This is a fairly complicated recipe so pay close attention. First you need someone named Mary with a lifelong history of spontaneous normal to severe nosebleeds. Next you need an airport setting with lots of people. Mix in a nice young man from SAS airlines on his break who stopped to offer aid,add a dash of off duty medics and just about when the bleeding is under control throw in three airport police on Segways and don't forget to have someone call the fire dept.! I'm not joking this really happened to me yesterday and believe it or not it gets worse. The security detail wants information before offering aid or anything else so while I'm attempting to answer their questions my nose starts bleeding again...enter the fire dept who proceed with filling out forms asking the same questions that the security people had just asked (yes they are still milling around the scene but don't offer to share the information). Somewhere along the way someone decided I had fallen down and they want to know where else I'm injured,so I explain again it's a nosebleed I get them frequently. Finally with their paperwork satisfied the give me 4 gauze pads and some alcohol wipes,insist I must ride to my gate in a wheelchair and leave. Still by my side is the nice SAS guy who goes even further beyond the call of duty and waits with me until the wheelchair escort arrives. Thankfully I already had my boarding pass and was TSA prechecked otherwise I wouldn't have made my flight as the whole questioning ordeal took over an hour. But hey,I'm home and feeling fine!
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