Hallelujah! I Have a Nosebleed!
reverendhornibastard
Depraved Deacon of Degeneracy
2020 has been a very odd year! Among the many “firsts” in my life that I’ve experienced in 2020, I can now add my peculiar sense of elation and relief over having a nosebleed.
The fall season is upon us and, for me at least, it means my annual second bout of hay fever (only slightly less annoying than my springtime hay fever).
Sure enough, I’ve been hacking and coughing a lot, wheezing and occasionally feeling puny. But with all the Covid19 hysteria, it was difficult not to consider the possibility of a much more serious, alternative diagnosis.
“Should I go have myself tested for Coronavirus?” I asked myself several times last week, fretting more about how my family would fare without me than the possibility of my own demise.
Then last night in the shower I began spitting blood.
I was overjoyed!
My sinuses were fucked up (just like they always get during my hay fever episodes) and now I was having my traditional hay fever nosebleeds!
Halle-fuckin’-lujah!
The fall season is upon us and, for me at least, it means my annual second bout of hay fever (only slightly less annoying than my springtime hay fever).
Sure enough, I’ve been hacking and coughing a lot, wheezing and occasionally feeling puny. But with all the Covid19 hysteria, it was difficult not to consider the possibility of a much more serious, alternative diagnosis.
“Should I go have myself tested for Coronavirus?” I asked myself several times last week, fretting more about how my family would fare without me than the possibility of my own demise.
Then last night in the shower I began spitting blood.
I was overjoyed!
My sinuses were fucked up (just like they always get during my hay fever episodes) and now I was having my traditional hay fever nosebleeds!
Halle-fuckin’-lujah!
14 comments
I took it and am pleased to say my results showed that I was negative
Getting tested should be easy and available to everyone not just folks with Medicare coverage from my provider.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll give it a try.
Sounds gross but it can’t be any worse than what I go through every spring and fall.
Have you considered relocating to the Tropics? I've heard it makes you twenty years younger and is sure to cure whatever ails you.
In fact I think I was just reading an article on that in the New England Journal of Medicine and you know that if they print it then it is absolutely true, well unless it isn't. lol
I lived in the tropics for many years (about 16 years). I lived in tropical SE Asia and in tropical parts of Africa.
I also lived pretty far north (in London).
Whenever I was away from my native stomping grounds (Texas), I never had hay fever problems and my sinuses were fine, even though some of the places I lived or traveled to had horrendous air pollution.
I could spend 3 weeks in Beijing breathing some of the filthiest air on the planet and be fine, but after landing in Houston after a nonstop flight from Beijing, my sinuses would start complaining before I had finished the 45-minute drive from Houston’s north airport to my home in Montgomery County.
My case was more unique that the avg nosebleed most people get that often stops after a few minutes – mine would not stop and would increase to the point I would lose consciousness if I didn’t get help.
Anyway – more of an FYI based on my particular experience w/ nosebleeds and that one needs to be careful if they don’t stop.
Wow! I’ve heard of nosebleeds like you describe and knew one person (one of my teachers when I was in junior high school) who suffered such nosebleeds.
Mine are nothing at all like that. Mine are minor and very brief (more like just the release of bloody mucous from an infected sinus).
I hope you never have another one like you describe.
If I don’t lose my sense of taste - I’m going to hope it’s a cold. I’m hoping they got the flu vaccine right this year too.