10/15/2026
DAY 7 POST-OP of a HYSTERECTOMY & STAGE 2 ENDO EXCISION • and do you think a lady bug invasion is a good sign?
Here’s part 1 of 4 of my rant… AND IT’S ALL FINALLY MAKING SENSE!! Follow along…
I’ve never been afraid to show people how hard I work on social media. AND, I love making people laugh 🩷💜
But I was crippling in fear for people to see how much I was hurting… I’M DAY 7 POST OP from a hysterectomy and endometriosis excision surgery.
But get this… and I need to listen to myself here… 😮💨behind every woman-owned small business… is a woman. So I get it, my page has turned into a little video diary of my struggles, and less about the pretty, curated image we craft for you all to see so you can support my businesses. But behind all this is someone real, and it’s not always pretty.
A real woman. With a body, a family, struggles, fears, responsibilities, and a whole real life happening behind the scenes. My entire womanhood came into question for myself with this surgery. I certainly have grieved in this process.
But I’m recognizing my story is proof that woman fight battles you know absolutely nothing about.
For over a year, (it gets complicated for 4.5+ years…) that’s a different story). I’ve been trying to navigate chronic pain, endometriosis, adenomyosis, and PMDD, while still trying to show up as a mother, a wife, an artist, an employer, and a business owner. I wanted to be better so bad. I know that’s why I’ve been rushing getting better…
Naturally… while I’m recovering, I’ll absolutely be sharing more of what’s happening back home at Woodlands in Ketchikan, what my amazing team is up to, and all the things we’re working on, because we are so cute!! We have a website too! It makes me happy 💜🩷
But I’m also going to keep talking about this experience for a little while longer…
I just know how lonely this has been. I know how much I hid because of what it could mean, people seeing me struggle, or seeing a version of me that wasn’t the strong, capable woman they’d come to know, the terrified me, and this surgery scared me too, a fear I didn’t know I had!