Sandusky-
I had a half hour before my chiropractor came off of break. I decided to go to the library and goof off on the internet, but before that could happen the red rain began, not the bibical stuff, but the stuff out of my nasal passage. And it wasn’t a trickle… I didn’t have any paper towels, or napkins, I did have random paper bags that just seemed to smear the blood more and more. So… There I was driving down the road with a paper plate attached to my face because I had an out of control bloody nose. It was from the third circle of hell. I had blood everywhere. I skipped three people in the Dairy Queen drive thru because I was all out of options and ideas and pulled in like it was a pit stop.
The precious girl at the register looked at me and said, “$7.09 please,” then she looked absolutely mortified as the blood had soaked through the plate and was running down any part of my body it could find an avenue down. I told her, “No, that’s not me, I need 30,000 napkins and a free water.”
She handled all that well and I was satisfied because of my new ability to stop my nose bleeding.
I drove away creating levees and dams against my nose, at a frantic pace, always keeping an eye on the road.
Then I looked at the water.
At first I thought I had lost a lot of blood and shapes and sizes weren’t coming in correctly. But then I held it in my hands and knew I was right.
