Shperson

This past Wednesday Cassie Brown, a thirty-year-old publicist in the Chicago area, checked into the hospital with a completely shriveled finger. Brown’s shrunken digit was the result of a four-hour-long deep dive to feel for the bottom string of her IUD. Brown felt prompted to search for the Intrauterine Device after a casual sexual encounter on Monday night. Brown recounted her decision, “We’ve been hooking up for a while. I trust him. I thought, why use a condom if I already have an IUD in?” Her sexual partner declined to comment, though evidence of their acquaintance does not go past one month ago. “If it fell out I would have, like, seen it right?” Her roommates noted her yelling from the bathroom for several hours on Wednesday, “If I just go up a little bit more I’m sure it’s like right past that boney bit.” As night fell, her roommates were forced to enter the bathroom and bring Brown to a local ER. Brown’s legs had fallen asleep akimbo on the toilet, and her upper n...