Okay so today I wanna share something real personal but I think it’s important. See I found out I was pregnant last month and lemme tell you, I panicked big time. Bills are tight, my job situation’s shaky, and raising a kid right now? Nah. Didn’t feel right at all.
Started Googling my options in Brooklyn and kept seeing ads for this free talk thing at a place that handles abortions. The ads all said “Get info BEFORE you choose” in big letters. Figured, what’s there to lose? Free’s free. Picked up my busted old Android and dialed the number.
First call was weird – got put on hold like ten minutes. Almost hung up but then this nurse named Rosa answered. Real calm voice. She asked zero judgment questions, just stuff like “How many weeks you think?” and “Wanna come in Thursday 2PM?” Simple. Wrote it down on a pizza coupon so I wouldn’t forget.
Walking In Was The Hard Part
Thursday comes and my hands won’t stop sweating. Place looked like any other doctor’s office really – beige walls, ugly plastic chairs. Lady at the desk just handed me a clipboard like “Fill these out honey” no big deal. Funny thing? Half the forms asked if I wanted free condoms or birth control later. Smart.
Rosa called me back after twenty minutes. Short lady, purple scrubs, smelled like hand sanitizer. We sat in this tiny room and she started drawing on a damn whiteboard! Showed me like five different abortion methods like it was a damn math class. Said “I ain’t selling nothing, just showin’ options.”
What surprised me:
- They brought up emotional stuff nobody tells you about – like crying spells after
- Kept repeating “If you change your mind now, cool. Change it tomorrow? Still cool.”
- Gave me three different referrals for cheap therapists
Whole thing lasted maybe forty minutes. Walked out with this packet thick as a burger. Emergency numbers, side effect lists, even coupons for gynecologist visits. Felt heavy holding all that paper.
Still deciding honestly. But sitting in my car afterwards? First time since the pee test I didn’t feel like puking from stress. Just knowing every single way this could go down… takes the scary out of it. Wish I knew earlier they do these free talks. Coulda saved me two weeks of ugly-crying into my pillow.
