Do you FREAK out over BLOOD?!

X4biddenxLustX

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I hope I dont sound like a weirdo by posting this but im just sooo pissed off over this that i need to get it off my chest. A few days ago i went to exchange christmas gifts with a friend at her house. I consider her mom as a second mom to me so I ended up giving her a hug too when she first seen me and she told me she got a cut on her finger and was checking the back of my outfit to see if she may of gotten any blood on there which she didn't. So i wasn't really worried about that afterwards as I went home later on and didn't notice any stains on it either.

Fast forward to tonight, while eating dinner i notice a purpleish colored stains on the side of my purse which i brought with me on the gift exchange night. I asked my mom what she thought it was and she just chalked it up to being a stain from paint or a candy bar. Me, not convinced I go to my bedroom and sprays the stained areas with 70% alcohol and clorox anywhere spray and the purple stains turn bright RED. as in blood red!! i knew for sure it wasn't my blood or anyone in my family's as none of us had cut ourselves recently so it had to of been my friends mom. Now I'm not blaming her cause it wasn't like she intentionally decided to get blood on my purse. But i do freak out and go straight to my own mom and tell her its blood and its not from me and that i dont know wat to do. She doesn't even show any slight concern over that like wtf?!!! Like are you serious?! There could be so many things in blood especially if its not your own, you never know what someone else might have. And yes, I am one of those people who freak out over bodily fluids but I think I have every reason to. Plus theres a nasty dark blood stain on my purse. Frustrated, I asked if i could get gloves which she refused to give me. So i had to try to clean this out with my bare hands, bleach, antibacterial soap, hydrogen peroxide, special maximum strength cleaning spray, and laundry detergent all with a little old toothbrush. I was probably scrubbing for almost and hour and just getting super angry with the whole situation and the fact that the stain wasn't coming out to well and finally ask my mom who was the one who bought me the purse as a gift if I could just throw it away feeling as if me scrubbing away for a few more hours wouldn't make a damn difference. She tells me no and to just bleach it and it'll come out all with the same non concerned at all tone she had in the beginning. I go and do more scrubbing with different solutions the stain fades a bit but not enough to satisfy me all the while my face is getting redder with anger. At this point my hands are getting irritated from the cleaning solutions and I start shouting all the while being ignored from my mom. She didn't even offer to help or give me anymore solutions on how to clean it. She's just sitting there watching her stupid chinese soap operas which drive me insane cause at that moment its like thats ALL she cares about. So finally out of complete utter failure and frustration i just put the purse in a bag and go outside and toss it out. Still absolutely no word or reaction from her! It just seemed to her to be no big deal that i had some other persons whose health background i have no knowledge abouts blood on one of my things and that I could of been exposed to. It's really funny because she takes so many precautions when it comes to sharing food, eating utensils, and towels being shared by others.

Sorry this was a lonnnnng post but I hope I'm not the only person who freaks over blood/bodily fluids and find this whole situation annoying and hypocritical.
 

06290714

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I understand where you're coming from with somebody else's blood being on there & not knowing what the person may have, but I think you were a little too mad & frustrated at your Mom.

Personally, I don't freak out over blood. I'm an MA & deal with blood all the time, but I guess that's why I'm in the field I'm in
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Sorry to hear about what happened though, good luck!
 

banjobama

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I don't freak out if I see blood but it's pretty gross to have someone else's blood stain something you own. Tell your friend's mom she stained your purse. Why even hug someone when you are dripping blood enough to possible get it on someone? Ew. This is shallow but I would be more angry about my purse getting ruined than I would be worried about diseases, lol.
 

k.a.t

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^ lol

I'm just one of those people who doesn't really care, dunno why just how I am *shrug*
 

chocolategoddes

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I don't blame you for freaking out over a blood stain because that's just nasty!

But the funny thing for me is I have no problem with blood when it comes to seeing someone get stabbed, seeing blood spurt out of an artery, watching surgeries or autopsies, or someone coughing up blood. (The internet has desensitized me (if that's even a word))
I even like my steaks rare because the bloodier, the better imo.

But I always cringe when I watch someone slit their wrists. I don't know why.
 
