February 2012
310 posts
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Brief interlude: Look at how we've grown. THANK...
I’ve finally had a chance to crunch some numbers and look at media hits, and wanted to share some info about this amazing community that you’ve helped develop in the last few days.
We launched on Wednesday morning, and since then — 72 hours later — we’ve gotten:
About 260 story submissions. That’s about 4 stories an hour, on average. They mostly came in large...
Planned Parenthood International
Years ago, I married a Canadian man, and moved from the US to Canada with him. I knew I wouldn’t have health insurance, so before I lost my insurance (quit my job) I made sure to get a prescription for birth control, (we weren’t ready to be parents.) That Rx would last me the first year or so of marriage. After that, I wasn’t sure what I’d do. I got my Rx filled at a...
Between Jobs and Needing a Pap Smear
I had just graduated with my degree, and I had a job lined up that would begin three months after graduation. However, I had no insurance coverage until that new job began and no income. I purchased the cheapest insurance in case of a major accident, but it would not cover my annual exam or most non-life threatening events.
I had had two bouts of pre-cervical cancer because of an HPV infection...
Firsts
I was out of college a couple years before I had my first pap smear, first check up. And it was at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Kenosha, Wisconsin. My best friend, who was studying to be a nurse, volunteered there and I went in when she working, and she convinced me to get checked out. I was so nervous, but the nurses were wonderful. Down to earth, gentle, and so patient with a nervous ninny...
Just off the top of my head, here--
It would be difficult to name all the ways Planned Parenthood has helped me or saved my life. No, I’ve never had an abortion—because I never had to. Because I was given excellent education and free birth control. By Planned Parenthood.
I am 30 years old, a college-educated woman from an upper class family. And Planned Parenthood is the only doctor’s office I have been in my...
I was 20 and a scholarship student at a small liberal arts college. My boyfriend and I had been having sex for a few months and using condoms, but one month my period was late. I FREAKED OUT! I knew that a pregnancy would mean I would be forced to drop out of college and lose my scholarship. Without the scholarship, there was no way I could finish college.
Back then you couldn’t get a...
Thank you, PP!
Through college and after, I have visited Planned Parenthood for access to low-cost birth control and routine gynecological exams and cancer screening. It was Planned Parenthood that did my 6-month and 1-year follow up exams after I tested positive for HPV and had an abnormality on my cervix removed. Both follow-up tests performed at Planned Parenthood came back negative. This gave me...
Planned Parenthood Cared
My ex left when I was pregnant. I was devastated, confused and had no idea what to do. My job paid next to nothing (less than minimum wage, not quite sure how they got away with that) and was so active I didn’t know what would happen if they found out. I called Planned Parenthood and spent a long time speaking to a counselor. Thank God for her! She gave me options I didn’t know...
PP saved my life
When I became pregnant with my son, I had no one in my life. I lived about 1,500 miles away from home, and my family was upset and hurt that I was unmarried and pregnant. The child’s father wanted nothing to do with me, which was like a knife in the heart. I did not have many friends outside of the people I worked with. I was beyond depressed. I went to Planned Parenthood for counseling...
During most of my twenties I had no health insurance, and so I relied on Planned Parenthood as my primary health care provider. In 2006 I had a pap smear done at the PP clinic in Bloomington, IL. It came back abnormal. Another test, also performed at the clinic, revealed that I was just a hair away from developing cervical cancer! PP put me in touch with the Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer...
Thank You Planned Parenthood!
Anyone who knows me knows that I am a conservative! This first time I had to walk through the doors of Planned Parenthood I did not know what they really did. I went there out of desperation I could not find a doctor who would take my insurance. I had yet another infection and needed to get my depo shot. I started depo to save my life and have stayed on for that very reason. I could not believe...
Planned Parenthood saved me from potentially...
I started going to Planned Parenthood in my early twenties. I did not have health insurance, and need low cost contraception and annual exams. I also have Endometriosis. Because of the Endo, I would have horrible cramps that would keep me home from work. The pill provided much relief from the pain of Endometriosis. I also had pre-cancerous cells on my cervix. Thanks to Planned Parenthood, I was...
Planned Parenthood Saved My Future
The summer before I went off to an Ivy League University, the condom broke. My parents highly disapproved of my boyfriend and any premarital sex, so I turned to my friends for help and support instead. One of them drove me to Planned Parenthood the next day so I could get Plan B, and lo and behold, no baby! PP also arranged my birth control prescription so that I could be in control of my...
Planned Parenthood Saved my life
At 19 I had a pap test that detected precancerous cells. After minor surgery, no issues…..My Mother died of this cancer and I thank PP for saving me.
Planned Parenthood is there for Men as well as...
My story may surprise you. My friend is alive today because of Planned Parenthood. My friend beat Testicular cancer by keeping up with his annuals. He could not afford to go to a regular doctor at the time. A very experienced and wise practitioner at Planned Parenthood examined him, and gave him the advice to change some of his lifestyle around. She said “let’s see you back here in a...
If I HAD gone to Planned Parenthod I might have...
6 months after the birth of my son,in 1985, I had intense pain. Several doctors had no clue, although I lost 20 lbs in 3 weeks, and could barely walk for 2 months. A year later I moved and my new town had a Planned Parenthood which I chose for my health care. Apparently I had chlamydia, easily treatable. If treated in time I wouldn’t have had painful scarring that prevented pregnancy. I did...
First place I went for birth control advice/stuff
When I was 15 my gf and i went to PP for advice and birth control. I am in my forties now, I’ve had plenty of sex with multiple partners but I’ve never had an STD or an unwanted pregnancy. Thanks PP for helping me getting started the right way.
Republicans use Planned Parenthood, too
Thirty years ago, when I was a new college graduate and a new bride, Planned Parenthood saw me through a breast cancer scare (when I wasn’t yet covered by my job’s health insurance). They continued to help me get affordable birth control after I was covered, because birth control wasn’t included in my company’s policy — a big help while I put my husband through law...
When I Needed Some Help
As a single mom and college student money was always tight. After a horrible relationship ended PP was there to test me for STDS, make sure I had birthcontrol and condoms. They also did my exam for free!!! And for those out there who think PP is just for the poor and down and out that’s not true. I’ve seen the waiting room full of people from all socio-economic and ethnic back...
I'm still here.
If it weren’t for Planned Parenthood, I would have died very young. Their tests caught my evidence of cervical cancer in 1990. They treated it thoroughly and it has never returned 22 years later. They also provided me with prenatal care with my first child in 2001. If they hadn’t treated me in 1990, I wouldn’t be the mother of 3 children all these years later. I would not...
