tw:menstruation

It was August, the summer before 7th grade. I was staying at my great grandmas house while my mom was at work. All day my stomach had been hurting and I only had one thought, OH GOD MY APPENDIX. All day I curled up watching tv thinking I was going to die. Eventually I went to the bathroom, and there it was. Blood. I couldn’t have been more horrified. I felt like my childhood was over so I layed on the bathroom floor crying. Between sobs I made the embarassing call to my mom at work who drove right over to deliver reinforcements. For years I hated my period and felt like a gross person, but just recently something has changed. Periods are a beautiful thing, life creating beauty from the earth. It wasn’t the end of my childhood, just the beginning of my life as a child, who bleeds every month. :)

submitted by: owl-in-the-city