Help Leslie get Tubal Ligation!
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*EDITED: Due to the amount of unpaid time off i'll be having to take, i'm raising my campaign goal.*
Where to begin? I've known i don't want kids for my entire adult life. Where some people feel a drive to reproduce, i have felt the opposite...the idea has always been the furthest away from what i want in my life, and i wish to avoid pregnancy at all costs. I believe women should have legal access to abortion, but i want to make sure that if i can help it i never have to go through that...which i absolutely would if i ever became pregnant.
While i admire my friends who are great mothers, i know i would not be well suited to it, and even if i was able to do an ok job of it...I don't ever want to have to. I have chronic insomnia, depression, anxiety (including panic attacks) and occasional extreme intorversion. I do not wish to ever force a child to have to cope with my problems when often i have problems even coping with basic day-to-day life. I would be at a high risk for postpartum depression, and i cannot even fathom wanting to take on the heavy emotional payload and rollercoaster of raising a child. Much respect to those of you who do...it is incredibly hard work and i respect you for it, but more than anything in life i dearly wish to abstain, and i even more dearly wish to make it a medical surety that i won't reproduce.
I have plenty of other reasons that i have never wanted children, many of which i won't post here but you are welcome to message me about if you are interested. However, people have tried to change my mind for as long as i can remember, so please don't...i've heard it all before and i will say this: MY MIND HAS LONG BEEN MADE UP. I need this, i want this. I'm not going to change my mind.
While i do have decent insurance through work i have found out that with the deductible i would still owe around $700 out of pocket, give or take. In addition to that i am asking for $100 to cover medication costs and a couple of days off of work afterwards (for healing purposes). *EDIT: I'm asking for an additional $700 ($1500 total) to cover the paycheck i'm going to lose by having to take 2 unpaid leave weeks off!* While this doesn't seem like a lot for me to have to pay i am still paying off the $2000 emergency loan i had to take out at my bank to cover Percy's emergency vet bills a little over a year ago. My own medical bills and overdue credit card bills have stacked up and i am finding it almost impossible to get out from under them. I cannot afford this right now on my own, unless i wish i to go even more into debt and have more bills go into collections.
I would really like to get this proceedure done sooner than later, possibly before the new Presidential administration, as i they incredibly unfriendly to women's reproductive health proceedures and i am very worried they may remove some of the insurance protections that Obama put in place, thus making this even more expensive.
I would be so, so SOOOOO incredibly grateful of any contribution. You would be helping me fullfill a lifelong goal that i have never been financially solvent enough to afford...i will seriously weep tears of joy if i get help for this.
*PLEASE READ THE UPDATES SECTION FOR MORE UP TO DATE INFO!*
Where to begin? I've known i don't want kids for my entire adult life. Where some people feel a drive to reproduce, i have felt the opposite...the idea has always been the furthest away from what i want in my life, and i wish to avoid pregnancy at all costs. I believe women should have legal access to abortion, but i want to make sure that if i can help it i never have to go through that...which i absolutely would if i ever became pregnant.
While i admire my friends who are great mothers, i know i would not be well suited to it, and even if i was able to do an ok job of it...I don't ever want to have to. I have chronic insomnia, depression, anxiety (including panic attacks) and occasional extreme intorversion. I do not wish to ever force a child to have to cope with my problems when often i have problems even coping with basic day-to-day life. I would be at a high risk for postpartum depression, and i cannot even fathom wanting to take on the heavy emotional payload and rollercoaster of raising a child. Much respect to those of you who do...it is incredibly hard work and i respect you for it, but more than anything in life i dearly wish to abstain, and i even more dearly wish to make it a medical surety that i won't reproduce.
I have plenty of other reasons that i have never wanted children, many of which i won't post here but you are welcome to message me about if you are interested. However, people have tried to change my mind for as long as i can remember, so please don't...i've heard it all before and i will say this: MY MIND HAS LONG BEEN MADE UP. I need this, i want this. I'm not going to change my mind.
While i do have decent insurance through work i have found out that with the deductible i would still owe around $700 out of pocket, give or take. In addition to that i am asking for $100 to cover medication costs and a couple of days off of work afterwards (for healing purposes). *EDIT: I'm asking for an additional $700 ($1500 total) to cover the paycheck i'm going to lose by having to take 2 unpaid leave weeks off!* While this doesn't seem like a lot for me to have to pay i am still paying off the $2000 emergency loan i had to take out at my bank to cover Percy's emergency vet bills a little over a year ago. My own medical bills and overdue credit card bills have stacked up and i am finding it almost impossible to get out from under them. I cannot afford this right now on my own, unless i wish i to go even more into debt and have more bills go into collections.
I would really like to get this proceedure done sooner than later, possibly before the new Presidential administration, as i they incredibly unfriendly to women's reproductive health proceedures and i am very worried they may remove some of the insurance protections that Obama put in place, thus making this even more expensive.
I would be so, so SOOOOO incredibly grateful of any contribution. You would be helping me fullfill a lifelong goal that i have never been financially solvent enough to afford...i will seriously weep tears of joy if i get help for this.
*PLEASE READ THE UPDATES SECTION FOR MORE UP TO DATE INFO!*
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