So, I’ve been battling the flu, along with the delightful combo of an ear infection, nausea, and headaches. For the first time in forever, I decided to treat myself to a nice, relaxing soak in the tub.
I dug out a couple of old bath bombs that had been collecting dust in the back of my bathroom cupboard for years (I usually shower, not bathe). I picked what I thought was a glittery peach one—sounds nice, right? Wrong. To my absolute horror (and my husband’s), this “peach glitter bath bomb” was neither peach nor glittery. It turned the water into the deepest, blood-red shade imaginable.
I got in anyway because, flu. Unfortunately, I ended up falling asleep in the tub. Apparently, I’m a shallow breather, so when my husband came in to check on me, he thought the worst. With my back to the door and my hair draped down, I looked like I was face-down in bloody water.
Now, I’m a very, VERY heavy sleeper. We’re talking 20-morning-alarms heavy. My husband tried shaking my leg—nothing. He screamed—still nothing. And to make things worse, my skin felt “ice cold” (thanks, flu). Cue full-on panic.
He yelled for my brother-in-law, who came running. My husband, now frantic, grabbed me to pull me up. Apparently, this dramatic gesture caused my head to dip underwater for a second, which, thank God, woke me up because I got water in my nose.
So there I am, disoriented and confused, facing my sobbing husband and my BIL thanking the heavens. Meanwhile, my husband is trying to figure out where all the “blood” is coming from.
And as if the situation wasn’t bad enough, I’d been asleep so long that the bubbles had disappeared. I was completely exposed, and now I had an audience. I shouted at them to get out, stood up, and immediately showered off the bath bomb disaster.
Safe to say, I’m done with baths. Showers only from now on. And I’m definitely avoiding my brother-in-law for the rest of eternity.
TL;DR
Took a bath with a “peach” bath bomb that made the water look like blood. Fell asleep, woke up to my husband and BIL grieving because they thought I had drowned. Bubbles gone, I was exposed. Never again.
