This is your last notice, the form-letter email said. You are overdue for a pap smear.
Oh fun.
So I got that over with on Tuesday.
What I had zero expectation of was the doctor saying that that was my final one: I had aged out. I didn’t need to do this again.
Wait. All this time and nobody ever told me I had that to look forward to?? Seriously?
It really *was* my last notice!
Edited to add: I got a note from an old friend, who says that an old friend of hers recently died of cervical cancer at 80 and that even older women in monogamous relationships should still be tested. I’m very sorry for the loss of her friend, and I regret having possibly in any way contributed to anybody else going through that in the future. I apologize.