I do not freak out over all bodily fluids, although I see why one would. I think, however, that the situation did not escalate because of the blood. You seemed to be rather calm at the beginning of the story. It didn't escalate until your mother did not acknowledge your concern. I personally hate that more than bodily fluids.
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X4biddenxLustX

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06290714: Lol. My dad really wants me to do something in the medical field preferably a nurse or a medical assistant but as time passes by I just realize more and more how unfit I am for that type of profession. I have the weirdest irrational fear that someone with some kind of weird contagious disease gets there blood on me somehow and i just happen to have a cut somewhere and there blood gets inside me and I get infected too. Silly I know but I can't help but shake that thought lol.

banjobama: I was sooo pissed when I spotted those stains on my bag cause not only was it someone elses blood (eww, cringes) but I had a feeling that since the stain had days to set it that it wont be coming out easily
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Yeah my purse was only one of those cheap $20.00 XOXO purses from burlington but it was a pretty nice purse too haha! I'm not one of those girls who can rock the coach, chanel, or lv bags apparently for this exact reason- it'll get stained and messed up! So bleh I'm not left without a purse so hopefully I can find a cheap replacement :/ But on how to bring this up to my friend in convo...idk? Like I dont want to sound mean or rude or your mom bled on my purse and I had to trash it now buy me a new one! Any suggestions on how to bring this up nicely?

Chocolategoddes: Lol I'm kind of weird about seeing blood on tv and in movies too. Some movies I can handle it while others like the hostel movies where the people were all getting tortured just make me wanna gag! The thought of slit wrists or throats freaks me out too. Now as for meats, I need them fully cooked! If i see pink I always question the person who cooked it and interrogate them until im convinced that its fully cooked rofl. I can handle raw seafood though like sushi with absolutely no problem tho its weird.

Bleedingbeauty: Thats exactly why I got so upset over this with my mom! She just kind of stood there like and idiot and didn't care and had no reaction over it. It was just odd in a way. I'm not the most domestic person really but she is, so I look to her for help with fixing these types of things. It just irked me so much since I knew she knew how to get the stains out but just decided to leave me stupid ass in the bathroom scrubbing my hands raw away! Sounds stupid but I think alot of it had to do with her chinese show, the ladies literally GLUED to the tv when certain shows come on. It's getting annoying ughh.
 

Vixen

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Don't bother bringing up the situation with your friend because it was an accident and you aren't completely sure it was her mom's blood. It's not worth making things awkward with someone you consider a second mom over $20.
 

06290714

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Originally Posted by X4biddenxLustX
06290714: Lol. My dad really wants me to do something in the medical field preferably a nurse or a medical assistant but as time passes by I just realize more and more how unfit I am for that type of profession. I have the weirdest irrational fear that someone with some kind of weird contagious disease gets there blood on me somehow and i just happen to have a cut somewhere and there blood gets inside me and I get infected too. Silly I know but I can't help but shake that thought lol.

banjobama: I was sooo pissed when I spotted those stains on my bag cause not only was it someone elses blood (eww, cringes) but I had a feeling that since the stain had days to set it that it wont be coming out easily
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Yeah my purse was only one of those cheap $20.00 XOXO purses from burlington but it was a pretty nice purse too haha! I'm not one of those girls who can rock the coach, chanel, or lv bags apparently for this exact reason- it'll get stained and messed up! So bleh I'm not left without a purse so hopefully I can find a cheap replacement :/ But on how to bring this up to my friend in convo...idk? Like I dont want to sound mean or rude or your mom bled on my purse and I had to trash it now buy me a new one! Any suggestions on how to bring this up nicely?

Chocolategoddes: Lol I'm kind of weird about seeing blood on tv and in movies too. Some movies I can handle it while others like the hostel movies where the people were all getting tortured just make me wanna gag! The thought of slit wrists or throats freaks me out too. Now as for meats, I need them fully cooked! If i see pink I always question the person who cooked it and interrogate them until im convinced that its fully cooked rofl. I can handle raw seafood though like sushi with absolutely no problem tho its weird.

Bleedingbeauty: Thats exactly why I got so upset over this with my mom! She just kind of stood there like and idiot and didn't care and had no reaction over it. It was just odd in a way. I'm not the most domestic person really but she is, so I look to her for help with fixing these types of things. It just irked me so much since I knew she knew how to get the stains out but just decided to leave me stupid ass in the bathroom scrubbing my hands raw away! Sounds stupid but I think alot of it had to do with her chinese show, the ladies literally GLUED to the tv when certain shows come on. It's getting annoying ughh.



i totally know what you mean..before i went into the medical field i could never picture myself dealing with blood and shit but i worked at a dermatologist office for a while and we did skin surgery..when i found that out i freaked, but after our first surgery, surgery days ended up being my favorite
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cutting open the back of somebody's head/scalp to pull out that cyst and than stitching it back together, hmmmm. haha weird i know
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abbey_08

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yeh i wouldnt bring it up with your friends mum, she didnt intentionally do it and it might not be her blood anyway.

i can see why you would be upset about it but once you washed the blood off the 'stain' that was left behind wouldnt be harmful because youve used ALOT of cleaning stuff on it so it. the stain might of gone once it ha dried anyway.
 

