Right now, as I type this, I have a paper towel being held to my head with my hair. It was the only thing I could think of to do to stop the bleeding.
Oh, the bleeding. Oh, it’s minor. I scratched my head, and had this little skin ball under my fingernail. A scratch, or one of those weird skin thingys Dan calls polyps. Well, I thought it was strange, touched the spot with my head, and it was slightly wet. So, I decide I will take care of it, but I will go downstairs to the less busy bathroom, since it was already 5 and most people downstairs would be gone.
I get on the elevator. A flaw with my plan. Everyone is going home. We stop at every floor. Every floor! Except the second floor. But, I get to the bottom. I lift my hair, and slow moving stream of blood is flowing down from my head, headed for my eye. I would have taken a picture with my camera phone, but I left it upstairs. So, I grab a paper towel and mop that off. I wet another paper towel and mop up more of this river which leads me to the source. Then for the next 15 minutes, I press towels to my head. It didn’t really want to stop bleeding, but it slowed down. So, holding my head with a paper towel, I go back upstairs. When I get back to my desk, I find that I am not moving so much that the paper towel can sit there covered by my hair. Thank goodness I don’t have short hair anymore, I guess.
Still, such a silly thing. Why can’t something like that happen at home, where I am not at risk of co-workers overreacting?
I have a couple of those “thingies” and I want to pick them off so bad! But I think I’ll pass on the bleeding. Hope you’re better!
You were in the elvator with all those people and no one noticed you were bleeding? Wow! I glad you are better now. Head scratches always bleed the most. I once scraped a skin tag off on the back of my neck and it bled and bled and bled until I thought I would have to go to the hospital.
Well at least you didn’t have a bleeding finger when you were trying on bras and didn’t know it and got blood all over the bras that that didn’t fit. Yeah, that was me. Thank goodness I had my trusty Tide pen.
People get weird with blood. I can’t imagine why…
You poor thing…you could have been killed!
OMG! Did you cry? Did you barf at the sight of the blood? Did you get dizzy? I would have been some combination of the three!
I can’t believe that no one called 9-1-1 !
Beth - Well, band-aids help if they aren’t on your head!
VP - I have great hair! It hid the blood. I didn’t even see it until I pulled my hair back.
Finn - hehehe. Yeah, that probably was a good thing for me. Especially since I don’t carry a Tide pen!
Mr. Fab - I know!! It was terrible!
Metalmom - Blood doesn’t bother me, and there was no pain, and nothing worth crying over. I didn’t even pass out!
Ouch! Did anybody try and help? Are you going to claim workmans comp?
You should have made the most of it! Stumbled up to a coworker… knocked a few things over… thrown yourself on the floor and started flopping.
Seriously though… hope all is well.
JQ - No one did! I think I should sue the company for their inconsideration.
Fig - That would have been funny, until they called an ambulance or something!
It is embarassing- but it shouldn’t be. I have had moments of physical misfunction- everyone does!
I hate head wounds. Even the minor ones bleed like stink. Something about the oxygen flow up there being more because, you know, it’s feeding your brain.
Yep….Shades is right. Your scalp is supposed to bleed more than any other place on your body. (Tell me that when it’s that time of the month, though. *grin*)
I had a cyst removed from my scalp in a doctor’s office and it bled like crazy. Just like you, I had to get on the elevator, go through the medical complex, walk through the parking lot, etc., before I got to my car.
My blonde hair was stained bright red and it looked like I had been shot in the head. I never wanted to get to my car so fast in my life!
Yuck. I was sitting here with a grimace on my face the whole time. I have skin tags, too, so I know what you mean exactly. I hate them. Someone should invent something to get rid of them. Something like those things that they made a few years ago that you could get to shave the pills off of your sweaters. You could shave off all of your skin tags. Wouldn’t that be awesome?
I bet you were still beautiful. You’re just that kind of lady.
But next time, if you’ve got a camera, take a pic.
Buffalodickdy - I wasn’t really embarassed. I might have been if I was bleeding faster.
Shades - I don’t think it bleed any more than some of my other skin tags.
Blonde Blogger - Thank goodness my hair is dark!
I was thinking “Man, what if I was blond” mostly because my sister had a little head accident as a kid.
Shelli - That actually sounds kind of Epilady painful. LOL
Dick - Thanks! I’ll try to remember the camera phone next time.