Abortion Story 046: Patty
Patty (Canada)
May 29, 2003
About a year ago, I got pregnant. Both my boyfriend and I were not ready yet, so we decided on getting an abortion.
About a week later we went to the hospital. I cried all the way there.
On our way upstairs to the waiting room, I had doubts. I didn't know if this was what I really wanted to do. After they gave me some pills, to help me calm down, I was fine, and went through with it.
All I remember was lying on a hospital bed, in so much pain, and crying. All I wanted to do was go home. So we left.
When we got home, everything seemed a little better, until a couple days later.
I was in the shower, and I felt somthing slip down my leg. I ignored it, thought it was nothing. Then it happened again, but felt even bigger. When I looked down, all I saw was blood, large blood clots.
I called the doctor right away, and waited in the hospital room for almost eight hours. Finally, after eight hours, I had to pee. When I was done, I turned around to flush the toilet and it was full of blood.
When I told the doctors, they thought I might have had twins. They checked to see if everything was OK, and it was. A couple of days later, I started getting bladder infections constantly… was it caused by the abortion?
After a month, or two, I was still getting them. Then, finally, my lab reports came back negative. So what was it, then? Well, I went to another hospital and the doctor there told me I had cysts on my ovaries. Another doctor told me my uterus was smaller than usual, but did nothing about it — no tests, nothing.
It's now been a year, and a couple of months. I've seen over a dozen doctors, and I still don't have any information on what's wrong with me. I don't know if it's a tear in my uterus, or my tubes are blocked. My gynaecologist doesn't see a reason to perform any other tests.
Thank you for reading my story.
