BethCooks4U
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I hope you all don't mind my sharing but I feel many of you have become friends. I want to share some things and request prayer. I hope it's not TMI.
My business has been going very well even with the new career plan. I am still a director and sales have been great! The fall will be awesome - I already have 12 shows on my September calendar and am signing a new recruit tonight. I can't complain. August is done except for a catalog show. I won't make my minimum $2500 this month but I am over $1250 so I am happy with what I do have considering everything else that's going on in my life. I feel very blessed that I have a job that I can schedule around my life and don't have to take a leave for health issues. I may not have the business I want for a while but I can keep it going even through difficult times.
I'll give you a little background: Last September I had an arthroscopy of my knee and then in December I had foot surgery (two major problems resolved with that!). The knee kept getting worse and it was determined last April that I needed a total knee replacement. I scheduled it for August 10 so that I could get through National Conference and vacation to see my kids, schedule some shows in August and end of September - I scheduled a 6 week break. During the pre-physical with my regular doctor I mentioned some spotting I had had a few months before (post-menopause). He sent me to a gyn who did a biopsy. It came back as complex hyperplasia with atypia (pre-cancer). They did a D&C and I learned on Monday that I have endometrial cancer. I am having a Hysterectomy on Tuesday (18th). Most of the time they get it all with that but we don't know how long it has been there.
Please add me to your prayers. Cancer is a scary word and until the path reports come back it'll be hard to not worry. The numbers are in my favor if we caught it early thankfully! And then a second major surgery looms ahead (knee). Lots to put my body through in a short time but the knee has gotten much worse in the last few months even since surgery was determined to be needed - I have to be able to walk and function. Hopefully all will go well with this issue and then I'll be able to have that knee fixed! I was thinking end of September but more realistically December for that surgery. The knee is constantly in pain and even wakes me several times at night - I should have had it done last spring.
I do have a very supportive, caring husband and friends. My kids all live a long distance but we are close (thank heaven for phone & internet). My team is there to help if I need to pass off any shows and to go with me to shows (to lift, etc.) and my director is the best. I am blessed.
I know that my issues are minor compared to what others are going through and I don't want to come off as whining but I do believe in the power of prayer and I know that many of you do too. Thanks.
My business has been going very well even with the new career plan. I am still a director and sales have been great! The fall will be awesome - I already have 12 shows on my September calendar and am signing a new recruit tonight. I can't complain. August is done except for a catalog show. I won't make my minimum $2500 this month but I am over $1250 so I am happy with what I do have considering everything else that's going on in my life. I feel very blessed that I have a job that I can schedule around my life and don't have to take a leave for health issues. I may not have the business I want for a while but I can keep it going even through difficult times.
I'll give you a little background: Last September I had an arthroscopy of my knee and then in December I had foot surgery (two major problems resolved with that!). The knee kept getting worse and it was determined last April that I needed a total knee replacement. I scheduled it for August 10 so that I could get through National Conference and vacation to see my kids, schedule some shows in August and end of September - I scheduled a 6 week break. During the pre-physical with my regular doctor I mentioned some spotting I had had a few months before (post-menopause). He sent me to a gyn who did a biopsy. It came back as complex hyperplasia with atypia (pre-cancer). They did a D&C and I learned on Monday that I have endometrial cancer. I am having a Hysterectomy on Tuesday (18th). Most of the time they get it all with that but we don't know how long it has been there.
Please add me to your prayers. Cancer is a scary word and until the path reports come back it'll be hard to not worry. The numbers are in my favor if we caught it early thankfully! And then a second major surgery looms ahead (knee). Lots to put my body through in a short time but the knee has gotten much worse in the last few months even since surgery was determined to be needed - I have to be able to walk and function. Hopefully all will go well with this issue and then I'll be able to have that knee fixed! I was thinking end of September but more realistically December for that surgery. The knee is constantly in pain and even wakes me several times at night - I should have had it done last spring.
I do have a very supportive, caring husband and friends. My kids all live a long distance but we are close (thank heaven for phone & internet). My team is there to help if I need to pass off any shows and to go with me to shows (to lift, etc.) and my director is the best. I am blessed.
I know that my issues are minor compared to what others are going through and I don't want to come off as whining but I do believe in the power of prayer and I know that many of you do too. Thanks.
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