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Ugh. The dreaded pap smear. Even if the sensation doesn’t hurt you, the simple thought of someone scraping cells off of your cervix is enough to make you faint. Odds are that the first time you got a pap smear you thought, “I have to do this every year?” (Not to mention more frequently as you get older, or if they find anything). But for most women, though pap smears are inconvenient and uncomfortable, they aren’t worrisome. We schedule them into our calendars and don’t think another thought about them—as if we’re just going to get our car washed. We don’t really expect anything to come of these pap smears. We give ourselves a pat on the back for getting them and move on with our lives. So to get that call—that, “We found something abnormal in your pap smear” call comes as a shock. Here are things all women have thought after an abnormal pap smear.

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Um, can I get a little more information?

The limited amount of information the doctor gives you when she calls you is infuriating. “Abnormal” cells? What does that even mean? Were they moving around? Were they a weird color? Hello?

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