What Legacy? Chapter 3

If you’re finding this for the first time and would like to catch up I’ve started putting chapter numbers in the titles to make it easier to follow.

We last left off in November 2025 where I was brainstorming what to do with my life so I could have something to leave my children. My oldest was struggling to make ends meet and I was really struggling committing to this new position coming up so we spoke about resurrecting the stall cleaning business we used to have but making it a legitimate business this time and the facility I moved over to went from my employer to my first client for The Stall Cleaners, LLC and thus my legacy was born. We were completely booked to capacity in a week, the messages were coming so fast I couldn’t keep up. We were turning people away immediately the demand for us in particular was amazing. I could truly feel all the time and energy I’d put into this community finally paying off.

Meanwhile, my chest has this burning sensation and every so often I have an electric sting in between my two lumps and the worry is growing. I can’t tell if I have heartburn or stuff is spreading in there, the pain is annoyingly uncomfortable. I realize I am getting scared now.

I scheduled a full body thermography scan in January 2026 to start the first steps to finding out if I have what I’m afraid I have. We were able to look at some of the pictures when it was over and my whole body had red all over it. Red from my nose to my bellybutton, it was terrifying because I’d already been doing my own research. The result would take a week to receive so while I waited I looked up ways to treat inflammation and started a new batch of research.

When my results came I didn’t have a doctor to read them for me yet so I tackled it myself and it was a touch intimidating and scary. It appeared the inflammation started in my sinuses and my teeth and went down through my body from there. I spent time googling words and phrases and identifying body parts and came to the conclusion that my body is very angry. It’s full of inflammation and it’s no wonder I don’t feel all that great. Could this really all be from this tooth I thought I broke the previous summer?

I immediately started on an anti inflammatory diet which helped calm the burning I was having in my abdomen but I was now having neck pain, shoulder pain and back pain more tightness than pain. It was getting so bad in February I made several posts looking for a functional medicine doctor so we could get to the bottom of all this burning I was having outside of my breasts.

Our business is booming and we can’t keep up with the demand but I felt good about the decision to launch this endeavor. It probably deserves its own book at this point.

I finally found a doctor and thus began the week from hell. To be continued…..

PS. I am not a writer, I love to write but the more I do the more I see how limited I am with my writing skills and lack of fancy words. My writing is very basic and elementary which reminds me how much guidance I failed to receive as a child and how it’s affected my entire life. I hope to get to all that and how everything is connected while I hurriedly write to get the readers caught up to current day and I hope by the time I’m done with this book my life has changed drastically.