Ok so, it was dark, cold, miserable when I woke up. Our water takes forever to warm up, and I'd had a hard time dragging myself out of bed, so I was already running behind. Took my shower, washed my hair, my body, shaved, all that jazz in as little time as possible. Got out, dried off, began dressing...
and noticed I had TONS and TONS of blood on my thighs. It was dripping on the floor even! I yelled for my husband, absolutely devastate and terrified, convinced I'd somehow gotten some sort of whacky period from my new birth control (I'm on CD 9 or 10 or something), or possibly god forbid some sort of miscarriage, because WTF?
Sat down on the toilet, crying, bleeding. After about 3 minutes, I noticed that the blood was like...really, really red, and not at all thick or period-y. Grabbed a handmirror and sure as shit, I'd nicked the hell out of my labia while shaving.
I don't know how I didn't notice--maybe the cold water? But I bled through 2 pantyliners after I figured it out.
I am such an idiot.
14 comments:
I'm sorry but this made me laugh. Any non-infertile person probably would have been like "huh, that's odd." But when you're TTC your mind immediately goes to the worst case scenario!
That sounds horrible. And comical. Poor girl. Must have been some nick!
Ooooo, that sounds brutal. Poor thing!
Ouch, I cringed as I read this!!!
I hope your girly bits heal soon!
Good luck with your January IVF!!
Happy Holidays and Happy ICLW!!
#50
Holy crap! Ouch!! What a scare, but damn woman, your labia? Ouch, it bears repeating,
OMG!!!! You just scared the crap out of me...i may have to start using nair down there.
OMGosh what a ...... scare!! Glad you figured it out though! Musta been one heck of a cut!!
Happy ICLW from #37 and HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!
OMG! That must have scared the crap out of you! I've been known to convince myself that blood on a tissue from a bloody nose was from some sort of crazy mid-cycle bleeding so I can definitely see this happening to me! ICLW.
Oh my goodness I would have passed out! But it's a little comical too...
- iclw #91
Yikes!!! Ouch!
That's a BAD feeling! Glad it was okay. Happy ICLW!
oh god that cracked me up - when I was pregnant I did the same thing trying to shave what I could no longer see - at the time i said the shower looked like it had been used to film kill bill 3. Horrifying! Bleeds like the buggary doesn't it?
I had a similar experience once while in the bath. My razor slipped off the side and underneath me without me knowing. When I moved to sit up straighter, I cut myself badly and the bathwater started to turn red like something out of Psycho. Ididn't feel it until I got out and rubbed my towel between my legs, trying to figure out where the blood was coming from. You can't exactly put a BandAid down there can you?
Isn't it funny (not ha-ha) how our minds leap immediately to some sort of IF meaning? I can tell you that this doesn't go away. I have had children, but my paranoia and sensitivities on certain things bring me right back to my infertile days.
Lisa (ICLW 74 - Your Great Life)
Hi, just visiting from ICLW and your post really made me chuckle :) The things we women do to ourselves!
I hope everything heals up quickly and is not too sore :(
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