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Lara KyzylovaEnglish 2010Michelle Szetela10-01-2017Flash Memoir REVISIONDo you ever get informed of something that you’ve never heard of and think to yourself: “Why did she tell me that?” This happens to me all the time, and the time that I can recall very well was the time when I was 16. I was informed of Planned Parenthood organization and what it does for the community. When I was 16 years of age, like any other teenager I dealt with a lot of acne. And we are talking- my face, my neck, my shoulders, etc… Acne is very hard to get rid of especially when you’re going through puberty or it simply runs in your family.I have a younger brother, AZ. He is only one year younger than me and has been dealing with acne before I’ve gotten it. The very first pimple that he got was on his nose. And you probably think- how does she remember that?! Well, he was around 14 years old, he ran into my room, freaking out about his face. My mom was already out for work at the time, and my brother and I would usually walk to school together. It was my responsibility to make sure we got ready for school. AZ ran into my room, pointing at his nose and repeatedly kept saying: “Look, a spider bit me in my sleep! I can’t go to school like this, kids will make fun of me!” I looked closer and didn’t notice two bite marks and wondered to myself if that was it-a zit. I pressed on it and he screamed from pain. Standing there, panicking, I said to him: “Calm down, let me call mom and find out what it is and what we need to do!” When I have reached my mom, she laughed and told us to just not worry about it, that many kids struggle with acne and just go to school. Days go by, the zit goes away, but another one comes out. What our mom told us to do-to not worry about- didn’t work for him, and he was getting anxious about getting rid of it. I mean, wouldn’t we all get anxious? “ I hate my face, I hate looking at it, I hate being made fun of, I don’t want to go to school anymore!”-he said every morning by looking at himself in the mirror. He kept popping them, and they kept coming out, so my aunt recommended getting a Proactiv kit- face wash for acne. Proactiv worked really well, but once my brother stopped using it, the acne has gotten worse. His whole face was covered in pimples. When I found out that I had acne I didn’t want to end up in the same shoes as my brother. I was recommended by a girl friend to get on birth control. I was not sexually active and thought to myself: “Why would I get birth control? How will it help me?” I was told to go to Planned Parenthood and that it won’t cost me a lot of money. Apparently, Planned Parenthood not only provided services for sexually active people, but also for those in need of dermatology-provided-treatments for an affordable price. When I got to the clinic, I stated my acne issue to the receptionist. “Don’t worry, we get a lot of teenagers with the same problem daily!”- she said calmly. I was told to take birth control pills every day until my face clears out. When I started taking birth control pills, my acne started going away and made my face clearer. I was a happy camper knowing that Planned Parenthood doesn’t only offer prevention from getting pregnant, or treatment for STDs but also offers many other services that are beneficial for your health. Works Cited Parenthood, Planned. “Official Site.”?Planned Parenthood, 2017, . ................
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