In a repeat of last year when my I am Obamacare image went viral, this month’s recent re-surge in posting and popularity has once again caused my modest blog to go over my monthly bandwidth allotment.

Overnight, my blog was shut down due to exceeding it’s limit. Obviously it’s back up for now but this is the result of having a small, personal blog ( Read more... )

On October 5, 2011, at age 34, I went in for my Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy. It was unbelievably hard. Recovery was painful and slow. But, I was so thankful that I was able to get it in the first place.

With a pre-existing condition and no health insurance coverage from my then day-job, no company would insure me. After months of struggle and ( Read more... )

Been busy behind the scenes this past week working on restocking the shop with previously sold out pieces as well as a few new ones.

I’m getting very close to my 1,000th sale milestone in my etsy shop. An amazing accomplishment given that I started it as a part-time hobby and turned it into my full-time job after my hysterectomy October 2011. I’m ( Read more... )

April 5th marks one and a half years or 18 months post op from my hysterectomy. And I felt it was a good time to do an in-depth status and update again. So many people find my blog specifically because of the healing progress entries I wrote. I’ve received many comments and emails thanking me for the information they provide. It feels good to be ( Read more... )

Here we are and it’s already March. And I realize my intentions to actually sit down and write out a blog entry in my oh-so-neglected blog last month not only never came to pass, but I didn’t even come close. Handful of photo posts….and that’s about it. Sheesh. Just seems like I’ve been so busy with so many other things since late last year that ( Read more... )

JUST FINISHED PAYING OFF MY DOCTOR FOR MY SURGERY!!!

I’m so excited. They were so awesome and they worked with me and let me pay it every month and I just talked to the billing lady, Donna, and made my last payment. I now have a $0 balance and I’ve successfully paid them back for all the wonderful work they did for me.

I can’t tell you how good it ( Read more... )

Good news is that we got Love’s car fixed Friday. We’re back to a two car household and the horrible, destructive whine of the compressor grinding itself to bits is no more.

The bad news is that it cost more then we planned: $789.54

I had been planning on $700 so the extra hundred hurts. A lot. We’re going to need to figure out how to drum up some ( Read more... )

Today is my one year anniversary of my Hysterectomy. It’s almost as surreal to say that as it was last year when it was happening. In so many ways, it’s hard to believe it’s been a year already. But in just as many ways, it feels like so much longer ago.

I have never been through anything harder. And yet, in a lot of ways, I have to say I surprised ( Read more... )

Glamour magazine has been emailing me today to get some additional information and quotes. I wrote out two huge paragraphs but couldn’t help by summing it all up in one final sentence:

And as a woman, I can’t imagine supporting a candidate or a party that so openly hates, represses, attacks, belittles and insults my intelligence, my rights and ( Read more... )

Exactly one year ago today, I was doing my surgery pre-op. I had my final ultrasound with my gyno, registered at the hospital, was given my surgical date and time, met with the anesthesiologist and even had my living will/medical directive notarized.

I was two days away from my surgery and these were the final hurdles to jump before I’d be truly ( Read more... )