Karen Hellier

@Kouponkaren (5501)

United States

Joined myLot 4 years ago

I work from home as a freelance writer and eBay seller. I live in the mountains and love nature. I'm happily married and have a rescue dog.

Discussions (372)

Karen Hellier's Discussions

Health Update: They Found Something Else

Karen Hellier @Kouponkaren (5501) • United States 4 Jun

Thank you for all the kind words on my last post which was also a health update. I mentioned I had to go to the hospital for three more CT scans and unfortunately one of those scans showed I have a renal artery aneurysm....

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I am Finally Feeling Healthy Again

Karen Hellier @Kouponkaren (5501) • United States 1 May 24

Well, the first 4 months of 2024 did not go well for me health-wise since I had a heart attack in January and the CT scan on my neck in February showed a thyroid nodule which ended up being early-stage thyroid cancer. I am feeling...

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I Am Home from the Hospital

Karen Hellier @Kouponkaren (5501) • United States 4 Apr 24

What a long day yesterday was. We left the house at 12:30 pm and had to check in to the hospital at 1:30. My surgery was at 3:30, and they were done at about 6:00 pm. The doctor decided since it was so late in the day and they...

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More Health Issues for Me

Karen Hellier @Kouponkaren (5501) • United States 1 Apr 24

I posted here on January 27th that I had had a major health setback on January 5th. It was a heart attack. I had such anxiety about it happening again that I couldn't talk or even write about it. It was a very unusual type of...

heart attack

thyroid cancer

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Selling Photos Online

Karen Hellier @Kouponkaren (5501) • United States 16 Feb 24

I'm still here...just lurking for now. I have been very busy visiting doctors but I am trying to find new ways to make money from home so I have less stress in my life. I am looking for the best website to sell my photos online....

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I Haven't Posted in A While

Karen Hellier @Kouponkaren (5501) • United States 27 Jan 24

I haven't posted in a while because on January 5th I had a major health setback that was SO horrible and has brought me so much anxiety that I can't even talk about it. At some point, I will do a post on it, but for right now I...

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I Didn't Make My eBay Goal in 2023

Karen Hellier @Kouponkaren (5501) • United States 4 Jan 24

Last year I sold $4,600 gross on eBay. This year I had a goal of $6.000 gross sales. Unfortunately, I didn't make it, nor did I even make what I made last year, coming in somewhere between $4,200 - $4,300. I was very...

ebay

ebay store

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Making My Mom's Cut-Out Christmas Cookies

Karen Hellier @Kouponkaren (5501) • United States 19 Dec 23

I am about to go make my mom's famous Christmas cut-out cookies. Every year at Christmas she used to make them and my brother and I got to decorate them with colored sugar. When I was in high school I was given the Christmas...

christmas cookies

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I Went on a Cruise!

Karen Hellier @Kouponkaren (5501) • United States 28 Nov 23

Sorry, I haven't been around in a while but my husband and I took 2 of his adult children and their spouses on a 7 day Caribbean cruise. We left out of Galveston, Texas, on the Regal Princess ship, and stopped in Costa Maya...

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I'm So Sad About Matthew Perry

Karen Hellier @Kouponkaren (5501) • United States 2 Nov 23

It's the oddest thing but I am so sad about the death of Matthew Perry, aka Chandler Bing on the TV show Friends. I didn't even know the man but my daughter loved to watch Friends when she was in high school and she often watched...

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I am Thinking About Starting a YouTube Channel

Karen Hellier @Kouponkaren (5501) • United States 17 Oct 23

I want to start a YouTube channel but I hate being on camera so I am dragging my feet about it. It would be about ways to save money/be thrifty. I have about 10 - 15 ideas for the first few videos which would be about saving...

youtube channel

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What I'm Reading this Week: Cancer Schmancer

Karen Hellier @Kouponkaren (5501) • United States 16 Oct 23

The book Cancer Shmancer was written by Fran Drescher. You may know her from the TV show The Nanny. She had uterine cancer and had surgery in the year 2000. She is fine now and I am really enjoying the book because she brings her...

cancer schmancer

fran drescher

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Suzanne Somers Died Today and My Heart is Broken

Karen Hellier @Kouponkaren (5501) • United States 15 Oct 23

I just read that Suzanne Somers died today, one day shy of her 77th birthday. That is heartbreaking to me for 2 reasons: 1) Because she died one day shy of her birthday and I am sure she would loved to have made it to another...

suzanne somers

breast cancer

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A Writing Website Called HireWriters

Karen Hellier @Kouponkaren (5501) • United States 14 Oct 23

I was just reading some articles on HubPages and came across a review of a writing site that is new to me. It's called HireWriters. Apparently, it is similar to Textbroker but better, and you can get tips. Have you ever heard of...

hirewriters

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Radio Frequency Ablation for Arthritis in the Knees

Karen Hellier @Kouponkaren (5501) • United States 10 Oct 23

My husband has bone-on-bone arthritis in both knees. He is almost 90 and doesn't want to do surgery if he can help it. The surgeon agreed with him that he thinks trying anything that is as non-invasive as surgery is worth a...

radio frequency ablation

rfa

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To Dye or Not to Dye

Karen Hellier @Kouponkaren (5501) • United States 9 Oct 23

I have dark brown hair and I used to dye it with a Clairol 6-week hair dye that washes out. Then I got breast cancer a few years back and decided to only use natural products on my body so I switched to natural henna dye. It was...

gray hair

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The Ultrasound Says No Cancer!

Karen Hellier @Kouponkaren (5501) • United States 7 Oct 23

Hurray! I went in for my appointment with my breast cancer surgeon and they did the ultrasound and they said there wasn't anything there which means no breast cancer. Hurray!!! I am so relieved and my husband and I went out to...

breast cancer

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Now They Want to Do an Ultrasound

Karen Hellier @Kouponkaren (5501) • United States 5 Oct 23

I have my annual visit with my breast cancer surgeon tomorrow. It is coming on the heels of my mammogram and then the callback mammogram. So that's a good thing, except I just got an email that my breast cancer surgeon wants to do...

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We Had a Nice Day Today

Karen Hellier @Kouponkaren (5501) • United States 4 Oct 23

As my husband ages he likes me to be around him more and more. Today my schedule included a lot of errands so I asked him if he and Jenny our dog wanted to come with me. He said yes so I got to have him chauffuer me...

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I Had That Follow Up Mammogram Today

Karen Hellier @Kouponkaren (5501) • United States 3 Oct 23

I mentioned back a while ago that I had to have a callback mammogram and after having had breast cancer in 2019, that was pretty scary. So I had my follow-up mammogram today. The technician took 4 images and then told me to go...

mammogram

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