Doesn’t Nose The Difference

(Last year, both my mother and my stepfather – at different times of the year – suffered from chronic nosebleeds and ultimately had to get their nasal passages cauterized so they don’t bleed as easily. My best friend knows this. Fast forward to this year, when I have been experiencing a similar rash of nosebleeds. The first one happens very randomly while my friend and I are attending an anime convention, and I am horribly embarrassed but grateful to the attentive con staff. I have a total of five bleeds throughout the weekend, but then don’t have another one for several days. This is perhaps two weeks after the con, and she and I are out to lunch.)

Me: “Good news, I haven’t had a nosebleed in five days.”

Friend: “You had another one?”

Me: “Yeah. Monday night I woke up around two in the morning because my nose was tingling.”

Friend: *very seriously* “Are you going to have to get your nose castrated like your mom?”

(Once I finally stopped laughing, I had to explain the difference between castration and cauterization.)