Well after having a spinal fusion done on my lower back, I thought my pain would go away. I know it wouldn't completely go away but I thought it wouldn't be so bad. But I started having a lot of pain in my right hip. Here I thought I wouldn't have to take pain meds anymore, but I was still hurting. So after a year of injections, and burning the nerves in my hip, I was going to be having another back surgery. This time on my hip. On February 21st, I had another surgery. I was out of work for three months the last surgery, this time it looked like I was going to be out for about 8 weeks. Now, this is how the birds come into the picture. Right after the surgery, I was laying in my hospital bed and my husband was reading his texts. He told me a friend of his was selling his Quaker parrot. I made the comment about how I always wanted a parrot. So my sweet husband, who by the way is not an animal person, got me the Quaker. He loves to make me happy. The quaker's name is Harley and he is the cutest. Harley is 2 and was very shy and scared when we got him. The bad thing was that I was home all day by myself with him and he bonded with just me. He didn't like my husband at all. But Joe thought he was so cool and wanted his own. So we got Doc, a green cheek conure, who was 8 weeks old. Doc loves everyone. As my medical leave started counting down, I dreaded going back to work. I was scared the pain was going to come back. I wanted to be able to stand and sit when I wanted to and I couldn't do that at work. So my husband was trying to figure out ways for me to stay home. Now don't get me wrong, I liked my job. I didn't like being in pain. So onto our parrot business.