ALL OF THIS! My 21st birthday present was an abortion and it is hands down the best thing I have ever done for myself. I deal with a 24-hour waiting period and a trans-vag ultrasound, and those two things were the worst part. I, too,am grateful for your experience, just like I am for mine.

If you can, get a therapist. It took me years to stop being afraid. Talking out your fears helps. Also, assess whether your fears are justified and if so, maybe you need to get farther away.

Thanks for sharing, I had a medical abortion two years ago and I have never had a negative thought or feeling about it. Good for you for making the decision you wanted, and i’m glad you were able to get around work - I had to wait an extra 2 weeks because I needed to take two days off for it.

My dad, the Old Bear died yesterday. I was at work and because he would have accepted nothing less, I finished my shift.

I had a medical abortion about five years ago and same, I was so glad.to have the option and not overly sad about the whole process. The worst I felt was on the morning I took the second pill, mostly, I think, because I was stressed. I had read so many really frightening stories on the internet (I know, I know) and…

Cheers! Went through that last year in Memphis....it was not easy or convenient, but I would do it again. Lost a lot of “friends” and when one said they judged me and wouldn’t be speaking to me anymore, I said (and do not regret this), “I’d fucking do it again, on a stage, just so you could see it, get the fuck off…

I created a burner just so I can post this, but it won't post and whatever. I'm not ashamed.

First time using the morning after pill.

Goal for tonight: talk my husband into going to the VA ER and check in for detox. I even bribed him with money to fix today so he can go in high. If all goes to plan, he can stay there and transfer to a 45 day rehab inpatient program. In the meanwhile, I’m moving back in with my parents while I job hunt. I hope he…

Sunscreen!

Yeah I read this and was like

I’m so sorry for your loss. I was lucky that all my family and friends got out, though I had kin spiral into deep addiction issues as a result of being evacuated and displaced. The storm took lives away in so many ways. I hope the tenth anniversary (and all the attendant media bullshit) isn’t too rough for you and…

I know, man. I’m fuming here. She’s trying to use a catastropic disaster as some kind of bullshit cleansing rain metaphor. And the idea that Katrina fixed the city’s problems in some kind of magical reset is laughable. Maybe she should have, you know, read one of a billion 10-year-anniversary Katrina think pieces…

As someone who lost family in Katrina, this lady can fuck herself. She’s just another out of touch white woman who laments the fact that poors and browns have the audacity to run shoulders with her.

If you read the piece, it’s about finances and government.

THE FUCK?!? The population growth since Katrina is disproportionately white. The city has actually had a net loss of black residents, most of whom could not afford to come back and rebuild (or as she says, “reset.”) Because of what house stock was rehabbed (err...reset) and because of tourism to the city fueling Air…

As of the beginning of 2014-2015, they are all charter or private.

Her applauding the willful destruction of the New Orleans public school system (New Orleans is almost entirely charter school scams now) is just so typical of the Tribune editorial board and their hard on against those evil teachers and their unions and omg why can’t they just shut up and teach for pennies. Jesus…

I’m mildly impressed that she wrote that without invoking Noah. Because she literally asking for a biblical flood to wash away the sinners.