My Roller Coaster Intro Life Story

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My Roller Coaster Intro Life Story

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Hello everyone!!! My name is Amanda Marie Cortez-Gamez AKA LuckyDucky0908 and this is my first blog ever since high school. Some people in the DubClub and Splinterlands community that my husband and myself are a part of know me as Puditang's wife, the Salt Queen, and the Bit Lord in some twitch channels lol :D So I decided to make a little blog about myself and introduce myself by putting me at the center for once on a personal level. LOL

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All About Me

So… a little bit about my life. Like I mentioned before, my name is Amanda and I'm 34 years old and live in San Antonio, TX with my husband Oscar AKA Puditang and we have lived here in San Antonio for past 6 1/2 years now. We have been married for 7 years strong and now we have a beautiful baby boy named Nicolas Dante Gamez :D My nickname Ducky has been around for a long time(16 years to be exact). The reason I was called Ducky was 2 reasons. One reason was that I love to collect everything ducks. (My kitchen is covered in rubber ducks BTW 😄) The second reason was a coworker of mine when I was 18 years old named me Ducky cause I was just as hyper as the character from the movie The Land Before Time (yup yup yup) and ever since, it stuck to me like glue everywhere I went. I currently work as a Medical Office Coordinator for a Maternal Fetal Medicine Office and Medical Assistant at a Pediatric Specialist Clinic where we help patients that are children that have cancer and are in remission, children with gastro problems, and children needing either brain, spinal, or heart surgeries. Working in Pediatrics has been a huge part of my life and been doing it for now over 9 years and most probably won’t be able to stop anytime soon. 😍

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Oscar and I

Now on how both Oscar and I met. We met through mutual friends and we ended up going to a bar that both of us would go to often called AJ's sports bar in Laredo, TX (our hometown). Funny thing about this time, I was only single for only 2 months after being broken up from a relationship of 7 1/2 years and Oscar was only single 1 month (which I had no idea about that at the time). He never planned to meet up with me at all due to being great friends with my ex at the time (which was awkward since my ex and Oscar worked at the same job together too) 😕 But after that one night of chatting, we were inseparable, never miss a day together, and eventually started dating quickly. Like honestly, If you ever heard of love at first sight, our relationship was exactly that. After dating only 2 months, he proposed to me in a swimming pool and I just had to say YES!!!! HE was the ONE for me. ❤️

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Puppies

After our marriage on August 9, 2014, the following year, we decided to move to San Antonio from Laredo to better our lives, to grow ourselves as a whole together, and hopefully grow our family in the future. On a personal level, I had multiple issues with trying to have a baby. I had PCOS which meant both of my ovaries were cover in a cysts which prevented me from getting pregnant. These were really hard times for me personally and emotionally cause honestly, all I ever wanted was a kid to call my own and to have that child with the best person in the world to me. So, while I was waiting for our own baby, Oscar and I decided to get our first pup Bruce on July 2, 2017 and shortly after got our second pup Clark on March 21, 2018. (And yes they are named after Batman and Superman, YES IM A NERD, FIGHT ME, 😆) They have been taking up our lives as our puppy children for a while and they have just been there through my worst during the times of trying to have my own child so I love them so much. They have been so spoiled to the point of sleeping on our King size bed together and every month, they end up getting a Bark Box in the mail. We make it a traditional thing to open it up together which makes it an awesome experience every time since the themes of the boxes are pretty cool. 😄

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Nicolas

When we finally decided to go through trials of IVF treatments to try to have our own child, we had done multiple other trials beforehand that unfortunately didn’t go in our favor. This was the hardest part of my life cause during the times of all these IUIs and other ways of trying to have a baby, a lot of our friends around us were getting pregnant at the same time, which honestly, I was extremely happy for them but inside I felt like a failure, like my thoughts of… will I ever become a mother one day were running through my mind all the time.😞 So, after a break for a few months of trying, we did the big move and decided to go IVF. We ended up having 11 embryos in the end and placed one embryo a month later and well…..IT FINALLY WORKED!!!! 😁One of the happiest days of our lives was being told on the phone that we were gonna be parents FINALLY!!!!! So, after 9 months of ups and downs through the pregnancy and the hormones, Nicolas Dante Gamez (our expensive Axie) was born on June 17, 2021!!!! 😆 So you guys know, Nico’s middle name Dante, Oscar named him after his favorite game character’s name on Devil May Cry. (GAMER NERDS, I know 🤣) Now I could say our family is finally complete, but you guys never know…. Could there be another in the future….??? Who knows, but for now……We will enjoy every moment with Nico we can since he is our miracle baby!!!!

