Dayna  Anne Clark, born 23^rd May 1997 to 28^th December 2008 (aged 11).

 Dayna was a clever, conscientious and beautiful  looking little girl.. She was popular with the old and the young.

Dayna was very active.  She had never been ill in 11 years.  She loved dancing (especially ballet and did it from the age of 3), badminton, gymnastics (since the age of 3), played violin and attended the church Rainbows, Brownies and then  the Guides.  She also did very well in school and wanted to be a Vet when she was older, asking our Vet hospital at age 10 if she could work for them for experience.

In  February 2008,  Dayna passed her Royal Academy of Dance Ballet grade 2 with distinction (very difficult to achieve) and also her grade 6 in gymnastics.  She was dedicated to them.

Dayna loved to travel and visited at least 11 different countries using their languages , their currencies and their cuisines.  The last holiday she went on was April 2008 to see  Paris and the Mona Lisa which she had just studied at school and of course Disneyland Paris.  This was a last minute holiday, the shortest and the most memorable one.  Still unsure why we even booked it!

Dayna turned 11 on May 23^rd.  She had started feeling  ‘unwell’  in the March and the doctor’s said it was viral and then that she was growing up.  She had lots of tests done and we were assured that the headaches and sickness in the morning was  'nothing sinister'.  On the evening of 26^th May, Dayna collapsed at Guides.  The emergency Doc recommended a head  scan the following day in Stirling Royal Infirmary.  We did this and the cat scan showed  a ‘small mass’ at the base of the brain.  The next day we were to go to Sick Kids Hospital in Edinburgh for a more detailed MRI scan.

What we were told was to change all of our lives forever.  Dayna had a DIFFUSE PONTINE GLIOMA (inoperable brainstem tumour).  The shock will never be shaken off.  Our brave little 11 year old daughter was so brave and grown-up about it.  She had to undergo having a radiotherapy face mask made and 6 weeks intensive radiotherapy and chemotherapy.  This was to affect Dayna in many ways, mostly physical.  She was quickly on crutches and even quicker in a wheelchair losing the movement in her right hand side.   She was the bravest most inspirational person I have ever known.  She had bad weeks and kicked herself back to life to do what she had to do in her precious time with us.   We lost Dayna 3 days after Christmas 2008.  We miss our angel so much.