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But it actually saved my life once.  I was barely 20 years old (early 1970’s) when I was having a gyn checkup at the local Planned Parenthood clinic - it was cheap and all I could afford. The doctor left the room, I was curious and flipped through my chart. There were some odd notes about my Pap test results. The doctor came back and I managed to get up enough courage to ask about the notes (after all I wasn’t really suppose to be looking and I thought the doctor would get mad).

The doctor scowled a bit, but answered my question, “Those tests results just mean that your tests were a little off, but you are too young to have cancer, so don’t worry about it.”

Well worry I did, it was in my nature, a habit that I still struggle to cope with and overcome, but life had taught me well by then that if something bad could happen it probably would. So I scraped together some money and went to a regular gyn who redid my tests - the results: positive for cancer.

I had to beg my father to let me use his health insurance from work so I could afford the surgery, but he finally agreed as long as I paid for all the deductibles and any costs not covered by the insurance. So I changed my address to his house, luckily I was taking a few college classes so I had student status and qualified for his insurance. Within a few weeks I was in the hospital with cervical cancer having a hysterectomy.

(Continued tomorrow: Part 2 Curiosity saved my life but…)

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