what did you do?: embarrassing biological accidents

[AppleTree]

Whew, GLC - what a story. That "gushing" feeling is so scary. The things we women suffer through.

And wrapping the tampons in TP isn't without incident either. If you have a dog with a strong sense of smell...and you leave the door to the bathroom open. Well, you can guess the rest of that story. LOL.

[emily_in_nc]

And wrapping the tampons in TP isn't without incident either. If you have a dog with a strong sense of smell...and you leave the door to the bathroom open. Well, you can guess the rest of that story. LOL.

I hear ya! And don't all dogs have a strong sense of smell...nose brains? Fortunately there were no pets of any sort in my grandparents' house -- whew!

[GLC1968]

Yeah, we switched to covered trash in the bathrooms when we bought a house with a septic system and I stopped flushing tampons. Dogs can be gross!

Funny story though - our septic system backed up and we had it pumped and then the lines snaked and the culprit was a tampon. I was adamant that in the 5 years we'd lived in the house, I'd NEVER flushed one. The septic guy and my husband clearly didn't believe me.

Two days later I realized that our female college-aged farm sitter had stayed at our place the previous weekend. I was vindicated!!! ;-)

[lauraelmore1033]

I once had a gusher right on the cream colored sofa of my Husband's grandmother during a big family dinner get-together. I didn't even know my period was starting, but when I got up because we were finally leaving, all the women in the room gasped at the crimson ellipse I left on the couch. Dh's aunt is a real cool lady and she snapped into action, whisking the offending cushion away and taking me to the bathroom and finding me some pads. That grandma died a long time ago, but she never let me live it down. Every time I saw her she would tell me not to worry about the fact that I could have ruined her beautiful couch, because the cushions had slip covers and the cleaners were able to get the stain out. I don't really miss that lady. Or my uterus...

[malkin]

Use HYDROGEN PEROXIDE to get blood out of fabric!

I once left blood on an airplane seat. It was a horrible flight with delays at take off and arrival. I just left the blanket on top of it, tied my sweater around my waist and proceeded to the nearest restroom. I did feel bad for the next passenger. ew.

[FlyingScot]

Light blue scrubs, dysfunctional uterine bleeding and CPR are not a good mix. The thing is, I was doing compressions so it's not like I could stop and take care of the problem and not only that every time I pushed on the patients chest it caused me to bleed more. As in running down my legs and soaking my socks bleeding. Fortunately my scrubs were about 3 sizes too big and I miraculously avoided soiling them but my socks were a lost cause. I had to wear patient slippers in my clogs! Oh and that puddle of blood on the CPR stool well that was from a "disconnected IV" let me clean that up!!