It seemed like such a great idea
One night when I was about 8 years old, I had a stuffy nose. I was in bed and my nose was so clogged I had to breathe through my mouth. Suddenly I felt I had to sneeze. Maybe I was a little too influenced by watching so many cartoons on TV that I got the brilliant idea that if I sneeze through my nose, the clog would go flying across the room and splat against the wall.
So, that's what I did. Unfortunately, my plan didn't work out as expected, instead my nose started bleeding so bad I was soon laying in a pool of blood. I yelled for my mother and she came running into the room and when she saw all the blood she began to go berserk. She was wailing and crying and carrying on like she lost her mind. I quickly realized I would get no help from her. I started to feel a little weak, probably from loss of blood and it dawned on me that I had to stop bleeding real soon or I was going to die. I knew the way mom was carrying on that it was going to be up to me to save my life. I pinched my nose to stop the flow of blood and used the back of my tongue to close off the passage from my nose. I took a deep breath through my mouth and held it as long as possible. I repeated the process several more times until I was able to stop bleeding. I can't remember what happened after that but I think I dozed off to sleep.
Comments (2)
Leap ahead about 3 years and me and my best friend Danny ,were on 86th st when I spotted a kid from the camp. I said "hey Green, how you doing?" He said Hey Baldy, how's it going? Danny, looked at me and said, Baldy? I said yeah, remember that time I got a baldy? and he said oh yeah I remember. and we had a good laugh.