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missyann Ending her pregnancy saved her life
The swelling was the first sign that something was wrong. It showed up in her hands and feet. She struggled to squeeze into shoes.
Susan flipped open her “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” book and turned to the section that outlined when to call a doctor. Her kind of swelling and sudden weight gain – she’d put on 11 pounds in one week – made the list.
He wasn’t an ob-gyn, so she called hers.
“Have your husband take your blood pressure, just when he’s able to,” the doctor advised.
On their way to dinner in Berkeley, California, that evening, he suggested that they swing by his office first.
Her blood pressure “was off the charts,” Susan remembers 30 years later. Her husband dialed the obstetrician, who asked whether he had any urine testing strips handy. He did, and they showed that Susan’s protein levels were dangerously high, indicating a problem with her kidneys.
“Get over to the hospital right away,” the obstetrician ordered.
Susan at first balked. She felt fine, just swollen. Plus, she was hungry.
“Can’t we go to dinner first?” she asked before being rushed out the door.
She stayed in denial for as long as she could. Doctors were alarmed about her blood pressure, but she wasn’t. They said her kidneys were shutting down, but that didn’t register. Instead, she focused on the ultrasound they took, which revealed the baby’s gender.
She looked with excitement at her husband.
“Oh, my goodness, we’re going to have a boy!” she said. “Aren’t you happy?”
His face was grim, she remembered. “He knew that this was not looking good at all.”
She was at 24 weeks and had severe preeclampsia. Doctors said she was on the verge of having a stroke.
“It’s like you’re being poisoned by pregnancy,” she said, explaining her condition, “And the only way to cure it is to not be pregnant.”
The fetus was behind in its development and not where it should be at 24 weeks.
It “needs at least two weeks to be even minimally viable, and you just don’t have two weeks,” the doctors told her. “You don’t have two days.”
Still, she tried to negotiate a deal. She was a physical therapist. She could rehab herself after a stroke, she told them. She could rehab their baby. She wanted to deliver it, if not vaginally, then by C-section. They said her body could not withstand either.
They promised her the fetus would feel no pain before stopping its heartbeat. Then they put Susan under to perform the dilation and evacuation procedure, in which the cervix is dilated and the contents of the uterus extracted.
Her abortion was a necessity and felt like “such a no-choice choice,” said Susan, 59, who later had two daughters.
It wasn’t what she wanted. It was what she needed to live.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/25/health/abortion-late-in-pregnancy-eprise/index.html
Buuut i know this example that you requested will fall on deaf ears because to you this can be safely dismissed because any healthcare professional who recommends abortion is and "abortion quack" 🙄