Blushbaby

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Okaaaay...the blood was a dried stain right? You weren't cut anywhere on your person right, so what harm were you gonna come to?!

I know you're pissed about your bag and hopefully you can find a replacement, but you sound a bit "brattish" the way you're pissed at your Mum for not noticing. That's just the way your post comes across to me.
 

Holy Rapture

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Well, honestly, please make sure you don't talk to your friend or her mom about this. I think it would be very disrespectful since you yourself mentioned that she's like a second mom to you! I can understand your discomfort but, don't let it out in anger. She didn't mean to harm you or your purse now, did she
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It's alright. As for your mom, I think she could've let you have gloves. Buy yourself a nice new bag instead of getting too pissed about what happened unintentionally!
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X4biddenxLustX

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I did end up mentioning it to my friend only because I was just really angry about the whole thing with my mom and had to vent to her. And things between us are still cool, were actually suppose to hang out this weekend. But really you have to admit that having someone else's blood on your things is kind of gross. I guess its the hypochrondriac sp? in me lol.

I ended up cooling off and apologized to my mom because I now understand that this whole thing has blown out of proportion. I think things ended up getting this far because I've been holding in and not really letting anybody know about my 6 months worth of stress and endless bad luck for this whole family and things keep getting worse. I'm the type that holds things in til one stupid little thing happens and I like blow up! Not healthy, I know but I'm working on it. I really regret this whole situation now since my moms doctor called and gave us some not so nice news and I realize how stupid this all was. Not the best way really to enter the new year I guess but were trying to deal.

Thanks for all your comments!
 

X4biddenxLustX

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06290714: My cousins a nurse but she use to actually be afraid of blood and guts and everything until she ended up working a little bit in a morgue, now nothing phases her lol. Sugeries freak me out! The only ones I can watch and on tv only are c-section deliveries probably because in the end you end up with a screaming wrinkly but very cute baby lol.

I actually wanted to get into doing facials and things of that sort and am looking forward to doing pore extractions for some reason. It's nasty but yet entertaining in a way seeing all the face poop as I like to call it come out. Gross I know lol.
 

caffn8me

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If a purple stain turned bright red with clorox it's unlikely to be blood. alcohol isn't good for removing stains either.

If you do have blood on clothing, the first thing to try is soaking in cold salt water. Trust me, I know this!
 

florabundance

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I wouldn't go nuts about it, but i'd always be a bit like "eww" and, yeh, i'd probably throw out whatever had been exposed to the blood, if cleaning it didn't work. I'm just very squemish..particularly when it comes to blood. I can barely stand my own let alone anyone elses!

But I wouldn't make a big deal of it, you know? Things happen.
 

X4biddenxLustX

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Originally Posted by caffn8me
If a purple stain turned bright red with clorox it's unlikely to be blood. alcohol isn't good for removing stains either.

If you do have blood on clothing, the first thing to try is soaking in cold salt water. Trust me, I know this!


Ugh I wish I would of knew that so I could of tried that!
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I've never heard of using salt for stains before. Sounds gross but for that time of the month I usually just use peroxide on my panties and a little bit of scrubbing with soap and it comes out fine. And if theres any traces of the stain left a few washes in the washing machine will take care of it for sure.
 

X4biddenxLustX

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Originally Posted by florabundance
I wouldn't go nuts about it, but i'd always be a bit like "eww" and, yeh, i'd probably throw out whatever had been exposed to the blood, if cleaning it didn't work. I'm just very squemish..particularly when it comes to blood. I can barely stand my own let alone anyone elses!

But I wouldn't make a big deal of it, you know? Things happen.


I'm squemish too when it comes to blood obviously lol. I probably would of thrown it out either way because it just feels icky having blood period on there even if it was my own.

I've gotten over the situation as something badddd happened today and I realized how dumb this whole thing was compared to how important my relationship with my mother is. Yeah our communication sucks but I shouldn't overreact so much. But at that moment it was just like this is the last thing I need happening to me. I really didn't feel like or can afford to having to spend money on getting a new one when that cash could be spent on something important like bills. My life is just one big whole thing of bad luck these days it just seems
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