#dumbuterus

[dani-two-point-oh]

Yelling at my uterus to work so I can stop doing keto

I want noodles so bad. And dumplings

[mabgravesart]

#mabsdrawlloweenclub Day 20: Ghost. This is a personal one. I have a tiny little group of core characters that usually tell my stories in my sketchbook. Each one came to me unbidden, at a time in my life when I was really emotionally struggling. Each one represents something deeply important in my life. This little ones name is Monday. She came to me when my Endometriosis reaches stage 4 and became inoperable. Monday is a little brat and was always being dreadful in my sketchbooks. She saved my spirit and made me laugh so many times when I was struggling to draw through the pain. I had a radical hysterectomy at the beginning of the year and as I was dealing with the grief in the aftermath of losing my fight, one of my deepest fears was that if the surgery was successful and the Endometriosis inside me died, that it would kill Monday too. She was my Endo. After my surgery and the initial recovery I waited and waited. Monday was gone. All my other little characters were still there playing on my pages, but Monday never came. Then one day, 8 months after my surgery when I was dealing with yet another painful setback, MONDAY appeared. I literally danced around my studio and cried. I was so afraid I had lost her! But she was just pouting...being a brat. She’s still super pissed that my dumb uterus (her favorite thing to abuse) slipped her grasp. When I started thinking about the #ghost prompt today, I decided I wanted to do a Dumb Uterus ghost in celebration of his demise (yeah, my uterus was a dude. A big, dumb dude.) and as I was drawing him Monday decided she was just going to invade my paper and glare at him for a while... 🙄😂👻 #endometriosisawareness #hystersister #dumbuterus #mabgraves

[mabgravesart]

In December we discovered I needed to get an urgent radical hysterectomy. This wasn't really in my plan, I only had a few short weeks to prepare myself for this and I was a complete mess. I couldn't stop crying and I couldn't stop thinking of the profound loss this surgery meant for me. The most infuriating thing about it was; that's not me. I'm a pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps and make lemonade kinda girl and I was SO frustrated that I couldn't pull myself out of it. I didn't want to talk. I didn't want to draw. All I could do was be deeply, mournfully sad. Then a couple days before the surgery I had an idea. I opened up my sketchbook and drew this picture of my stupid, worthless, no-good, rotten, awful, bastardy DUMB UTERUS. It had been a curse on my life (stage 4 Endometriosis had destroyed it) for years and I needed to look it in it's dumb face and tell it so. I wrote a farewell get-outta-my-life note to it one the page. All the sudden; I was out of tears. I found a way to harness my grief, and make it funny, and that's exactly what I needed to be brave. When I went to the hospital my sketchbook (of course) went with me and as family, friends, nurses and surgeons came in, I asked each one of them to write a mean "get lost!" note to that dumb guy. This page is precious to me, and in my #sickgirlsclub advocacy journey I realized there may be other girls out there who need to find a way to let out their uterus-grief. So I made this print (available now in my Etsy shop) and it is made to be defaced. I want girls to get out all the things they've ever wanted to say to this bully in their body. It helped me make it to the other side and I hope it will help someone else too. A portion of the proceeds of this piece will be going to the Endometriosis Research fund 💕 #sickgirlssticktogether #mabgraves #dumbuterus #etsy

[mabgravesart]

Mab drew an illustration the "dumb uterus she sent packing" in her sketchbook and over the past few days she's had all her nurses, doctors, and visitors sign and write mean things to it. #gottalove #thatsenseofhumor #dumbuterus #endometriosisawareness

[sandandrain]

@Regrann from @mabgraves - In December we discovered I needed to get an urgent radical hysterectomy. This wasn't really in my plan, I only had a few short weeks to prepare myself for this and I was a complete mess. I couldn't stop crying and I couldn't stop thinking of the profound loss this surgery meant for me. The most infuriating thing about it was; that's not me. I'm a pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps and make lemonade kinda girl and I was SO frustrated that I couldn't pull myself out of it. I didn't want to talk. I didn't want to draw. All I could do was be deeply, mournfully sad. Then a couple days before the surgery I had an idea. I opened up my sketchbook and drew this picture of my stupid, worthless, no-good, rotten, awful, bastardy DUMB UTERUS. It had been a curse on my life (stage 4 Endometriosis had destroyed it) for years and I needed to look it in it's dumb face and tell it so. I wrote a farewell get-outta-my-life note to it one the page. All the sudden; I was out of tears. I found a way to harness my grief, and make it funny, and that's exactly what I needed to be brave. When I went to the hospital my sketchbook (of course) went with me and as family, friends, nurses and surgeons came in, I asked each one of them to write a mean "get lost!" note to that dumb guy. This page is precious to me, and in my #sickgirlsclub advocacy journey I realized there may be other girls out there who need to find a way to let out their uterus-grief. So I made this print (available now in my Etsy shop) and it is made to be defaced. I want girls to get out all the things they've ever wanted to say to this bully in their body. It helped me make it to the other side and I hope it will help someone else too. A portion of the proceeds of this piece will be going to the Endometriosis Research fund 💕 #sickgirlssticktogether #mabgraves #dumbuterus #etsy