Hey, umm…what’s wrong with your ear?
My ear is infected again…the piercing on the top of my right ear just does not want to heal. It’s pretty gross, my ear is swollen and red and weeping. I guess my body just doesn’t take well to piercings, the one in my ear is a reoccurring problem, my tongue got infected and put me on a course of antibiotics, and I had to pierce my belly twice because it rejected and left me with some nasty scar tissue. While I have retired from the piercing game, sometimes I just feel like taking them all out.The problem with having piercings and anyone who has one knows this, is the ‘like did it hurt?’ question. Now I have to admit it, I am guilty of asking this myself. I was too caught up in the moment and before I knew it the words just came flooding out. As soon as I said it I knew I had committed the ultimate piercing sin. The question in itself is stupid; it’s like asking someone with a hangnail if it hurts.
There’s only one thing that fires me up more than people asking if piercings hurt, the people that say they in fact DIDN’T hurt. Oh please, spare me. Unless you have no feeling in that area or were inebriated at the time, your piercing hurt, I don’t care how much you smugly insist that you ‘didn’t feel a thing’. I know that everyone has different pain thresholds and whatnot, but I can sure as hell say that shoving a piece of metal through your skin certainly doesn’t tickle. By saying that the shoving of the metal didn’t hurt doesn’t make you look tough or hardcore, it just makes you look stupid.
To some degree ALL piercings hurt, whether the pain only lasted for a second or you’ve forgotten about the event, and thus the pain. It’s time to get over yourself people and admit the facts…or maybe it’s just me.
posted by Ria @ 1:06 pm
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