Red.
It was like a scene from a horror film. In the shower, blood splattered EVERYWHERE. Except instead of being stabbed to death, the source of all the blood was my nose. Yes, projectile bleeding at its best. It was getting EVERYWHERE [No exaggeration, but I have no pictures to prove this...], and I was trying to clean as I bled to my near-death, naked in the shower…
I hadn’t experienced anything CLOSE to this since ’98 in Brussels when I had to stand over the hotel room sink while my nose ran like a leaky faucet. The bleeding only stopped after we ran down to the bar downstairs to ask for some ice. That, and I was probably low on blood by then!
You want to scare the shit out me? Well, this would do it.
Would I not live to see week two of 2008?! Would I collapse in a pool of blood with the shower running above and blood-splattered walls around me? Would CSI realize that I hadn’t been murdered and that I had instead died from a very bad nosebleed? For a moment, I thought I should perhaps write “NOSE” on the wall – a final bloody clue to the mysterious death of moi.
It was barely clotting when I was able to hop out of the shower, conditioner still in my hair, trying desperately to keep pressure on the nose. Scary. Luckily, the bleeding stopped after about two hours of applying pressure and just sitting there.
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I’m glad my shower time isn’t anywhere near that exciting. The worst I have to deal with is the race to get a towel on before the mischievous look in the cat’s eyes goes from “Hmm” to “Flying Pounce Attack!”
The BF uses tampons in those situations. I mean, isn’t that what tampons are for? ;)
OH MY GOD! I’m glad you’re ok!