I had another girl come in looking for a pregnancy test this morning. She came in with her caretaker. Apparently she's been kicked out of the house, has quit school, she had sex (with a condom) a few months ago and hasn't had a period in 2 months. She's fifteen.

I swear I'm more nervous about this stuff than the girls who come in here. I guess it's because I've never actually had a pregnancy scare myself, so when I'm faced with it, I start to think about how something that like can change your life forever. Also, I want to be the person that the girl can confide it, and can be relaxed around.

This time, these clients just showed up in my office, with no advanced warning. Game on. So, I had to think fairly quickly on how to deal with this. Well, giving her the pregnancy test was the first step, I suppose. I asked her how long ago it happened, and if she would feel more comfortable doing it here or at home. She decided (thankfully) to do it here.

I have to thank my intuition here for telling me, just last week, to go ahead and try out a pregnancy test, just in case I had to explain the proceedure to anyone (fyi: it was negative, obviously).

So, I went into the washroom with her, and we got open the package (and, sweet fuck, that cellophane around the package is mighty hard to open when you're nervous). I explained to her what to do with the test, and what to expect. When she was finished, I told her to come on out, and we'd wait a few minutes for the results. So, she came back out, and I got some brochures, condoms, and lube for her, and urged her to go on birth control. Turns out they were going to go to the hospital and get her on BCP as soon as they found out about the test. Yay! I made sure to stress to her, though, to keep using condoms because the BCP doesn't protect against STD's. So, with that, I told them they may want to test again, just to be absolutely positive, but that she probably can relax now. I wished her luck, and off they went. I hope she does okay. She seems like a sweet girl.