Today I want to get a little personal and tell you more about what has driven me to launch my own business. To help you see the big picture I need to take you back a few years, which has been an emotional roller coaster for me. I will try to make a long story short!
A few years ago I was progressively loosing weight and having terrible pains in my stomach. I would just dismiss it as being under too much stress. At that time, I was working full time in a hospital on swing shifts while putting myself through nursing school. Well, it finally grabbed my attention one day at work when I collapsed in pain. One of the doctors on the unit came over and checked me out, immediately sending me down for testing. We found that I had two golf ball sized tumors on my left ovary. We did surgery to remove them and I have been cancer free since! Praise God!!
When I went for my two week check up I was informed that I no longer had my left ovary and the cells had spread to other places, making my chances of getting pregnant 2%. At the time it was not as devastating to me because I was single and it wasn't in my plans yet. I figured I would cross that bridge when it came time.
Zoom ahead a few years I am married to the most amazing man I have ever known, next to my father and grandfather, and it was time to cross that bridge. We decided that we wanted to start trying right away. Not expecting anything to happen with my low chances, two months later I found out I was pregnant. At 11 weeks we lost the baby. I was told I just didn't produce enough hormones to carry the child and we decided to start the medication to replace what I couldn't make. Now any woman that has taken hormone replacement I tip my hat to you! I was in first class on the crazy train and we were going full steam ahead. Looking back I do not understand how my husband was still willing to keep me around. After six months of that we did a few more tests and decided to try fertility treatments. We got pregnant two more times, both resulting in miscarriages.
After that I couldn't do it anymore. I couldn't keep taking these medications that made me not myself, I didn't want to be poked anymore, I hated that everything was timed and no romance, and most of all I hated what everyone had to say. I couldn't be around people anymore because everyone had an opinion on what I needed to do or what I was doing wrong. Some of the "favorite" ones were..."you are thinking about it too much, if you stop thinking about it it will happen. That's what happened with my niece." And "you aren't praying enough and God is just punishing you for it". Then there was "You need to do IVF because I know someone who knows someone that went through the same thing as you and now they have 5 kids". I know they were all trying to help, but at the time that is not what I needed to help me get better.
I went to my final appointment and was told it was time to start thinking of other options. When I came home to have the talk with my husband, we immediately came to the conclusion that we wanted to adopt. We talked about what country we wanted, how many to have, and everything adoption related. We did our research on agencies and made the announcement. We are currently in the "fundraising" stage of the process. And on a side note I love how people think that adopting is this easy thing to do. I have a different view when people say "Oh you can just adopt", these people clearly have no idea how much money and scrutiny goes with the process.
I became an Independent Consultant for Young Living Essential Oils to help make some money to put in our adoption fund. While going natural with our health we wanted to continue that with everything. I started making all of our laundry detergent and salves and creams and the whole nine yards. Then friends wanted to buy some of it and I wanted to start selling it to make more in the adoption fund. I formed an LLC and am having my Launch Party September 13, 2014!
I know all of this is in Gods hands and I have said from the beginning that if it is meant to be and is our true path, everything will come together so easily without any hiccups or bumps in the road. My journey creating my business, essentially you. has been easy and bump free. Sometimes it makes me nervous how smooth this ride is going, but that just means this is all meant to be. So 100% of our profit from essentially you. will be going into our adoption fund to help us bring home Penelope Grace and Joseph Daniel!
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