What the?

I woke up to a bruise the size of a baseball on the back of my leg. I do bruise really easily, but I knew I didn't do anything that would have caused a bruise like this. After reading and researching, I determined it was a burst blood vessel. I was concerned that it might be a deep vein, so I went to the doctor. Luckily, he said it was just a surface vein.

Somehow the word "just" doesn't make bursting a vein sound any less scary. It's definitely something I need to look out for in the future, and it turns out we have quite the family history of vein issues. However, I got a chance to speak with a lot of my family members about our family history and I got a lot of information (even though a bit scary) that I never would have known had I not had this happen, so something good definitely came out of it!