Planned Parenthood helped me to save my father's life

Planned Parenthood helped me to save my father’s life

My father was in need of a heart and kidney transplant, and the plan was for me to be his kidney donor as that would allow him to receive a new heart more quickly than if he was waiting for anonymous donors for both. I was determined to be a match and was medically cleared but the transplant team felt that since it’d had been over a year since my last pap I needed a new one, something I thought I had plenty of time for it. But a heart became available just two weeks later, and I needed that well woman exam immediately. My own doctor couldn’t squeeze me in, but Planned Parenthood did and rushed the pap results so I could be cleared to donate my kidney within days of my father’s heart transplant. I had never been to a PP clinic, but the nurse practitioner was so kind and supportive and very informative and I will never forget how they made it possible for me to support my father; he’s doing wonderfully today and PP played a role in that outcome.