After the 1st dose of chemo, my menses came, which caught me by surprise, as I had always heard that chemo would stop the menstruation even if one is not menopausal. And when I moved my bowels, there was blood on my stools. Also, I found dried blood in my nostrils. Initially, I was alarmed - was chemo going to cause me to bleed from practically every orifice?
Dr Wong assured me that the menses was normal. And, she asked if I had piles - that's right, I had not produced a bloody mess, the blood was just on the surface - so it was the piles. She gave me diosmin/hesperidin to reduce the size of the piles. Then, I recalled that at Changi, when I was on oxygen using the nasal prong, I had dried blood in my nostrils too. Ignoramus!
Ignorance is bliss, but at times, ignorance can make fools out of us, sometimes in a hilarious way, that is, if you can laugh at yourself.
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