OLD ABORTiON TECHNiQUES

I was wondering what to blog about when Desiree gave me a great idea! She mentioned old techniques that women would use to do an abortion at home. It reminded me of a movie with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet called Revolutionary Road. This movie was about a young couple in the 1950's who have a depressing relationship. Kate's character is unsatisfied as a suburban housewife and Leonardo is unsatifised with working at marketing company. They wanted something different so they decided to move to Paris. On Leonardo's birthday, he sleeps with a secretary at his job and he continues to. Later on in the movie, Leonardo gets a promotion at his job and after everything was set to go to Paris, he decides that he doesn't want to go. He then tells his wife of the affair and she didn't even care, she was COMPLETELY FINE WITH IT. When your wife doesn't care about her husband having an affair, you know that marriage is beyong repair. Eventually, she gets pregnant and she wants an abortion. Leonardo doesn't want her to so one day she acts as the perfect house wife then when he goes to work, she tries to use a suction device to abort the baby. It goes wrong and she loses a lot of blood and dies.

Before there were clinics to operate abortions people would creat their own concoctions to abort their babies. Desiree told me that Mrs. Hansbury said they used to use hangers to have an abortion. Some people would drink poisons, knitting needles, hot pins, while they were sitting in a scalding hot bath to prevent the birth of another child. CRAZY! Not only were they trying to kill their baby, they were also endangering themselves. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out, but I guess people were so desperate to not have babies that they would do anything?

SPONSOR MEETiNG.

Yesterday, I went to go see my sponsor. I've been trying for the last week to set up a meeting with her and I finally did! She told me we could meet at 2:30 and so we did. When I got there, the stupid desk ladies told me she stepped out and told me to wait. After an HOUR of waiting, I finally decided that we could reschedule and meet on Thursday. The first lady that was there left while I was waiting and the lady that replaced her went to see if my sponsor was in her office and SHE WAS THERE THE ENTIRE TIME! I was highly upset, but after talking to her I was fine. She showed me around, where to sign in, gave me the polo (now I have to wear one for school, work, AND VOLUNTEERING. GREAT!) I have to wear, and showed me where I would have to go, and introduced me to some of the people in the Radiology section. They were all unbelievably nice. I'm excited to start there. She also had some bad, but at the same time good news for me. She told me that because the ultrasound department is small and that there is another student there, I wouldn't be able to just stay in that department. Instead, I get to touch every aspect of Radiology! I'm actually happier about that because now I get to experience all of the different types of machines and see how they work. So, now I'm going to be going there on Fridays from 2 o'clock to 6. They only require 4 hours a week so that's even greater because it won't interfere too much with my work schedule. :)