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This concludes my personal life in a nutshell, next post I’ll chat about my gaming life, how we got our streaming started, and our journey throughout multiple platforms but for now MUCH LOVE and the motto we follow since we have been together is, FRIENDS ARE THE FAMILY YOU CHOOSE!!! Thanks guys!!! ❤️

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Wow that’s the blog intros we love to see.
Dear it’s so nice to meet you and I have to say as a dog mum and a kids mum , girlll you diddd goooodd!! Hahah the picture where your little prince is laughing is so cute. We have 4 kids and two dogs but I am not a big gamer. Maybe I can enroll the kids, but time is the factor here I need more hours in a day!

But welcome to hive great you joined.
I will leave you with the welcome message and hope to see you in discord when you have questions. And maybe we as staff can learn from you two about gaming.
Blog soon

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Yes You did it! You joined hive , the blogging platform. So Hi there , it’s nice to meet you and I say welcome.
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I have a great time reading this, so happy to know more of your story with puditang, I am glad I know you guys, you got a big heart and you are helping a lot of people. Really nice to know more about you guys personally <3

And late congratulations to your Baby/Prince Nico, I just knew the whole story <3

Keep Spreading Positivity. Thanks for being a part of the #nosleepgang

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This was such a beautiful post OMG I'm in tears reading your touching story. I couldn't even imagine what it would be like to go through something like that. Trying so hard for something you want so bad and feeling you will never get it is a horrible feeling I know that feeling but in a different way I felt like a failure for a long time until I met this community.

Honestly, this was so awesome to read about though your dogs are absolute cuties I love em love em love em 😍😍 and Prince Nico is adorable so happy for you and Oscar honestly you two are such amazing people. Love the energy and vibes on your guys' stream it is amazing and infectious. So I happy I got to read this and thank you so much for sharing your amazing story.

Much Love
Drabs

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What a great intro post. Deserves a 100% upvote!
I would love to ask @solymi to leave some PIZZA and LUV
Also @wil.metcalfe and @nathanmars should read this incredible post.
Welcome to the hive family.

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Hello @luckyducky0908! This is @indayclara from @ocd (Original Content Decentralized) team. We saw that you already posted your first blog here in Hive! Congratulations and welcome!

I enjoyed reading your introduction blog! I think you will definitely like the communities Hive Pets and Motherhood. It's also best to subscribe to other Communities you like and share your blogs there to have a wider range of audience. Or you can check out the Communities Incubation Program.If you are looking for tips and information as a Hive newbie, click here: Newbie guide. If you have questions, you can hop into Discord server and we'll gladly answer your questions.

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Awwww luckyducky I loved your intro post! Thank you so much for sharing it. I never went through IVF, but my mom did, and I know how hard it was on her. She and my dad tried for ten years to have kids before adopting. I had no trouble getting pregnant, but I did have trouble staying pregnant. I have more babies in heaven than here on Earth with me. I know its not the same thing you went through, I just wanted to commiserate and let you know that you aren't alone! Much love to you and Puditang, and your absolutely adorable, sweet, precious little baby! <3

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What an amazing post!
I am so glad, that your dream came true and I am sure, that you will be an amazing mother and Oscar will be an awesome father! Nico is super cute and it is a joy to see him on the streams!
So glad that you both (or all three) are part of the community! Wish you all the best in the games, but even more in real life! Enjoy the time with Nico. It is so amazing to see kids grow up, but they do grow up so fast.
It is really amazing to have a story and person behind the name. Thank you, Amanda!

Cheers, @andy-plays

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Wonderful intro post. Congrats on having a cute baby. He's got his first "look" already judging by that image in the red tractor kit.

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Amazing story you guys! <3 I'm so proud to know people like you and Pudi who are just a ridiculous amount of energy wherever you go, whether streaming or in other people's streams! Keep it up!

I know many people who have stories regarding IVF - but I don't think that this is the appropriate place to talk it over. I do expect that when I get to visit TX we can chat and hangout, and Nico and my daughter Morgan could have a play date! 😂

Have some !PIZZA much love guys! ❤️

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What a great intro Maam Lucky <3 Such an inspiration to the community <3

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You are both great Splinterlands Twitch streamers! I can't wait to catch another one of your Splinterlands streams! ~@clove71

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Awwww thanks for taking the time to write out your beautiful story! Ducky from Land Before Time! I love it so much! That's the best movie ever, I cry every time haha. You are a hyper one hehe. You and Puditang are the greatest couple, I love y'all so much and baby Prince Niko is a future star in the making! The photos of him are way too cute <3 If I could I would give this post a 1 million % upvote hehe

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