Seeing Red

First thing I saw today when I sit up from my bed was red. Blood stains over on my left arm. Not just a tiny blood stain. There were a big patch of blood stain, some small tiny patch of stains and some tiny blood clots on my arms. See picture. Those red marks aren't rashes or birth marks. They are blood stains.

I was so puzzled and was trying to find out the source where I might have bleeding which I do not know. I saw that even pillow had a patch of blood on it of about a diameter of about a $1 coin or a 50 cent coin (not very round though).

Upon seeing the stain on my pillow, the first thing I did was to feel through my head for any sign of wound which I could not find. So my next reaction was to look into the mirror to look at my face for any sign of blood stain. Especially when I heard before from my mum that I got cousins who had nose bleed in the middle of the night and they found blood stain on their pillow, etc when they woke up. Even though I do not have any nose bleed before, but seeing the stain on the pillow case make me worried. When I looked at the mirror and saw no blood stain on my face, neck, etc. Not even on my clothes. I was even more puzzled. How on earth did I get blood stain on my left arm and my pillow?

As I could not find out the cause, I decided to give it a rest and went to wash up and get ready to go to work. I washed away the blood stains on my arm and started to brush my teeth. There, I saw a teeny tiny wound where the blood keep coming out and it's coming out pretty fast. the wound is near the elbow and by the time I brushed my teeth and want to wash away the blood, blood had tiggled to my wrist and even to my elbow due to the position that my hand was held.

While I wash my face, the wound continue to bleed and I had to constantly wash it to remove the blood and by the time I reached my room and grab a cotton bud to clean off the blood. The cotton bud is already soak in my blood. That is how terrible it bleed. OMG! When I want to wash my wound with some solution (can't remember what) using cotton bud, it was too soak in blood and my arm looked very messy. So I had to change my mind to use cotton swab instead of cotton bud. And I can't remove the cotton swab away while I was trying to grab the proflavin solution. Even after applying the proflavin solution, I also had to leave the cotton swab on my arm while I tear the handi-plast so that it can continuing to absorb the blood. Not that I did not try applying pressure on my small tiny wound. But it just won't stop bleeding that in the end I just don't care. I just placed the plaster on the wound after I had cleaned it and it seemed to have stop bleeding now.

The top picture is taken immediately after I had just clean off the blood and yet it still bloody and within 1 or 2 seconds, it looks like the bottom picture. That is why it can get so messy while I was trying to brush my teeth and wash my face.

The follow top picture is the first cotton bud when I used to dry the blood off my hand the moment I reach my room after washing up. The bottom picture show the mess of cotton swab and buds after I stick the plaster on my arm.