Showering After A Mastectomy Archives - The Shower Shirt

The Year of Blogging: Completed

I was hoping before this final Blog, we could have communicated that we had attained Medicare coverage, thus all commercial insurers would also be supporting reimbursement for shower coverings for breast cancer patients. Unfortunately, we can’t announce that outcome,...

Proactive Versus Reactive

  Since The SHOWER SHIRT Co. was finally out of debt, it was time to focus on proactive strategy, research and development. It felt I had essentially lived the last four years in reactive mode, versus a proactive mind set. After introducing the Shower Shirt...

Out of Debt

By spring of 2014, The SHOWER SHIRT Co. was out of debt. We were able to pay off the entire 2,000 units of product inventory (remember, our manufacturer unexpectedly increased our minimum order from 675 to 2,000), and legal fees for attaining our patent. We knew from...

Disney “Go For The Greens” Speaking Engagement

  The fall of 2013, I was asked to speak at an event held at Walt Disney World titled “Go for the Greens,” a business development conference for women entrepreneurs. Sponsored by Disney and UPS, Go for the Greens is an organization including representatives from...

Business As Usual And A Special Introduction

It was summer 2013. As the next few months rolled on after being awarded our patent, we continued to have many television guest spots at both FOX and CBS affiliate stations. We visited FOX in Nashville, Memphis and Orlando, as well as the CBS affiliate in both Orlando...

Do We Have a Patent or Not?

  It was January 2013, and only a couple of months after returning from the Republican National Convention in Tampa.  I received a call from my Washington DC patent attorney, Chris Brody, stating my patent application had also been denied by the US Patent &...