8 tbsp HA HA HA
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008Being on the rag again, I decided to sacrifice a pad to science and find out whether, in fact, you do only lose 8 dainty tablespoons of blood.
Pad used: Whisper Wings regular.
# of above already overflowed this month: 3
I coloured some water with grape juice and used a dessert spoon, since I don’t have a tablespoon. There are 1.25 dessert spoons to the tablespoon. The pad absorbed 10 dessert spoons before it overflowed. That’s 8 tablespoons.
So, if the 8 tbsp estimate were correct, the average woman could get through the average period on one average pad.
HA…HAHAH…HAHAHAHA… HAHA…HA… (insert infinite loop here)
Back home, I didn’t have this problem because I used tampons all the time, even at night. But the choice of tampons here is very limited, and the ones available tend to fluff, which seems unhygienic. I also worry about using them for hours on end in the tropics, since it’s easier to catch infections in the heat and humidity here, so I’m too chicken to use them at night. As for overnight pads, they feel like fucking diapers — I don’t see why any grown woman should have to wear such a thing.
Thais apparently use menstrual cups, which are rubber containers you shove up there, and…yeah. I think I’d need Lolrus’s bukkit.
On the upside, I hardly had any downswings in mood this month. But I was busy just before my period, there was the good news of finding the new flat, and I ate chocolate, so all of that might have contributed.
Anyway, I can has Nobel prize for biology now?