SYMIA- “So did everything look okay doctor? I may need to take vitamins, I just haven’t had much of an appetite, this is normal isn’t it? I wanted to come and see you because I don’t want to keep the baby. I mean I want to bring it to term I just---
DR.ROUSE- “Miss Brown---?
SYMIA- “I just can’t take care of a baby, I start college in the fall and I have so much right now that I have to do, plus I just turned 18. I spoke with the father and he is in agreement that we should give the baby up---
DR. ROUSE- “Miss Brown, please... I need you to listen to me, okay?”
SYMIA- “Sure. I just didn’t want you to think that I was here to, well you know terminate---
DR. ROUSE- “Miss Brown,... you are not pregnant.”
SYMIA- “I just think there are so may people that want babies that... wait, what did you say???”
DR. ROUSE- “Please, have a seat... I said that you are not pregnant.”
SYMIA- “I don’t understand, I know I am pregnant. I took the test, three of them to be exact. How can I not be pregnant now, I was two weeks ago. Are you sure?”
DR. ROUSE- “Positively sure, you are not pregnant. I checked, and the blood work confirmed it. Not only are you NOT pregnant, but you nave never been pregnant.”
SYMIA- “I don’t understand...”
SYMIA- “Please explain, why did the tests show that I was, and if I am not then why haven’t I had a period?”
DR.ROUSE- “First of all if you took all three of the test at the same time, that is why they all showed a positive.”
SYMIA- “I took them within a half an hour. After the first one showed positive, I took the second one right away because I thought maybe I did something wrong. Then the third one, I suppose I took it because I didn’t want it to be true.”
DR. ROUSE- “A lot of time the tests are not correct and show a positive when your are negative. Many reasons for that, Taking the test too soon, maybe your enzymes levels were high at the time, or even lower than normal. Or you could have been running a fever, or they were just a bad batch of tests. I wanted to make sure so I checked to see if maybe you had been pregnant and you lost the baby, but your cervix and from everything else there I could tell, there is no indication that you were ever pregnant, Miss Brown.”
SYMIA- “But my period is late, really late.”
DR. ROUSE- “Again, that could be a number of reason, some of which I already mentioned. Or it maybe that you are just stressed over the fact that you thought you were pregnant. So I am going to give you Medroxyprogesterone, take it for three days, each morning. It should help you start, and if not, call me and we will need to do further testing. There could be a lockage in your fallopian tubes, or something else. But you can rest assured, Miss Brown. You are not currently pregnant.”
