I have a red bump on my nose that started out looking like it was going to be a little skin cancer, but which now looks just like a hemangioma, a little blood vessel-filled lesion of mostly cosmetic significance.
Sitting in front of my laptop tonight I felt and saw blood dripping from my nose. I sometimes get nosebleeds, so I just pinched my nose and went in the bathroom. Looking in the mirror I saw this was no ordinary nose bleed, it was my little hemangioma that had sprung a leak.
I still reached for a cotton ball and saturated it with decongestant nasal spray, which is what I do to stop nose bleeds, and I just placed it outside my nose. Holding it there with some pressure, the bleeding slowed down after which I applied a styptic pen to cauterize it. I keep that around for the very rare shaving accident a man can have.
Simple tools to have around. Back to the computer…
Oh, that reminds me of when I diagnosed my own vitreous detachment of my eye while visiting family in Sweden.
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