SEE YOUR DOCTOR "Breast cancer ki lis! See your doctor." Get a pop smear at least once o year." "Vaginal infection, see yourdoctor." "AnyonecongetVD. See your doctor." So when I got a card say ing I was due for a check- up I we nt to see my doctor. Fine All and all it was satisfactory, until I started getring the b ill s. $16.00 for "Medical Laboratories." I thought he sa id $8.00. Well, that must include the pep smear. l pa id it. Then I got the b ill. $20.00 fo r the check-up and culture smear. And $1 2 for something called CBC, A contestant on Jeopardy gave his occupation as "househusbond," Canadian Broadcast ing Company? It wasn't included story be ing that his wife worked and he stayed home and took care in the littl e explanat ion of initials below the bill . of the children. Art Fleming smiled and then asked, "Well, when Today I get a b ill from another laboratory for SS.UO you ' re not being a househusbond, what is it you really do?" for the pop smear. All and all that comes to $53.00 foro fifteen minute check - up. What does t his mean to a woman in New Orleans? If she's a teacher or a nur;e it means more than two days toke-home pay. If she ' s a secretory earn ing S350 a month, that's Sl6.00 a day ;. she has to work more than hree days to pay for a check up. Is my doctor unusually expensive? He says he isn ' t. He says he's charg ing less now than he d id ot his prev ious pract ice. Is he perhaps one of the two or three mos t famous doctor; in the city? He hasn' t even been out of his residency a year I And what about the labs? Do they have to charge that much? Who knows? What con we do about it? I don't know. But l' rr. goi ng to compla in. Someone suggested paying on ly half the bill. Since collection agencies cost the .. doc tor and labs, perhaps they would eventually lower thei r rates . Bu t the woman's movement in New Orleans is too sma ll for a boycott. If you have any sugges ti ons, ..,ple ase write us ond shore them . ~~~ Free pap smear; ore ava ilable to al l wome n through January ot pop c lini cs be ing set up by the New O rl eans Area Unit of t he Ame rican Cance r Soci e ty. Note t he fo llowing schedul e for the c li nics in t he city: My mother lies I woke up th is morn ing in the room ove r my head Gobs of Lou isiana sun light Jon 16-18: Flint-Goodrich Hospitol , 2425 Louisiana She shrieks at me Shone in d iamonds on my wall. Avenue, noon-4 p.m. to ho ld he r wrinkled f lops of breasts Insistentl y a bi rd col led Jan 22-24: Kingsley House, 914 Richard St.,4-9 p.m. elbow wings and drooping OOttocks Bobwhite, bobwhi te. Jon 25-26: Helen Levy Health Center,3400 Florida close against my bell y. I loy still looking at the wall Avenue, 4-9 p.m. She hopes And sudde nly I realize . to climb between my round thighs I don't love you any more . Also in Jeffer;on Parish at the Parish Health Center;, and begin ogoin. Ill N. Causeway Blvd. and 1901 Eighth St. in Harvey, I still see your face, .:te Jon. 17, 19, 22, 24, ond 26 from 8 a.m. to 4:30p.m. In the yard That faint half-hidden smile is playing and from 6 to 8:30 p.m. the flames &Jt l feel no poin . In St. Bernard, 7517 W. Judge Perez Dr., Arabi, crackle along the piled twigs turn to sputter; and smoke To check I sort of skip into the bathroom. Jon. 21 from I to 5 p.m. The free pop smear; ore part of a four year campaign at the wet green spots. The girl in the mirror smiles at me. by the local Cancer Society against uterine cancer. Dr. Slowly or fast Gone are her haunted eyes the flames Those deep wells of sadness Friedrichs Harris, chairman of the Uterine Cancer Task Force, claims that Louisiana ronks last in terms of eat the wood. Dripping onto her face, women who have a pop test even once. He also says Turning her complexion gray. that if women would receive regular pop tests (once a 0 mother whom I hove hated year), uterine cancer deaths could be virtually elimi- 0 mother whom I hove loved Instead I see chee rful old me --- soy goodbye. Reaching for o toothbrush nated. Trying to repress a hum. l IV. Real izotion by Myra How!;..,,:'~ • The distant night 'calls me. I thought it was you. The stan plead with you to meet my embrace and each breeze might be the rustle of your garments. + lle on the lookout fo< Flo