My old problem of nose bleeding is coming back. It started in p4, the last I remember. A slight rub on the nose would trigger the most ridiculous flow of blood from my right nostril. If I continued talking like usual while it bled, it trickled at a rate of about 2 drops per second. No kidding. Some of my closer primary school friends can testify to that. Well in fact some of you have seen me bleeding over the years.
I sought treatments at clinics, they prescribe some medication (which I cannot remember what they contained), and they didn't work. Went on to specialists and there were some discussion about surgery which got me all jittery. Hey, surgery to a 10 year old is a pretty big thing okay. In the end I went for this treatment where they inserted this tube into my nostril (oh I could still imagine and recall the feeling of that thing), by which the doctor showed, on a screen, where the wound was to my mom. Then using something which I had thought to be a drill, the doctor went on to do his thing, on my nose. Miraculously, after once or twice more weak bleedings, I recovered! I eventually found out that Kok Yong had the same issue, and he was given the "silver nitrate" treatment, which I assumed to be the "drill" treatment, cos it required some burning.
It was amazing because for years, I couldn't touch my nose, for the very slight push causes profuse bleedings. I had to stuff tissue paper into my nose, in hope of stopping it, but imagine the paper sticking out of my nose... just that instead of being white, it's all drenched red. My bleeding was really powerful. haha. And the disgusting thing is that after a while, there were 3 possible outcomes; one, the bleeding stops. Yay. Two, the blood comes out from my other nostril. And three, the bleeding continues through the tissue paper. Totally 夸张 right. So in the latter two cases I'd try my best to bring it to the first. The thing is, when it finally stops and I have the tissue paper taken off my nose, it comes with a trail of agglutinated blood curd/jelly, that could be as long as my index finger. The horror I had to go through as a kid! Haha!
So after that treatment I could blow my nose, or rub it, as hard as I want.
But it came back to haunt me intermittently. Several times in secondary school, several times in JC. There was this rather embarrassing time in JC when I bled suddenly during bio class, and it just so happened that the tutor was going through the menstrual cycle. You don't have to guess where the blood landed. It went straight onto my pants (yes you were supposed to assume I was in a proper sitting position in class listening to the tutor). So I excused myself to try to clean myself up in the toilet. After I stopped the bleeding, I tried to get the stains off my pants by wiping the parts with wet tissue. So while I was earnestly at it, my junior came into the toilet and saw the back view of me "doing it", and he was like "eh 你在做什么！“. How embarrassing.
It came back again several times while I was serving my NS. I kept quiet cos I didn't want to be downgraded. I wanted to do well in my training schools. I even kept it from the medical examiner when I went for the pilot selection body test (I made it to the stage where I were to sign a contract together with my parents. I decided against it cos the MOE scholarship was at stake, and the odds of making it through to being a pilot were pretty low, in my opinion).
And it came back again in university. Saw the doctor in UHC, and he told me "oh the weather is pretty dry these days. your nasal walls are very thin, and in dryness, cracks easily causing the bleeding" I was doubtful about it, citing my history with nose bleeding. He challenged me "apply vaseline into your nostril. I'm a doctor for 40 years. Trust me it will stop," to which I countered "I don't think it will!"
"If it doesn't stop, then you come back and see me again."
And I never went back to see him! (well if you know some mathematical logic, that condition implies that the bleeding stopped. No, logic is not as logical at other times)
Now it's back. I'm using the leftover vaseline from then. Hope it stops. Being the bioengineer that Zhi Cheng is, he advised taking more berries and dark leafy vegetables cos they aid in strengthening blood vessels. And he offered me what he used to take last time! Grape seed capsules! 谢谢 very much!
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