My Single Mom Life

Every morning I wake up and take all of my medications.
I take my pain medicines, my muscle relaxer, my joint supplements, my cal/mag/zinc, my blood pressure medicine, and for the last week and a half, since going to both the ER and my doctor, an aspirin a day for blood clots.
Aspirin thins your blood out so that you don't get as many blood clots, and it also helps to break up some of the larger already formed blood clots.

Today I decided to do some things to make myself look and feel a little better before we leave tomorrow for our trip.
I colored my hair for the first time in a year, plucked my eyebrows, and shaved my legs.
I don't shave my legs all that often, like maybe once a week.
I just don't see the need to do it often as I have no one to be looking at my legs, or rubbing my legs, so I let it grow and then shave it once a week or so.
Yeah, maybe people consider that kinda gross, but meh, shaving my legs is a total pain in the butt and I usually use Veet, but I didn't feel like doing that today.
I now wish that I had used the Veet though, and from now on I will.

When shaving your legs and taking an aspirin a day, if you cut yourself, you bleed and bleed and bleed.
Holy crap do you bleed.
I didn't even realize that I had cut the skin near my ankle bone, I lose feeling in my lower legs and feet from time to time, so I didn't feel the cut.
I didn't notice that I had cut myself until I looked down into the tub and saw that the water was tinged with red.
I looked all over both of my legs for the cut, and that's when I saw it right on the ankle bone, and it was just gushing.
I finished up my shower and got out making sure to stay standing on a towel so I didn't bleed on the floor, but I still didn't know how bad the bleeding was going to be.
I dried off my legs really good, cleaned and dried my ankle, and by the time I got done opening the first aid kit, opening the box of band-aids, and opening a band-aid, there was blood just gushing out of the cut, my foot was covered in blood, it had soaked through the towel and was starting to stain the terrazzo floor.
I cleaned off the cut again and put the band-aid on.
I got dressed and looked down, it had bled through the band-aid and was running down my foot again.
I took that band-aid off and put on a new one, it bled through that one in a matter of minutes too, so I got out a gauze pad, folded it up, and taped it to my ankle.
10 minutes later, it had soaked through that too.
I changed that one out, and it bled through the new one in about 20 minutes, so the bleeding was slowing down, but it was still bleeding too much.
I put on another new gauze pad and tape, and this time it finally stopped bleeding enough after a good 2 and half hours that I could put a regular band-aid back on it.
It was really scary that way it just kept bleeding, the boys were joking about how I was going to bleed to death from shaving, but I didn't think it was all that funny considering how much it was bleeding, it really scared me.

After I finally got to stop bleeding, I went and finished packing my stuff up, well most of it.
There's some things that I can't put in my suitcase and carry-on until we are actually ready to leave in the morning, but it's mostly packed right now.
The boys are all packed up too, I think there's just a few more pieces of clothing for each of us in the dryer to pack up after it stops.
We're heading over to Mindy's house for dinner tonight, then coming home, trying to get some sleep, and then leaving here around 4:45am to head to TIA (Tampa International Airport) to fly Jet Blue to Maine.
Everyone is so excited for our trip, we're excited to be going, and family and friends are excited to see us.
It's going to be a very good trip.