Starting at the Beginning

     I wasn't sure how to start off this blog; yes it's a blog about Avon, yes it's a blog about beauty products, yes it's a blog about a growing business, but it's so much more than that. It is also a blog about me, a single mother who up until about a year ago was leading a pretty seemingly normal life. Tomorrow I will be marking an anniversary; not a typical, feel good anniversary, but the anniversary of the day I had a brain tumor removed in a five hour surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. And so ended my typical normal life and a new one began. It all started with the head aches, at first I thought it was just a sinus headache, to the doctor I went, and was given an antibiotic to treat it. I should have started feeling better, but I wasn't. Back to the doctor, more meds, still no improvement. To the doctor again, only this time it was an MRI that was scheduled. On January 10, 2013 I went to my local hospital for the MRI and before I left, a doctor came to see me and that's when he gave me the news: something showed up on the MRI, we are calling your doctor now. In that instant my whole life changed. I went from a working full time, tae kwon do taking, active community member single mom to a hospital patient with a brain tumor. I barely remember much of that day, only that I called my mom and tried to sound calm, and refused to be put in a wheel chair. And of course there were my daughters, and the random thoughts that  I was dying. It is all a blur now, and here I am, a year later, still alive, gone through radiation and finishing up with chemo. I am still not a 100%, which is why I am on disability, and now that my ex is no longer paying child support (another story for another time) I decided to pick up Avon again. I love the products and I love people. My mission now is to make every woman, no matter what she is going through in life, to feel beautiful and confident. Avon can help me do that, and it can also help you. I will share more of my story in another blog, but for now, let me tell you about Mega Effects Mascara!!! It's Avon's newest product and I can't wait to try it myself, the brush is nothing like you have ever seen and I have put a YouTube video here for you to see how it works!!! Enjoy!!!!! Mega Eeffects Mascara 

Until next time, Dena Avon Independent Sales Rep