April D • Idaho • 33
After reading "Are you there God it's me Margret" and several other whimsical books about periods, I pictured that my period would be a small, convenient puddle of blood once a month that would be no big deal. Imagine my surprise when I woke up one summer morning to a gigantic, bloody, stainy mess. I had not anticipated such a disaster and I could not believe how messy the whole thing was!
I broke out my maturation kit from school and was amazed to find that the pads I thought were silly big were 100% necessary for maintaining clean panties. I honestly don't remember much more from that first period, but that was the beginning of so much for me!!
