Bloody sleepless nights
Mar. 24th, 2003 08:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I went to bed at the reasonable hour of 11. Almost as soon as I opened my book (was planning to read for 15 minutes or so before sleeping) my nose started bleeding. 'Bleeding' hardly describes it, blood was flooding out of both sides so fast I couldn't tell which side was the source. Ugh.
I get nose bleeds for no reason a lot, so this was annoying but not surprising. What was surprising (distressing) was when three hours later it was still gushing blood. I pinched it to death, I tried the rarely used (by me) ice on it, but the darned thing wouldn't stop.
At four hours of bleeding (3 AM, whimper whimper) I was pondering going to the hospital. What stopped me was how silly that seemed, going in in the middle of the night for a nose bleed (flood). I was also wondering how much blood you could lose through your nose, if it could get to the point of being dangerous. Luckily around 3:30 it slowed down, so I turned off the lights and kept the tissue on it. Sometime after 4 I went to sleep.
Alarm was supposed to go off at 6:30, but my devil-in-fur cat woke me up at 6. The tissue was stuck to my nose.
Two hours of sleep. My sinuses/head/nose are full of blood. I can smell it, I can taste it. (Blech.)
Sleep, sleep, I need sleep. (And man, do I want to blow my nose now, but that'd be doom.) Not a great way to return to work after a vacation.
I went to bed at the reasonable hour of 11. Almost as soon as I opened my book (was planning to read for 15 minutes or so before sleeping) my nose started bleeding. 'Bleeding' hardly describes it, blood was flooding out of both sides so fast I couldn't tell which side was the source. Ugh.
I get nose bleeds for no reason a lot, so this was annoying but not surprising. What was surprising (distressing) was when three hours later it was still gushing blood. I pinched it to death, I tried the rarely used (by me) ice on it, but the darned thing wouldn't stop.
At four hours of bleeding (3 AM, whimper whimper) I was pondering going to the hospital. What stopped me was how silly that seemed, going in in the middle of the night for a nose bleed (flood). I was also wondering how much blood you could lose through your nose, if it could get to the point of being dangerous. Luckily around 3:30 it slowed down, so I turned off the lights and kept the tissue on it. Sometime after 4 I went to sleep.
Alarm was supposed to go off at 6:30, but my devil-in-fur cat woke me up at 6. The tissue was stuck to my nose.
Two hours of sleep. My sinuses/head/nose are full of blood. I can smell it, I can taste it. (Blech.)
Sleep, sleep, I need sleep. (And man, do I want to blow my nose now, but that'd be doom.) Not a great way to return to work after a vacation.
