Periodically Honest
* trigger warning. Those who struggle with maturity, empathy or reality may find this blog hard to process. You wake up knowing something isn’t right. Your abdomen is sore, your back aches and tears are ready at the back of your throat. Reaching down you realise that it is THAT TIME OF THE MONTH!!! Your first job is to stem the immediate flow. With this done you start the unpleasant task of stripping your bed clothes, remaking your bed, putting on washing and, finally immersing yourself in a scalding hot shower to try and remove the icky feeling of waking up in such a way. You are already late. A headache throbs at the edge of your vision and the squeezing of your womb means you are feeling sick so you skip breakfast. It’s 6am when you finally step out of the door having completed a marathon of cleaning, replacing, inserting and padding. You are aware of a slight clamminess that comes from wearing a sanitary towel and an uncomfortable awareness of your own nether regions. A...