MY ABORTION EXPERIENCE : A TRIP TO HELL

I was a young naive girl, and unfortunately in love in my 20s and did not know much about, safe sex, or contraceptive pills. The combination of a naive girl that’s in love and a very matured and experienced boyfriend, one of the likely outcome was unwanted pregnancy which eventually became my cross. It was a Saturday morning my boyfriend gave me the address to a clinic with 5000 Naira for abortion threatening that he would never have anything to do with me if I refuse to terminate the pregnancy.
The only sign I was in a clinic was the dirty looking nursing uniform of a young woman who at best looked like a tailor apprentice who called herself a nurse, the environment was dirty and of course NEPA also played its usual role but, there was a “I better pass my neighbor” generator at the entrance of the hospital but, I had no choice my business was to abort!!!!!

 The doctor examined and said i was 4 months pregnant and said I could no longer do the usual D n C, I just started crying and begged the Doctor, and he bluntly refused without betraying any emotion meanwhile the result of the scan I had on me showed that I was 3months pregnant which made me more anxious.


 The following day my”boyfriend“went with me to the hospital, Unknown to me all his Ex all had a taste of d doctor's tool. The doctor advised him to leave the pregnancy after all he's been aborting for ladies for some years now that it was time he repent but, my dear boyfriend pleaded and lied that he had no job so he wouldn't be able to cater for the baby, so the doctor agreed to do it and naturally he tripled his charges which by boyfriend agreed to pay without any objection.

 Before I knew what was happening I felt too iron pass through my vagina and drawing something in my uterus, it was as if the doctor was weaving in my uterus, I cried and screamed because it was so painful now in retrospect it was callous that the doctor did not offer any form of Anestassia which also gave some doubt about the competence of the doctor   After about 3min of weaving the doctor asked me to go home and told me to come back when I feel like delivering.

The following morning I had to struggle to get back to the hospital in pains and anguish but what can I do as my super lover had left me for work?  I got to the hospital and I was placed on drip, I was bleeding profusely, I passed so many big blood clot before the baby finally came out. I was a bit relieved and the pain that followed did not allow me to feel the guilt of my action

  The bleeding and the pain continued through the night and tiny pieces of blood clot we’re coming out, the following morning the nurse on duty removed the drip on me and informed me that the doctor said that I was free to go home. I was discharged on Tuesday morning looking like someone who has just given birth to a baby with breasts full and swollen face because of poor sleep I could barely walk and my super boyfriend was nowhere around to share in the trauma of the procedure. 

From that day, I started having heavy vaginal discharges with strong foul odor which is usually more prominent during my period and when I have sex I did about two other abdominal scan which did not show anything was wrong but the heavy smelly discharge persisted. It took me 2yrs before I was totally free from the pains and the guilt of the abortion.

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