ADVANCING HEALTH-CARE PRACTICE
2.4 Judy's Story
And now, I don’t go to the health-care system unless there’s something really dreadfully wrong with me. You just don’t want to be treated like you’re wasting other people’s time or you’re wasting your time. In a sense that’s a good thing, if you take more responsibility for your own health but I think it is tragic when you really are ill. So that definitely affects the future, where I will pretty much leave it to the last minute until it’s really bad and then sit through the lecture while they say you should have come in here a week ago. But I’m not going to subject myself to cranky tired people that treat me like I’m a number.
It was shortly after that that I found out I was pregnant. I don’t use the birth control pill because my family has a strong history of breast cancer. I had always used condoms, but he said he didn't really like to. I knew I should have been using something else, like a sponge, but I wasn’t really familiar with them. It was these lines that he continually just sort of pushed farther away from what I wanted. And I got the third degree from my doctor about not using birth control if I didn't want to get pregnant.
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