I have what appears to be an abnormally huge amount of hair
growing out of my belly button. Seriously, I could make a
wig for an adult racoon with the amount of hair that is
growing from it.
I also have to admit something very embarrassing. The
clumps of hair that I pull out are sometimes wet with
blood, and they smell approximately equivelant to a wedge
of stinky Limburger that has been has been ripening inside
a dead, human body that was pulled from a cesspool behind a
Taco Bell.
I suspect that part of the problem is what you already
suspect: hygiene. You see, about three years ago I moved in
with my elderly parents to help care for them. My mother is
a bit of a looney tune. She believes that the house is going
to fall down due to the steam generated by the hot water
used during a typical shower.
Her fear is so great that neither she nor my father
shower at their house. They signed up at a local gym so
that they could shower there instead, and therefore the
gym will fall down instead of their house. I understand
you are now thinking about the many ways I can allay my
mother's fear regarding steam. Please don't bother
wasting the mental energy.
Back to what's important: me. My theory is this: because I
am showering less my belly button buildup is growing. Where
I would typically shower twice a day, I now may shower every
other day. We have a shower at work, but it is jam-packed
with people who have just finished exercising.
These people do not take kindly to someone who has not
exercised enjoying a hot, lingering shower. The typical
reaction to my showering without exercising first is about
the same as if I was not showering at all, but simply
turning the shower on, and then wearing everyone's dirty
underpants on my head for twenty minutes.
My questions to you are:
Is this hair actually growing from my belly button, or is it
simply collecting there from other places? If is actually
growing from my belly button can I extract the gene that is
prodigiously producing this hair, and market it on late
night television? Are any belly buttons open to the abdomen,
or should they be entirely closed? Is the source of blood
from such an opening? Is this belly button problem something
to be concerned about in general, or may I continue to gross
out my cat with these clumps of stinky hair without concern?
Thanks very much for you help.
Regards, Hana
"Time heals all good intentions"