Posted on 07/31/2004 5:18:29 PM PDT by Keyes2000mt
I put my co-pay and a small donation on my credit card. It's a lot less than I thought I'd have to pay. I'm relieved, since I have student fees and rent coming up. More waiting. I get very hungry. I wish I had eaten breakfast before coming. I look over the pamphlet and discover NuvaRing. It sounds great and so much more convenient than the Pill. My regular doctor had not mentioned it. I had no idea there was something so easy available. I'm excited to get started with that right away.
Three hours after first arriving, it's finally time. I'm led to a bathroom and told to empty my bladder and put a pad in my underwear. I'm then led to another room where I strip from the waist down and lie on a table. I realize that I'm not even nervous. I feel a little awkward lying on a table with no pants, but nothing too bad. The doctor comes in, introduces himself, and shakes my hand. A woman stands next to me and starts some small talk. It gets my mind off what's going on. I barely feel a thing at first. The woman next to me warns I'll soon hear the vaccuum turn on and feel some cramping. It was still a bit surprising to feel cramps so suddenly. It is uncomfortable, but not painful. More small talk. She's a cat person but her apartment won't allow them. I sympathize.
Finally, I hear the machine shut off, and the woman next to me says it is hopefully over. The doctor confirms. All the important parts have been removed. I'm done.
The doctor reminds me of the importance of scheduling a follow-up exam before leaving the room. As soon as I sit up, the cramps get a lot better. I get dressed and go into the recovery room. I'm still hungry, and a little cold, but am feeling pretty good. The cramps aren't that bad, and I'm relieved to have the procedure done.
I tell the woman I have decided on the NuvaRing. We discuss that and go over my aftercare. 7 days of antibiotics. No sex, tampons, or lifting over twenty pounds for two weeks. Nothing I can't handle. I'm reminded once more to make an appointment for a follow-up exam in three to four weeks. I get a small brown bag with papers describing everything I was told about, a bottle of antibiotics, and my first NuvaRing. Another woman checks my blood pressure and temperature again. My blood pressure has come back down.
I'm hungry, and I want a nap, but I'm feeling good about my decision, and relieved that it's over. My roommate takes me for lunch and drops me off at home before heading into work. I'm hardly bleeding at all.
I talk to my mom on the phone a few hours later. I lie and say that nothing's new in my life. I know she wouldn't approve, but I also know she's not ready to be a grandmother yet.
Feb. 7: After a few days of just light spotting, it's starting to feel like a period flow. I haven't used pads in over ten years. It feels strange.
I make the appointment for my follow-up exam. It will be on February 25, exactly three weeks after the procedure. They'll make sure there were no complications, and I'll get the chance to buy more NuvaRings.
Walking home from the store, I hear a baby wailing through an apartment window on my street. I chuckle to myself and think how happy I am that won't be my window later this year.
To simply say "I'm not sorry" or "I don't regret it" is not strong enough. Having an abortion was the best decision I ever made. I'm glad I did it, and I'm 100% confident that I made the right choice for myself, my lover, and our situation. It's not right for everyone, but it was right for me, and I'll do everything in my power to make sure every woman has the opportunity to decide if it is right for her without legislation making that decision for her.
Any pregnancy will change your life, whether you have the baby or not. It should be up to us how we let it change us.
(Excerpt) Read more at imnotsorry.net ...
What a great post. Thanks,
An unsolicited bit of advice from a parent of three; LESS TV IS BETTER, LESS TV IS BETTER, LEAST AMOUNT OF TV IS GREAT. The more less the better; beleive me I'm right. Spend the tv time interacting with your kid; it will reap rewards in the future. You are missing a lifetime of memories if you are letting your 27 mo be entertained by the tube. My take on it and a suggestion to ya'll.
This person does not deserve to be a mother. . . ever.
If sincerely and extemporaneously written? It is obvious that "me" is the only consideration given at all.
God have mercy on our souls.
"I wouldn't be surprised to find out that this was written by someone in the abortion industry,"
Possible, I suppose, but I can tell you I have had first hand face-to-face conversations with women who had just this attitude--at first.
If it persists, she will gradually enter a post-traumatic decline ending with a poverty of relationships and emotional attachment, absence of joy and spontaneity, internal desolation, probable substance abuse and/or promiscuity.
She may try to have a child later, hoping to replace the loss, if successful. It won't work, and the later child, if she lets it live, will be at elevated risk of being physically abused, possibly killed, by the mother.
She may spend her entire life this way, angry and bitter and full of blame for others, and never look at herself honestly again. Tragic, really.
And it you, as adoptive parents, who are the true heroes. Thankyou for sharing your heartwarming story - it made wading through the rest of this article worthwhile.
And it is you, as adoptive parents, who are the true heroes. Thankyou for sharing your heartwarming story - it made wading through the rest of this article worthwhile.
Some of our politicians are this way.
Walking home from the store, I hear a baby wailing through an apartment window on my street. I chuckle to myself and think how happy I am that won't be my window later this year."
This can't be real.
Nobody could be so callous.
It would be monstrous
Hillary is!
I was 19 years old. While in the stirrups I felt cold and sharp sticks of pain. We need to dilate you, I heard. Then I felt the worst pain I've ever felt in my life. Thankfully I passed out. When I came to, I was disoriented ---- I didn't know where I was. I was in a small medical examination room. I was having an abortion.
And today, I'm sterile. I'll never have a baby.
You have a problem with contraception?
Thanks Atchafalaya.
Why not get a tubal ligation and not ever reproduce?
stands2reason.Tears for you .
To know there are people like that, scares me.
O.C. - Old Cracker,These are real women in pain are you a woman.You know what I hate more than anything is when an old man tells a young woman about her body.I am a female and know the pain of these posters .Who are you ..
Every so often, opponents of capital punishment make the feeble argument that executing murderers actually makes society more dangerous by making us all more callous regarding the death of a human being.
If the story of "Ada" is typical of women who have abortions without apology, it's clear where the real callousness lies, and what caused it.
No sweat; that's why she (and soon her vengeful family) are here...
Thank you for caring. :-)
What the devil is Biden talking about? He wasn't in prime time when he said this, was he? Has anyone gotten any clarifications from Biden or his staff?
Maybe some radical leftist British politician said it years ago, and he's back in the plagiarizing business again.
....she sounds really compassionate........it's an awful thing that she doesn't have a place for cats, but an unborn child is about to be made homeless, as he/ she is about to be sucked out of the womb.
....it really is incredible; liberals seem to have a heart of bottomless evil at times..........many times.
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