she'd just finished nursing our youngest child, Asa. It seemed normal because she had similar lumps after our other children, Kona and Hina, finished nursing. Many doctor and specialist appointments later, it was discovered she in fact had stage 2 breast cancer.
Since I've known Emali, she's always been a strong and independent woman. She was the first person in my life that was health conscious and explained it to me in lay terms. As far as I can remember she's lived a natural, tree-hugger type of lifestyle. When we were first dating she was seeking help from a naturopathic doctor concerning gut issues she had. So began the candida healing journey. After being diagnosed with candida there was only one solution that aligned with Emali and that was to heal with the power of the mind and eating a fully clean diet. For well over a year Em slowly healed herself from this disease. I've never witnessed anyone take control over their own health and mind as she did. It was hard and took tremendous amounts of discipline but she did it every day without complaint. I thought, "what an inspiration." It was at that moment I knew we would be together for the rest of our lives.
Years later we began having children and, yet again, I had the chance to witness the amazing power this woman possesses. Watching her have home-births for all 3 of our children put me in awe. She has always had this natural way of doing things that I never heard of prior to meeting her. We watch what we feed our kids; call us "mean parents" but there has always been very little sugar, almost no candy or soda, and home cooked meals. We even watch the type of toothpaste and deodorant we use to make sure there's no "bad stuff." We believe this is the right thing to do for our family and do them daily.
Em has made it a point to live our lives and not boast, brag or preach to others about what we do. She never wanted anyone to feel bad about themselves based on hearing how we live. This is just our life. Simple.
Her humility and grace has always been something I've admired but never talked about because, again, she just isn't like that.
We try to figure things out on our own in life, not because we don't need anything from anyone but rather to not burden anyone. As I write this I'm trying to ask for help in such a way that would make Emali proud and not put-off. With all the background about the natural living, there could only be one way for Em to take on cancer and that is as natural as possible. Truly trying to heal her body to prevent this thing from ever coming back.
Emali saw several local specialists and was given a plan of action. Unfortunately, with Maui's limited resources she wasn't offered a plan she felt fully comfortable with. They offer a 5-year survival plan and she has a lot more life to live. After a lot of research, we have found facilities on the mainland that offer integrative healing protocols that aim for the root cause of all imbalances in the body. This way, she can work to reverse all the disease in the body while also building her immunity for the long haul. There are a number of natural treatments given but also IPT (a low dose chemotherapy delivered through insulin). IPT aims to attack the cancer directly without killing her healthy cells at the same time. This is a 4 week treatment plan that has not been easy for her to accept. Not only does she homeschool our children but this is the longest time she will be away from the family.
The funds we hope to raise will cover medical costs, travel expenses, food, and possible loss of wages. Thoughts of loving kindness and positivity are always hoped for; at this daunting moment in her life, we ask for whatever you see fit to give.
Mahalo nui loa.
Dennis Day
Ua ola loko i ke aloha - love gives life within.