Coming off of a great weekend
What a FULL great weekend! This past weekend started off with 3 of my teammates coming to my place to watch our Fall Summit Convention online together. We all were supposed to be in Arizona with our larger team but the company decided do it virtually again this year. Covid needs to go away already! Anyways, some of my girls came up Friday night, we watched the trainings, went out to dinner, they stayed the night on air mattresses in the living room. Then Saturday Mandy put us through a kettlebell workout, we watched the morning session, then went for our walk (some of them are doing #75hard with me) then finished up the sessions and they headed home Saturday night. I learned so much more about the company we are partnered with, especially around the products that we have. I knew they were fantastic and I have been using some them for 19 months now, but to learn about some that I haven’t even tried yet. Lets just say I am pumped. My hair, skin and body are going to continue to really thank me!
Then there was World Ostomy Day! It is very rare that World Ostomy Day and Ostomy Awareness Day fall on the exact same day/date. I have been planning for this for a few months. I launched the World Ostomy Day episode on the podcast, I participated in the UOAA virtual 5K, the Hollister video with the kids, my girl Jearlean made a video featuring some of us and what was really great was to see the amount of people on social media sharing their stories and speaking out! I am so proud of everyone and so happy to be a part of this community! We are working really hard to break the stigma around being in an ostomy and it is working. Ostomies give people a second chance in life and we should make sure to honor that!
The weekend ended with family dinner night with my parents, most of the kids and our grandchildren. We celebrated my daughters birthday and my moms birthday. It was the perfect ending to a great weekend.
I am and will forever be grateful for being alive. I am grateful my Dr. yelled at me and told me that an ostomy would be a last resort but if he had to it would be to save my life. Imagine all the things I would have missed out on….