Quote Originally Posted by shootingstar View Post
Sigh. Much to my horror, I discovered this morning I had blood stained the crotch of my medium khaki green casual pants and I had probably been walking around in the office, possible in view of 3..or more employees for over 1 hr.

Honest at my age (post 50), it was not expected. So all I could do was wrap my cycling jacket around my waist, take short commuter train to a pharmacy and buy some feminine "papers" /protection.. In the end, I changed into my lycra cycling skort and cycling mtb shoes. That was my office business wear for the rest of the day.

Fortunately I had no meetings..

What did you do when you had accidental stains from periods, etc. that you discovered later..? There times I fervently wished that biologically being a woman wasn't such a hassle that it required vigilance..
You poor girl...that is one of the worst/most embarrassing things that I can think of happening... Like Emily, that only happened to me one time - at work- at lunch hour - in a crowded cafeteria. I "felt" something was wrong and sure enough, to my horror and dismay. I am not sure anyone noticed or not. I am pretending that no one did. I had already ordered a sandwich, but I walked out as fast as possible and drove home (10 minutes away, thankfully) and changed...oh and I was wearing WHITE pants too ... what a poor choice during the last months right before menopause, I was having a terrible, terrible time with bleeding then, it was scary. I WISH I had known then about the luna cup, etc, discovered that a bit later on vacation, and I swear that thing saved my sanity, honest to pete.

You should be able to salvage those, soak in cool water and detergent and then wash, the new detergents now are pretty good.