(and NOT about lovin' you)
Ok, here is the scoop....one of my cats, smelled the other cat, all over my face and shirt, when I got down on my knees to give her lovin on the kitchen carpet....we usually go through a head butting routine where she just walks in circles and head butts my head...and I tell her what a sweet kitty girl she is.... it usually lasts 5-10 minutes before she plops down and expects me to start whispering how cute she is and petting her....
yah yah yah....I know how old I am....but, she is just "our little kitty girl" (even though she is 18 lbs)!
Okay, to make a long story short, she swatted me and her nails had not been clipped in a while so that part is my fault....
The nail caught the inside part of my nose bridge, near the corner of my eye...and immediately blood gushed everywhere....and I mean everywhere.....matt was at work...I rush to the bathroom to get a cloth to press against it to stop the gusher...
my cat's claw, apparently hit a VEIN.....
Blood trail everywhere on the way to the bathroom, blood shot on mirror, blood shot on side wall where the light switch was...blood, blood everywhere...yes, a bloody mess!
Okay, so I apply pressure, and after soaking the cloth, it completely stops bleeding....but before it completely stops, I call Matt, tell him, he needs to come home because I think I might need him to take me to the Doctor...Emergency room because of the time of night....he rushes home....but before he got here, i called and told him it stopped bleeding, i was laying down on the couch...go back to work all seems ok.
he calls his boss and the boss said, go on and get home to see how "Care" is doing....
So he gets home, and lovingly he cleans up the Blood Town massacre mess all over the place, and gets out the first aid kit, and cleans the cut...it was just a dot, a tiny little dot of a cut???? yet gushers of blood...?
so he takes a bandaid and puts neosporin on it, to heal the cut without a scar...I mean, in 2 weeks it is our 20th Anniversary and we are going away on a special vacation...can't have a scar near my eye! Damn it!
So, about an hour later, I go to get up off of the couch and SOME HOW strained the stupid cut near my eye and GUSHERS OF BLOOD everywhere again! So I immediately apply pressure, it stops bleeding, the hubby replaces the band-aid with white surgical tape and gauze with neosporin, covering tightly the whole area so it won't bust open again....
I also figured out if I held the area tightly when getting up or sneezing, it would not reopen the wound.
Well, it did fine all night, then i got up this morning and strained it when i sneezed, and some blood started seeping again, NOT gushing as it had, so it is closing up....it seems.
BUT, now I notice that i have a black eye...a circle under the eye....
WHAT is this from, and how in the heck do i get rid of it before we leave for vacay in 10 days?
Should I go to a Doctor? Or at what point would you go to a doctor?
Ok, here is the scoop....one of my cats, smelled the other cat, all over my face and shirt, when I got down on my knees to give her lovin on the kitchen carpet....we usually go through a head butting routine where she just walks in circles and head butts my head...and I tell her what a sweet kitty girl she is.... it usually lasts 5-10 minutes before she plops down and expects me to start whispering how cute she is and petting her....
yah yah yah....I know how old I am....but, she is just "our little kitty girl" (even though she is 18 lbs)!
Okay, to make a long story short, she swatted me and her nails had not been clipped in a while so that part is my fault....
The nail caught the inside part of my nose bridge, near the corner of my eye...and immediately blood gushed everywhere....and I mean everywhere.....matt was at work...I rush to the bathroom to get a cloth to press against it to stop the gusher...
my cat's claw, apparently hit a VEIN.....
Blood trail everywhere on the way to the bathroom, blood shot on mirror, blood shot on side wall where the light switch was...blood, blood everywhere...yes, a bloody mess!
Okay, so I apply pressure, and after soaking the cloth, it completely stops bleeding....but before it completely stops, I call Matt, tell him, he needs to come home because I think I might need him to take me to the Doctor...Emergency room because of the time of night....he rushes home....but before he got here, i called and told him it stopped bleeding, i was laying down on the couch...go back to work all seems ok.
he calls his boss and the boss said, go on and get home to see how "Care" is doing....
So he gets home, and lovingly he cleans up the Blood Town massacre mess all over the place, and gets out the first aid kit, and cleans the cut...it was just a dot, a tiny little dot of a cut???? yet gushers of blood...?
so he takes a bandaid and puts neosporin on it, to heal the cut without a scar...I mean, in 2 weeks it is our 20th Anniversary and we are going away on a special vacation...can't have a scar near my eye! Damn it!
So, about an hour later, I go to get up off of the couch and SOME HOW strained the stupid cut near my eye and GUSHERS OF BLOOD everywhere again! So I immediately apply pressure, it stops bleeding, the hubby replaces the band-aid with white surgical tape and gauze with neosporin, covering tightly the whole area so it won't bust open again....
I also figured out if I held the area tightly when getting up or sneezing, it would not reopen the wound.
Well, it did fine all night, then i got up this morning and strained it when i sneezed, and some blood started seeping again, NOT gushing as it had, so it is closing up....it seems.
BUT, now I notice that i have a black eye...a circle under the eye....
WHAT is this from, and how in the heck do i get rid of it before we leave for vacay in 10 days?
Should I go to a Doctor? Or at what point would you go to a doctor?