Temporary Closure Notice

Many of my customers may recall I was in a car accident back in September of last year. I have been in physical therapy since then. I started off doing chiro, but it didn't help, I've been getting PT since then.

PT has helped my neck, but not my shoulder. As time went by, the pain got worse. Some days I can't work, type, drive and most nights I can't sleep. It's just become unbearable. I couldn't figure out why I could be in so much pain. So my dr ordered an MRI and I went.

I'm not going to lie, I was scared once I started to go into the machine. It was an open MRI, supposedly....

As he rolled me into it, I yelled wait and flared my arms. The tech stopped the machine and asked if I was ok. I said to him I thought this was an OPEN MRI. He said it is, look to your left and look to your right, their open. Um, that's not open when the machine is about 3 inches away from your face I told him. I really felt a surge of panic creep in. I didn't think I could do it. I began to tell the tech I don't think I could do this. He said yes you can. Your strong, I know you are. Just close your eyes. So I did AND I turned my head to the left so that as I was breathing I didn't feel like something was on my face crashing down on me.

Next thing I heard was a series of annoying noises, loud, jerking type noises. I fought to keep my eyes closed. You know that feeling of I have to open my eyes and see what's going on. My eyes began to twitch. But I held strong. I knew if I opened them I'd begin to panic.

I thought I have to get my mind off of these noises, so I began to count. Yep, count.

I counted to 60 over and over and over again. About 30 minutes later the noises stopped. By this time I was actually beginning to dose off.

And they moved me out. The tech came in and said "see, that wasn't so bad was it?'. It actually wasn't.

So 2 weeks later I get my results back and they say I have a torn rotator cuff and severe inflammation. I need surgery. I went home and pondered about it for 3 days, before deciding I would go ahead with it. I searched online and asked my dr more info and it's the only thing that will help with the pain.

The surgery involves an outpatient procedure in which he makes a 2" incision into my shoulder, they scrape off the bone spurs and then take a look to see how bad it is. From there they determine if I need to have my muscles stitched back to the bone or screwed.

Recovery takes about two months.

But don't worry, dr says I can drive, type (left handed since I'm a righty) and do other little things after about a week.

I have decided to close up for 2-4 weeks to allow myself to recover fully. Back in October I had an emergency appendectomy, the day after I came home I went right back to work and I regret it to this day.

Either I or my daughter (since shes now out of school!) will post on my behalf here and through my newsletters about my progress and when we will reopen. It will definitely be sometime in July as we will also have some very exciting news to share this summer with you all.

In the meantime, I will not be accepting any new or existing wholesale orders until after we reopen.

My surgery is scheduled for June 27th. We should be back open by July 21st. Again, this will all depend on how quickly I am recovering.

I look forward to living a pain free life once again.

Which brings me to a little rant. Some know and some do not, the guy that hit me that lovely Friday morning, did NOT have insurance nor a drivers license. Has not responded to repeat notices from my attorney and apparently is getting away without having to take responsibility for his actions. BTW, I was the second person he hit within a month. So here I have to suffer physically, emotionally and in every other way possible for someone that is irresponsible.

Make sure you have uninsured motorist coverage, this has saved me financially in heaps. I wish it could have saved me from bodily injury as well.

With that note, I am off to bed to nurse my shoulder with a nice hot heating pad. I am counting down the days until I can finally recover from all of this.

Because we know you cannot live without knowing when we will reopen and have our luscious body products available for you, we are offering a stock up sale of 20% off any order of $50.00 or more. we're also adding free gifts with every order, just mention SURGERY in the comments section. This sale does not apply to out of stock items, back ordered items or wholesale accounts.

I will keep you all posted!!

~*~Johanna~*~