I've been away for a few days. I admit that I have not read blogs or commented.
I had the mother of all nose bleeds on Thursday morning. I was off to the bathroom about 1 AM and felt a drip fall from my nose. When I got to the bathroom and got the light on my hand had lots of blood on it. I tried to stop it and saw that the bleeding was continuing very rapidly. I called the Micro Manager for help. We quickly decided we had to call the ambulance.
The paramedic tried pinching the nostril and using a gauze plug. Nothing helped.
They decided it was emergency for me. So out I went out to the drive way in sock feet and boxers. The paramedic pinched my nose all the way to the hospital and while I was waiting for a bed. Then they put a clamp on my nose which stopped the bleeding but didn't cure things.
About 4 AM they inserted an inflatable plug. It wasn't nice but stopped the blood flow.
I was released about 10AM. I didn't have glasses or hearing aids. I didn't have shoes. The micro manager sent up a shirt, pants and jacket. I couldn't get the shirt over my head. So I was on my way home with no shoes or shirt.
So it was a long sleepless confusing night.
I went back Sat AM and got the packing out and fortunately the bleeding had stopped. It was a treat that a former student was in the ER and looked after me.
So it was a miserable time with lack of sleep, worry, loss of blood and a darn hard hospital bed to lie on for 10 hours.
Aren't you lucky that I'm not showing icky photos?
