Chapter 12: Checkmate
Girls' menstrual periods always come unexpectedly, and I came near the end of sixth grade.
My mother was still in school, and I was probably not grown up in my mother's eyes, and my mother never told me about it, and I never got it from any books. I didn't think much about seeing blood stains in the staff toilet occasionally, I thought they were seriously ill, and I sympathized with them. So when I was faced with such a problem, I was terrified.
It was a hot summer, and after school, I went to the nearby village to kick the shuttlecock with my classmates, and suddenly a female partner exclaimed, there is blood in your pants!
I lifted my trouser leg and didn't notice any injuries, and I didn't feel any pain in my body, just a slight swelling in my lower abdomen, and I must have rubbed my pants dirty somewhere.
I didn't pay much attention to it and went back to school to get ready to change my pants.
When I found a pair of pants to change, I realized that it was not so simple, not only was the crotch of the pants full of blood, but the buttocks were full of blood, and the top of the pants was also full of blood, and there was blood dripping down...... I was completely stunned by this scene, so I quickly changed into a pair of clean pants and pants, quickly put the dirty clothes in the basin, poured laundry detergent, and quickly ran to the school water tower to wash. The water tower was freshly pumped from the well, and it was so cold that I squatted on the ground and rubbed it vigorously with my hands, washed it and dried it. When I got back to the house and found that the pants I was wearing were stained with blood again, and the pants were also soaked with blood, and the blood continued to flow, I changed the pants and put them in the basin, and put on the only pants and pants left......
I cried and I felt like I might be going to die.
Dad didn't know where to go, I was very scared, I picked up the basin, went to the water tower and turned on the faucet, and watched the water from the faucet flow down, and after a while, the water in the basin was full, it was red water, overflowing the basin, and I felt that my life was like this water overflowing from the basin and flowing into the distance......
I was probably going to die, I sighed, squatted down and scrubbed my underwear vigorously, the water was so cold, I could clearly feel the blood slowly flowing out between my legs, my life was dissipating little by little, thinking that I hadn't been to junior high school, I hadn't been to high school, I hadn't seen the sea yet, even, even ...... I don't have a guy I like yet, and thinking of this, I cried and scrubbed while sobbing......
After washing, go to dry. While drying it, I thought, I don't have any pants to change anyway, I should write a letter to my father, and then lie quietly in bed and wait for death. But what do I write to my father? I was thinking about it, someone gently tapped me on the shoulder, and when I turned around, I found that it was Teacher Xiao Guo, and she looked at me gently and said, "Xiaoyu, are you on a period?"
Period, what is a period? I looked at Mr. Xiao Guo in a daze, and asked with tears on my face.
Teacher Xiao Guo took my hand pityingly, looked at the pants and trousers drying on the clothes pole, and asked me softly: Do you still have clean trousers? I said that there is only one, and she said that you go and get the trousers, and I will wait for you in the office.
I went to Mr. Xiao Guo's office, she took out a paper bag, opened it was a ribbon-like thing, and she gently said to me: Xiaoyu, you have grown up, you have come to menstruation. I was amazed and asked her what her period was, and she replied that every girl has a period when she reaches a certain age, and it is a developmental process. You see, as she spoke, she opened the strap and said it was called a sanitary belt, then took out a roll of toilet paper, folded it in a thick strip, and stuffed it into the elastic of the two horizontal slits of the sanitary belt and fixed it. Carefully taught me how to fold toilet paper, how to stuff it in, and then put it on like this......
She found me a pair of clean pants for me to change into, saying that these pants are too small for me to wear, and you can keep them if you like them when you wear them, and throw them away if you don't like them......
When I came out of Mr. Guo's office, I had a feeling of rebirth, I would not die, I had grown up......
When it got dark, my dad came back to the office, looked at me lying quietly on the bed, and asked me if I was feeling unwell, I opened my mouth, hesitated, and said nothing......
Dad was going to write something and said to let me go to bed early, I closed my eyes, I felt that my stomach began to feel uncomfortable, it was a writhing pain, and after a while, I sweated, and I gritted my teeth and slowly fell asleep......
When my mother came back, I was used to this physiological phenomenon and didn't tell her anything...... The careless mother didn't find anything abnormal, for a girl, such an important watershed has passed like this, and it is Teacher Xiao Guo who accompanied me through this moment, and I am very grateful to her. She plays the dulcimer well and is said to have a handsome husband in the army. Not long after that incident, Teacher Xiao Guo was transferred, and I have never seen her since. Sometimes I think of her, and my heart is full of gratitude......
At that time, books on physiology and hygiene could only be accessed in high school, and without my mother's guidance, I made a serious mistake, that is, I used very cold water to wash things during my menstrual period, and I usually did not pay special attention to it, which made me fall into a disease, that is, menstrual pain.
When I was in junior high school, whenever I had my menstrual period, I had to ask for leave, because the pain made me unable to walk upright, and I would often roll in bed, breaking out in a cold sweat, even if I drank brown sugar water, it didn't help, my menstrual period lasted four days at a time, the first two days were spent in torment, and the fourth article would get better on the third day, and I barely went to class normally.
Later, my mother once took me to see a Chinese medicine doctor, and the doctor said that it was difficult for the child to get rid of this disease, but it would be good if he got married...... Whenever I'm in pain, I hope that maybe it's good to get married...
But when I actually got married, I realized that the pain had not diminished in the slightest......
I once asked an old Chinese medicine doctor to take the pulse, and the old Chinese medicine doctor said that the illness that fell when you were a child will be fine after you give birth.
I was looking forward to having a baby, and when I was done, I found that there was no change at all, and the pain got worse! Every time before her aunt arrived, my ankle would be sore, and then the soreness would spread from my ankle to my knees, and then little by little to the base of my thighs, and then my abdomen would start to swell. The next day, her aunt will come as scheduled, all kinds of torture, and two days later, her aunt will finally have the intention of leaving, and I will be better.....
I can't blame my father, it's not easy for him to be a big man with two children, and he has to be busy with work, and I can't blame my mother, that era was like that, she was angry and tried to get a teacher training for the sake of a better family, and it was really helpless not to be by my side.
Fortunately, when I was 40 years old, I became addicted to moxibustion and cured my own disease......