It all started with two little pills – one from above and one from below …
There are not often medical stories in my life that end up in giggles, smiles, and rainbows, but I am proud to say this one did!
In my adolescent years of spinal cord injury I developed several pulmonary embolism’s causing me to take blood thinners for several years. As a result, high levels of estrogen in my blood (found in many contraceptive pills), which have the tendency to cause blood clots, would forever leave me in a situation where estrogen could quite literally kill me. This posed a challenge for me as I became sexually active several years following my accident.
In my particular case, becoming pregnant would very likely result in my untimely demise. Needless-to-say after being killed by several medical professionals years earlier due to a cockup with a certain medication; I was not particularly keen to repeat this experience nor have a little bun in my oven of my own. Continue reading