I work as a support worker for the family of a young boy with severe special needs. Am working alone with the father this week as the child is off school due to Easter and mum couldn’t get the time off.
I assisted the father with the school run to collect child’s younger sibling, it’s a two-man job to take the special needs child anywhere as he is big and has no sense of danger, he can and does run off. Anyway, the family have a lovely new Tesla, a few weeks old. I am currently on my period, didn’t think anything of it, I only bleed moderately and had replaced my tampon an hour prior. Yet when we got to the school and I got out of the passenger seat, I noticed the stain on the white seats. I immediately panicked but there was nothing I could do, no wipes in the vicinity and the dad was already getting the older child out of the car so I needed to go with them. I spent the whole time outside the school wondering WTF to do and I couldn’t think of anything.
The younger child immediately comes out and we head back to the car. All I could think to do was quickly lick my finger and wipe the stain as quickly as I could whilst the dad put the school bag in the boot, and hope he didn’t notice. I didn’t get rid of the stain completely but managed to lighten it a bit? Then I sat down and make sure to pull my (thankfully very long) coat down.
I knew the stain would be noticed eventually but I guess was hoping the dad would assume it was from the children and perhaps wouldn’t realise it was from me, though probably wishful thinking. They then dropped me off at home and I could see him watching the seat as I got up so he must’ve noticed me trying to clean it.
I am working with them all week, I am absolutely mortified and don’t know what to do. I feel sick. Just need some moral support.