Rather than make an issue out of it, I'm certain she could find a local doctor who would 'help' things along a little.

When Sarah Nolan began experiencing lower belly pain in May 2022, she thought she had a UTI. But at the urgent care clinic, she learned she was pregnant. Her IUD, a contraceptive device that's more than 99% effective, had failed.

"I was devastated," Nolan, a 26-year-old PhD student in Los Angeles, wrote for HuffPost. She and her husband, who were not prepared for parenthood, "willed the pregnancy to vanish."

The next day at her OB-GYN's office, tests confirmed the pregnancy but nothing appeared on an ultrasound. "Given the date of my last period, the doctor told me, there was probably something growing outside of it," Nolan wrote.

In other words, Nolan's pregnancy was ectopic, meaning the fertilized egg had implanted somewhere other than her uterus, most likely her Fallopian tube. IUDs raise the risk of ectopic pregnancies, which require swift treatment. Otherwise, the embryo can rupture the fallopian tube, leading to internal bleeding and possibly death.

But Nolan said she wasn't treated swiftly. Rather, when she went to the ER from her OB-GYNs office as instructed, she said the doctor didn't treat her at all.

"I suspected he sent me home to create time, to delay further procedure, just in case the pregnancy that I did not want turned out to be viable," she wrote. "In looking for a baby, he did not see me."

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Aug 17^th, 2022 at 12:03pm:


You must be so handy with a wire clothes hanger, Grapp.