Donna Ryan:  

Life I've been married for the past twelve years now. Third time... Have two wonderful children from first husband their ages are 38 and 40. They're catching up to me!! I'm a grandma (Nonna) of four granddaughters. I have three large dogs, five cats and 1 koi. (I had 5 but the raccoons ate the other 4.... UGH!!) I love life....love animals (I'd love to go to Africa) and have a crazy sense of humor!! Don't ever want to grow up!! Though I can have a serious side!! I'm very passionate about how I feel about life! I believe in the Lord Jesus and am pretty much a Conservative!!! I had open heart surgery on June 18Th 2012 to replace a bicuspid aortic valve and had the ascending aorta strengthened with teflon (or something like it). Wow, it was scary being told that at 55 without the surgery I had 6 mo. to 2 years to live! With the new valve I should have 20 good years ahead (18 and counting Hahahaha!) of me before anything else goes wrong!! Besides hard of hearing, poor eye sight, failing memory, bad back and creaking knees I'm just a spry as I ever was...... Ok maybe I'm ...Expand for more