"I would go out tonight but I haven't got a stitch to wear..."

[randomneses]

THREE FIVE THINGS!

1) I almost went to the hospital this morning before school because I got a really, really, really bad nosebleed starting at home which got worse on the way to school and about a couple blocks from my house it just was INSANE. Sooo much blood and I started freaking out because there were a lot of blood clots and such but like

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[1voice]

My nose is always bleeding. I have "sensitive blood vessels" in my nose, apparently. My nose bleeds like that all the time, especially in dry places like school or in the winter. My nose is always bleeding at school, people are kind of used to it by now. They're just like "Oh hey, Katie is hemorraging from the nose, so what's for lunch?" The nurse actually yelled at me about it. Apparently I should be sticking Q-tips with vaseline up my nose everyday? I think not. Good story though.

[prettyparadox]

Hi, just like to say that I'm a "nosebleeder" as well. The blood vessels in my nose are too close to the surface, so if I so much as blow my nose too hard, that could trigger a nosebleed. Dust and dry air makes the condition worse, so I have a humidifer, comes in handy in the winter. Haha, eww, no vaseline and Q-tips! But there are saline nasal sprays - these products moisten your nasal passages and it's not...gooey and icky. :3

The long-term solution is getting the blood vessels cauterized with silver nitrate. It stings and burns. But cauterization makes the blood vessels less close to the surface or something.

Nosebleeds suck, yeesh your nurse should just hand you an icepack, it's not something one would purposely do. I certainly wouldn't even want to get out of class with a nosebleed. :-(

[1voice]

Ooooooooh, thank you. :D You are very helpful. My nurse is not.

[prettyparadox]

No prob bb. :-) Uhhhh...school health staff...yeah I've heard some pretty awful things. Like the nurses and doctors that work at the student health clinics in college - they basically failed out of everything else. Therefore even though healthcare is a bitch in the U.S., use it if you have it. :/

[randomneses]

Nosebleeds at school are SO annoying. I used to have them a lot during P.E. in middle school.

But yeah, moisture in your nose is reduced in dry weather thus the whole...vaseline in the nose thing.

[1voice]

Yeah, I understand her, but I am not sticking Q-tips up my nose every day. Especially the way she wanted me to...like, way up in there. Everytime she made me do it, I felt like I was going to sneeze to death. No fun.