The temptation to write something gross and snide about nose bleed medication — perhaps with a passing aside to the Beavis and Butthead method of nose bleed prevention — is strong, but the story of how Steve Riedle came up with NoseBudd — a specifically-designed ice pack for hemophiliacs — is worthy of respect.
A hemophiliac himself, Riedle’s three brothers died of bleed outs as children, and the disorder prevented him from keeping a proper job. While shoveling snow as an adult, Riedle’s nose began to bleed, and while bunching a snowball to the bridge of his nose, he had the inspiration to invent an ice pack that specifically targeted nosebleeds.
It’s not exactly some amazing insight that cold stops nose bleeds. But it appears Riedle’s project really works — a BBG reader specifically wrote in to kudos the product — and it’s a reminder that just as simple problems that most of us take frivolously can end people’s lives, incremental revisions of simple, existing applications can save them.
Nose Budd [Official Site]
Cold may stop nosebleeds, but you’re going to have a hard time finding that stuff fast when you’ve got a real gusher on your hands.
Cram a kleenex or bend a finger and use your knuckle in between your upper lip and your teeth. If you stick your tongue up there you can feel a little fleshy bit up there. Cram something up on that area as hard as you can and apply pressure up towards your nose. Even if it hurts. This will stop any nosebleed instantly.
Those are pretty awesome. I am not a hemophiliac, but when I was a kid I used to get a lot of spontaneous nosebleeds, and those would have been awesome to have.
So is “kudos” now not only a noun but also a perfectly cromulent verb?
“To kudos”? Sorry – I’m in the discromulent camp here.
How would the third person be written? Kudoses? Kudosses? The past participle? Kudosed? Kudossed? (Kudoseratified, if GW Bush, perhaps?)
Perhaps a BBG reader specifically wrote in to give kudos to the product or even to simply praise it.
/end pedantry.
“To Kudo” works for me. So does “She Kudos.”
Not sure about past participle. “She kudosed the iPhone”?
i am a hemophiliac ! and i use this all the time! bleeders rule!
i waited a few days to thank you for featuring
my nosebudd ice pack for nosebleeds to give you
a better thought out reply. For a person with
a clotting disorder, growing up was hell. Starting out completely normal and with healthy
knees and other joints only to have them chipped away to severe arthritis was an ever attempt to come to terms with disability. Then at 17 years old, watch my 19 year old brother die from a brain bleed almost was too much to take. To make a sad story short, only a few years ago I was a torture soul. 18 years ago I went with what I was good at and gave inventing a try. Nothing I made really had a chance to sell but I learned something from every try. Then with a frequent
nosebleed problem and some snow, the idea for Nosebudd was born.
Sense then with the success of nosebudd and
meeting many others so afflicted, and hearing how much my invention helped stop their bleeding noses. slowly and for the first time sense I can remember I began to feel all that pain was worth surviving.
Reading your article is a part of that healing and helps the success of Nosebudd too. So I say again, Thank You.
Sincerely, Steve Riedle
“The temptation to write something gross and snide about nose bleed medication… is strong, but the story of how Steve Riedle came up with NoseBudd… is worthy of respect…”
What a great story of courage and inventiveness.
Bless you for resisting temptation, Brownlee.
Just don’t let it happen again.
Nosebudd inventor here,
I have a youtube video for nosebudd and
the story line is a funnier punch in the nose type
thing. If anyone has a funny story about a nosebleed I would like to read it.
PS, Brownlee sock it to me, I can take it.
Steve Riedle