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Fickle ([personal profile] fickle) wrote2007-07-30 09:02 am

Varicose veins are DANGEROUS.

So, this morning, I heard a commotion in my sister's room, panicked, jumped out of bed and went to see what was wrong.

Turned out that one of the maids had varicose veins in her foot and one had suddenly POPPED, resulting in an actual pool of blood on the floor. Or, well, blood creating a huge stain on the carpet, anyway.

I never knew that could happen, or that you could lose so much blood through your foot.

At any rate, my father's taking her to the doctor today, my mother's at work, and the other maid is taking care of my sister. My father, of course, is very annoyed because it's the maid he considers useless anyway and he's fretting about what could have happened if it had exploded during the night and she'd bled to death. It would have been a disaster explaining it to the Austrian police and to her family back home. My mother's more focused on the fact that this means we'll be short-staffed and I'm feeling kind of exhausted-sick-feverish though that really has nothing to do with Charndini being sick.

Moral of the story, kiddos, is that varicose veins are bad. Avoid developing them if you can.

[identity profile] nevita.livejournal.com 2007-07-30 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
Bweh! Sorry to hear that, Fickle. x_x; Just for the stress factor around the house.

[identity profile] fickle-goddess.livejournal.com 2007-07-30 09:09 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. This is going to throw the household way off and DAMN, I need more sleep. *hugs*

[identity profile] nevita.livejournal.com 2007-07-30 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. x-x; That must be tough. I can't imagine what it's like having maids. o-o But! That seems hectic? XD;;

Go to bed. ♥ ;;

[identity profile] fairly-grimm.livejournal.com 2007-07-30 10:47 am (UTC)(link)
Where did you go.

One more thing to be paranoid about, exploding footblood.

[identity profile] fickle-goddess.livejournal.com 2007-07-30 12:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Lunch with my mother, Teri, Teri's daughter, Teri's grand-niece, Teri's grand-niece's boyfriend and three of Teri's grand-niece's friends.

It can happen while you sleep -- and then you never wake up! But this puts all my mother's warnings about not putting my feet against heaters in a new light.

[identity profile] a-white-rain.livejournal.com 2007-07-30 12:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh god, I hope she'll be okay.

[identity profile] fickle-goddess.livejournal.com 2007-07-30 12:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Same-age. I mean, it wasn't my favorite maid but it still must be a scary thing to have to happen to you at any time, let alone when you're in a strange country.

[identity profile] daemonsadvocate.livejournal.com 2007-07-30 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Hope she's okay; and I thought the risk would have been less if you're asleep because your body slows down and goes into that whole sleeping mode. Really sorry to hear that happened though, sounds terrible.

Very scary @.@''

[identity profile] yukirien.livejournal.com 2007-07-30 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Eeep! I hope she's alright, and the household equilibrium will be soon restored.

Mayo Clinic says to elevate feet when not sleeping, probably to reduce pressure there since the veins are swollen anyways, and to not stay in one position too long to help good blood circulation to avoid developing them.

[identity profile] xinda.livejournal.com 2007-08-01 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
Gah.... X_x I hope she's okay... and... ouch...