Memorable Messages of the Past: It’s a Cult!
Here’s my favorite memorable message called: “It’s a cult!” It started out as one post from one member and then many more members had to reply and pile on their funny stories of “HysterSisters” as a cult!
Some background: I’m a 39-year-old single woman who has never had children and never been married. Blah. I do have a wonder dog named Alomar who is the world’s smartest, cutest, and best pet. Most of my close friends have not dealt with hysterectomies, so until I found this site, I felt very alone in the decision-making process. My TAH BSO is scheduled for Saturday, March 3rd.
For about two weeks now, I’ve been telling everyone I know about this great web site and how I am a pre-punctured princess, a lady in waiting, a member of the royal family just waiting for my trip to the castle to make it official.
In addition, I gave my doctor a copy of the information sheet about the hystersisters, and he promised to check it out and make copies for other ladies contemplating a crown.
Some out there just don’t understand. The jealous ones.
“A pre-punctured princess?” they scoff. “What castle?” they question. And it’s a sisterhood that they simply don’t get. My closest friend told me after I went on for a little while (no more than an hour or so) about my “lady in waiting” status that I was taking all this just a little too seriously. I think not. She went so far as to suggest that the hystersisters might be a cult, but that’s just her envy rearing its ugly head again.
My friend thinks that just because I’ve purchased a tiara, a purple robe for the hospital, and I refer to myself in the third person, “her majesty thinks . . .” that I’ve gone too far. Nonsense, I tell her. But once I get home from the hospital and onto my throne, she’d better learn to kneel.
Read the entire thread here: It’s a Cult!
I remember this one and have loved it from the start too. It has always made me sad when some failed to see the value to be gained in putting some fun into an experience that is so “less than fun”. The entire concept is therapeutic-good, clean fun that lifts the heart and puts a smile on my face still to this day. This lady “got it” and was made the better for it.
It was a great mind that thought this one up.
I’ll be blunt – I nearly ran screaming when I saw the “princess” and the “castle” stuff. That said, I kept looking around and mostly found very good information here. And the women in my hysterectomy group have been great. It’s especially helpful for those of us who are more isolated. I live way out in the country and a lot of my friends live in other parts of the world. One friend who did have a hysterectomy about 15 years ago came out to visit and it was helpful to have her perspective.
I have only been a Hystersister for a few day’s now, and to even consider this a CULT!? Seriously? I have already gotten alot out the stories and the informationals than what I have been to gain for the past several months from Google. I appreciate this site, and Thank God it was created. I am scared stiff, still, but hopefully as September 11, 2012 approaches, I will be more looking toward having this over with, tired of so much pain everyday!
Thank you Ladies for sharing your stories.