Elizabeth Banks: I Thank Birth Control Pills for My SonJust over a year ago, my son Felix was born via gestational surrogacy. He came out of me nine months early and because of my broken belly, his babycake was baked in a wonderful angel’s oven and now — I can’t believe it — he’s a year old and walking. He has expanded my capacity for joy a thousand-fold.
His life would have been much harder to come by if not for the birth control pill. How’s that, you ask? Well, it’s a simple fact: The pill is used for many situations that have nothing to do with the prevention of pregnancy. The pill was prescribed to me when hormonally induced migraines kept me locked up in dark rooms for days at a time. It was prescribed to me to regulate insanely painful cramps every month — cramps so painful that I often vomited.
And here’s a little secret I am happy to blow the lid off of: The pill is often prescribed during the IVF (in vitro fertilization) process to help MAKE BABIES! That’s right, women dealing with infertility are often put on the pill to help regulate a cycle so that they might have a more successful IVF. The pill is used to manage ovarian cysts, endometriosis and other conditions too. Not to mention, it helps couples plan for wanted children.
Obviously, I’m not a doctor. I’m just a woman grateful for my necessary and very helpful medication. And I’m sure glad I don’t have to discuss any of these conditions, including infertility, with my employer.
A girlfriend and I recently wondered what would be more mortifying: having to tell her male employer she needed birth control to mitigate a heavy flow or just bleeding all over herself in the office?
So with that image in mind, I encourage all women — and the men in their lives — to protect access to birth control, and encourage our politicians to take women’s health issues out of the political process.
For more information, please visit the most comprehensive and willing advocates for women’s health in America: www.plannedparenthood.org.
(Source: lizcrissplanty)
Things change, people change, and life flies by!
OK, to my small handful of followers let me say this first, thank you! Sorry I have been so lax on posting things, but as with school and work and life, these things tend to happen. Today will be a little post that consists of any random thought that crosses my mind.
First, weirdos. Ok, sorry, let me explain, people in your life (past) that you wish to hell would just stay there. In high school it was a hard time for me, for numerous reasons that I will no doubt, eventually post on here. Anyway long story short, boyfriend at the time cheated on me with a “friend”. At the time, I wasn’t sure which hurt more, the fact that he cheated, or that it was with a person I considered a friend. I think that I took it out on my “friend” the worst. She confronted me about that, saying how unfair it was, and I basically replied that the behavior from him was not a huge shocker (he was a repeat offender) but that the behavior from someone I trusted was just a deal breaker. Anyway, I was disgusted with her and that was that. She graduated a year before me, so she was gone forever from my life..so I thought. THEN after the boyfriend from high school and the boyfriend after him I met my current boyfriend (a year after I graduated). He’s a handful of years older than me, and from a different town. I automatically assumed that him knowing anyone from my school/town would be rare..I was wrong. As it turns out, he spent his growing up years in this state, with that girl and her family! He even dated her older sister!! AHHHH!!! He said he even considered her to be like a sister. I was like, oh, great, you have got to be kidding, of all the people to know..it’s that girl. grr. I explained to him what had happened, and he was really cool about not getting mad of how I thought of her, and told me that in the past few years the relations had sort of diminished. GOOD RIDDANCE, right? Wrong. Occasionally on Facebook (rarely) she will post or “like” something of his, that’s whatever, I really don’t care all that much because I know his feelings about the matter. Here’s the laugh out loud reality of my life: Boyfriend and I go to the gym Tuesday night this past week (we have been trying to go as much as we can together, which is working out quite well!). I didn’t feel good so I wasn’t on my A-game in observations, and my mom was there, so I had gone to find her at one point too. As we are leaving, he says to me “Did you happen to notice who I was stuck between on the elliptical?” I replied saying that the only person I had noticed was this super jacked guy going to it. He says “I was stuck between my ex and her sister” (He used the names but for privacy sake I will leave them out). I’m like oh, awesome sweet. He says, “Yeah she said to me ‘Are you and Katy still together?’ and I’m like yeah she’s actually right over there…and then she was all ‘oh that’s so cool that you guys go to the gym together how is she?!’” Somewhere along the way he had told me (a while back,as in, before I knew him) this girl had tried to get his attention/get him to like her. So to me, and knowing that she knows I don’t like her, it’s super awkward that she would ask him how I am and all that good stuff. Love him to death though, glad he was upfront and told her I was even in the same proximity. Also glad I didn’t see her, because I am not that confrontational, so I would have been nice, but then fumed afterwards. It’s honestly how I am, I hate to hurt people’s feelings or make them feel bad, so instead I cover up how I feel until I can just vent at whoever will listen.
Anyways, that was my fun little, the things in the past that just wont go away tirade haha. There’s plenty more where that came from, but I think one is probably enough for a long time. It’s kind of a comical look at my life, and how I can’t get mad, but I can kind of laugh at the hilarity of it all! You should do it too, don’t take life to seriously, it’s way more fun when you can laugh at yourself :D
About me
I'm 21. In school.
I have a boxer, he's nuts. (I'm sure you'll hear plenty about him)
This blog will be among the most random things ever, mostly containing whatever is on my mind at that time, I wont promise anything specific because I know I wouldn't be delivering on that promise.
