OMG Just leaked period onto a white chair at work

[catgirl1976]

Just been in a meeting in the partners office. Me, Director of OPs and Sales Manager

I;ve got a really heavy period

Sat on a white leather chair

Stood up to leave and there was a bit of blood on the chair.

Walked out with the Sales Manager.

Ops Director and Partner still in there

I am dying of embarassement

What do I do? Do I pretend I haven't noticed or balls it out and go back in with a cloth, apologies and clean it up

Maybe they haven't noticed and will just think it's paint or something?

I want to die I am so fucking embarraseed

U2 sounds like you have an awful lot (literally) to cope with. Hope Cerazette or similar might help if you've not already tried it.

ginny sorry if I sounded a bit harsh re managing periods by age of 45. Tbh I hadn't considered that they can get heavier as well as lighter with age so point taken there. Just was a bit puzzled by that woman as got the impression it had always been that way & thought she could be taking some/more precautions like Mooncup if it was that unpredictable. Don't actually know whether she was already wearing a pad or not though. Mooncup I'm ok with most of the time but do take additional precaution on heaviest days and though supposed to be ok for swimming, and always empty/clean before, the amount of water that gets into it made me decide to go with thick tampon instead. (The bottom of which also gets soaked though, maybe need to work on my pelvic floor)!

Did catgirl just leave it?

Fourarms- I was the same, in the lift back to the car after seeing ds in scbu. One and only time I've flooded.

Happened to me at work, sitting next to my new manager over a brand new chair :-0 found a scarf in my drawer and sat on it to avoid more and grabbed cleaner at end of the day to explain and get her to clean....embarrasing!!

Daftstudentnurse your teacher sounded marvellous.

DoingTheBest like you, we were poor growing up and my mum also used to give me a pack of 10 cheap towels (Why? She was a woman too, she must have known) and I remember tryuing to eke those 10 towels out across a 4 day period - not good. I think I started buying more out of my dinner money (when I had any - come on, violins!).

My periods are definitley heavier with age. I use super towels and tampons, but I still feel dread if I go to anyone's house with an upholstered sofa rather than leather or if I have to get in someone else's car. I keep a scarf in my car to sit on.

I've leaked on my office chair, but it's only me in here. It's left a stain though as it isn't leather

I donate SanPro to the local food bank to put in the parcels because it is expensive and imagining what it would be like to not to be able to afford it makes me cry.

I encourage others to do the same. :)

When I was skint I used to thank god for my Boots points card. I could always pay for Sps with points! In fact I so begrudged paying for them that that is all I spent my Boots points on!!

LilAnnieAmphetamine - that is a good idea. I shall certainly do that from now on!!!

Catgirl et al - in future - I would just breeze in and take the chair - only mutter "just need this a moment" if they look up -they may be too busy chatting. Clean it somewhere private, then bring it back in and dash out quick. If they really want an explanation - oh I spilt something -which is sort of true!!! If they insist on knowing more (why would they???) tell them - they would end up more embarassed than you!!!

I agree, that perimeno can change your periods for the worse.
45 and should have managed it by now is quite an ignorant statement!!

OP, why are you compelled to clean up? You've said there is a cleaner. Why are you going to do any cleaning if you're job is in HR? I'm puzzled.

Why don't you let the cleaners know there was something spilled on a chair in the room, and ask them to give it attention. It's their job after all and they have the equipment to do it safely.

Fwiw, there are always marks and stains on chairs, ime no one ever thinks its blood, just spills.

Daft, your teacher sounded like a lovely lady- lucky you!

I had plain glass in the bottom of my front door...no front garden, just opens straight on to path...I throw all the washing downstairs and then collect it later...DS2 was days old and I was changing him in front of the upstairs window...I noticed 2 couples stop, laughing and pointing at my house...When I finished with my beautiful squiggy newborn I went downstairs to see a perfectly positioned pair of enormous pants complete with enormous bloodstains...there was no disguising what they were...luckily I never saw those people again!
I too bled all through a pale blue skirt but luckily had a long jumper to tie around my waist....

You may see the guy who sat in the chair after you with a bloodstain on his backside tomorrow! Leather chairs are not very absorbent and the blood would take longer to dry out I am guessing.

Don't be embarrassed it happens, just pretend you forgot something go back and wipe

BTW who on earth has white leather!

Whats sanPro

monsters sanpro = sanitary protection ie towels, tampons, mooncup etc.

Oh poor you OP.

fwiw, my DH would think exactly as your DH said - 'Oh poor X, period leak, bummer. Argh, I must act as if I never saw that!'

Ohhh ok thanks

I regularly leaked as a teenager. Mainly due to a bastard male form tutor who wouldn't let anyone go to the loo in lesson time as we were old enough to control our bowels and bladders and go in break time. No way was I telling him, in front of the class, that actually I'd just got my period...