Fitness haiku: Oooh! Nosebleeds! | Health Blog

Applying pressure on the bridge of your nose is preferable to this nosebleed stoppage technique (Photo: AP)

Today?s fitness haiku:

Nosebleeds ook me out.
I?m glad today?s wasn?t long.
And my day went on.

Thanks to a carefully placed Q-tips swab by my sister Susan when I was in kindergarten, I had childhood nosebleeds probably more than most kids. I really don?t much these days (knock wood). But a couple of times in the winter ? despite periodic squirting saline solution in my nose and turning off the portable heater before I go to bed ? I still do.

Twice it?s happened while doing push-ups, for some reason. Maybe it?s a reminder of how odd my push-up stance is and that perhaps I should get professional help.

The other night, it happened when I was eating dinner with a friend. She?s a veteran of nosebleeds, especially after a recent lingering cold. The second I discovered it, she reached into her freezer and pulled out a gizmo called a NoseBudd that fits over the bridge of your nose. Voila. Stoppage.

This rainy Wednesday, moments before I was going to start my run, I got an ominous feeling. Sure enough, blood ensued. I am a basic blood phobe, though (knock wood) I know how to keep from fainting at the sight of it (if I feel so inclined). Blood phobias, by the way, are the only phobia in which you actually pass out, a fact I learned in therapy to get over this.

But I digress. I sat still till it stopped, pinching the bridge of my nose (because I don?t have my own NoseBudd (yet). Then I donned my rain gear and went for a run. It was slower and shorter than I?d intended, but I did it. I got ready for work, also at a slower pace than usual, and made it in just fine.

All this to say ? well, I?m not really sure, other than yes, nosebleeds suck (if you?ll pardon the expression). But they stop eventually, leaving you (OK, me) a bit more cognizant of their possibility of occurrence; a bit more thankful for simple colorless nasal excretions; a bit more grateful for the ability to just go on.

For some official info on nosebleeds, shivers and hiccups, click here to read Nancy Churnin?s story.

Source: http://healthblog.dallasnews.com/2013/01/fitness-haiku-nosebleeds.html/

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