Melody's story
It was the best decision I could have made at the time. I have no regrets. Really I don’t. I was 22, two months away from graduating from college. Not ready to have a baby. For most of my college career I was on the birth control pill because, well, I didn’t want to get pregnant. I also used a condom at times (to be honest, not all the time) for extra protection against disease. Well, in these last two months before graduation I ran into an old flame. He was hotter than ever! Chad was fun, smart and cool, but Chad also had just gotten out of some trouble. He was in jail for the past 6 months for trying to sell marijuana (lots of weed!). He was getting his life back together. Well, one night, we met up, went out, had many, many drinks and talked about the good old days. Following the Dead, checking bands out, talking late at night about things we hoped to do. Well, later that night, one thing led to another and our passions took over and we had sex. I knew I wasn’t on the pill, butfor some reason I thought, oh, it couldn’t happen to me, it's just one time. Well… that was that, until about 4 weeks later. I started to get bloated, my boobs were getting big and things weren’t smelling just right. In fact, I felt like vomiting about two different times each day. It couldn’t be? It was one time! ONE TIME!! Isn’t that what they say, it only takes once? I wasn’t about to waste $18 on a pregnancy test when I clearly wasn’t pregnant. Then after another few days, I had to find out. I went to the local clinic and sure enough – PREGNANT! The people at the clinic were very nice. They went over all my options, explained everything very thoroughly. I was only 5 weeks, so I had to wait one more week to get the abortion. It was the only decision I wanted to make. I wasn't ready to have a baby in so many different ways. I had general anesthetic (which I was very happy about!) so I didn't feel anything during the operation. I was nauseous after and vomited, but pretty much felt ok. Just crampy for a few days, but I took all the medicine they gave me and was fine to do stuff the next day! I had no complications at all. I am now married with 2 beautiful children. I am so happy I had the legal choice to make my decision back when I was 22. I know I wouldn't be the same person today and my children are so lucky that I am where I am now. And I would have made the same decision if I had to do it all over again. "Melody" |
