03/27/2021
Hello Welcome to my page! Thank you so much for stopping by, my name is Ashley and I can promise you the last thing I ever thought I’d do is make a page about clothing let alone be selling clothes. Like everyone else 2020 had a different plan in mind for me and this is the story of how ASGS came to be.
2020 had a been a crazy year, I’m a distract manager for a cell phone company and the Covid pandemic had really taken a toll on my team and I but we kept a solid spot at the top of the region and I absolutely love my team, one of the highlights of the year was when they all got to come together as far as 3 hours away to throw pie in my face for hitting all of their goals! I also met my incredibly amazing and handsome boyfriend( that is all debatable but he’s helping me write this so I said I’d put it in). All things considered my life was going amazing until July hit.
In July I started getting painful lumps in my head that would swell up to the size of half dollars and puss and they were super itchy I also developed a rash on my face and minor swelling but nothing major. It was painful enough I went to the doctor and they thought it might be a spider bite but weren’t sure. they drained the puss and that was it. That was the beginning of a 8 month nightmare. I was in and out of the doctors and Emergency room. To go along with all my other symptoms I also started losing clumps of hair and my body started swelling, I also had horrible aches and pains I couldn’t eat my face and eyes were swelling horribly almost to the point of swelling shut and I was dealing with fatigue like I’ve never dealt with. The 3 Scooter’s a day I was used to( I am Distract Manager after all.... I also have a slight addiction..).. all jokes aside it was incredibly scary my mind was always foggy and I couldn’t do my job right. Work is my life and my team is my family. I absolutely love them. Not being able to do my job to the best of my ability was killing me but if there’s one thing my boyfriend can tell you for certain(Besides Duke and Nebraska being the best sports teams) it’s I’m stubborn and I would not take time off. After 8 months of testing I finally got a doctor who took the time to listen to me and help me figure out what was wrong. I was finally diagnosed with Lupus. Lupus is autoimmune disease which means no one knows why it happens and there isn’t a cure even though there is some medicine to help ,I’ll deal with it forever.
The beating lupus took on body was just as bad on my mental health. My mind always felt foggy and I felt like I couldn’t remember anything, my body was always drained but I wouldn’t stop working. I absolutely love my team and they are without a doubt the best at what they do. I was in and out of the hospital during the week of annual event( Thanksgiving and Christmas/New years) and my team kept working hard and having fun and stayed #1 in the region!
My team was killing it! But I was killing myself trying to do what normally used to be no problem, I had an amazing support system my team, my boyfriend, my family..but I’m me. I’m the strong little girl who was raised by a single mom and her grandparents, the girl who graduated early so she could leave her hometown to chase her dreams, the girl who switched careers with no prior sales experience and worked her way up to an $80,000 year job with no college degree. I don’t need help. But one night it became to much during a particularly bad Lupus flair up I couldn’t breathe or talk I was in so much pain and my medicine was reacting with my body so I was getting sick everywhere, my mind was so foggy and cloudy I couldn’t even give the EMTs my name.my boyfriend had to call the ambulance and have me rushed to the ER. I was admitted to the hospital and finally had to admit defeat. The ER scare was enough for me to finally cave in and go on LOA
However I found out that my company didn’t offer short term disability and in my state I wasn’t eligible for unemployment because there was no job separation I was incredibly overwhelmed and stressed and stress is one of the biggest factors for Lupus flair ups, that’s when I decided to come up with ASGS.
ASGS means Always Stay Grateful and Strong.
It was a way for me to be able to have fun and make money but also still get to do what I love. Help people. I absolutely love sales and the people I got to meet from doing sales, I also love helping people and getting to meet people. But this is much less taxing on my body and less stressful on my mind. Lupus is bigger than the physical toll it takes on a person. It’s mentally and physically exhausting for me. Some days are better than others some days I kinda feel like my old self again and then some days it takes everything I have to get out of bed and try and take a bath. I’ve always been independent and because of that I always thought I was strong, but one of the things lupus has taught is that,I am strong. But I’m strong because I can ask for help now, I’m strong because some days the best I can do is shower and a load of laundry and that’s okay, I’m strong because I was brave enough to step away from the job I love and team I love to take care of myself. I’m strong because I’m badass. I’m strong because even though I have Lupus, lupus doesn’t have me and I can promise you that lupus will end up having a much harder time living with me than I will with it. I’m also strong because of my amazing support system my mom, my stepdad and my 2 brothers, my amazing work family who surprised me my last official day before LOA and all one leader made it from as far as 3 hours away and my amazing boyfriend( I guess he is alright 😂) and you! I’m thankful for you taking the time to read all this and taking the time to visit my page. Anyway that’s how ASGS came to be! Thank you so much for stopping by please feel free to check out all our links and items if you see something you like feel free to message an offer! Please like and share the page to! Thank you so much and remember....
Don’t Ever Quit, Just ASGS
Always Stay Grateful and Strong 🙂
Thanks, Ashley
