copy/pasted from an e-mail I sent to a friend

[honeymonster]

 I'm sorry I haven't written!  I am trying to recover from what sent me to the hospital.  I think it all started with the car crash?

See, in April* the brakes of my car got squishy on the way to Steve's.  I used the AAA membership Pete got me to get a truck to take it home.  Then, when I had to go to therapy, Rona lent me her car.  I was almost at my destination when her brakes went out and the car slid through a red light and into oncoming traffic.

Luckily, the people who hit me didn't get hurt and I didn't cause a pileup.  However, the car was totaled and I had a broken rib.  And when I got home from the hospital that night, my period had started.

It continued to be here for four months, often with flow so heavy I couldn't leave the house.  I really did not expect this to stop on its own, because it never has before.  A bit less than 2 weeks after my period stopped, I got some blood tests done for a couple of doctors.  That was Friday.  On Saturday I got a frantic call from someone and went to the ER.

My hemoglobin count, they said, was below the cutoff point, which was 7.  Mine was 5.  So I got admitted to the hospital and  they started my first blood transfusion.  All in all, they gave me 3 bags of blood and 3 bags of iron solution.  I was in the hospital until Tuesday afternoon.

I sure wish I could just get a damn hysterectomy.

*I was wrong, it was March.

 
Sunday morning I started bleeding again.