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Piercing Emergency!!!
Sep. 12th, 2003 09:31 amOK...I should have had all ( my piercings )
checked when I went in to get the bead put in a few months ago, but I didn't. So last night at dinner, R was asking me if I had any industrials, and I was explaining the snug, when the bead felt loose. I turned it the wrong way, and it came out. The bathroom at Barcelona has the mirror hung at my chin height behind a 2 foot counter, so I had no luck with getting the bead back in (I suspected the threads were stripped anyway.)
So, I got it in eventually once I was home, and went to bed.
Woke up this morning with the barbell dangling out of the front of my ear, the bead gone, and the threads from it still in the barbell. So the next 20 minutes was spent frantically, with tweezers and a dental mirror, trying to get the thing to go either in or out of my head, and to get something in the second hole. I could *not* find the exit hole in the back of my ear for the outer piercing, and kind of panicked that it closed. Then I realized that it's right beside the other hole. And finally understood, 6 years later, why it took an hour for my piercer to thread the jewelry through initially. (Which is also why the second one is still only half complete.)
So right now, here I sit, with my barbell dangling out the back of my ear in the inner piercing, and a regular old mall piercing stud threaded through the outer hole, and a whole bunch of medical tape in my purse to keep them in there during the Rodney Yee workshop this evening, since there's no way I'll be able to get to Piercology before then. I have a big gap in the afternoon tomorrow between workshop sessions, so I guess that's what I'll be doing!
I really hope that they can get the jewelry in. This is my favorite piercing and I do *not* want to lose it! It was by far the most painful thing I had done, because of the fact that it's two needle punches, and then it was just so much manipulation of the tissue immediatley after, that the endorphins were way gone by the time we we were half done with the jewelry insertion. Plus, I've never seen another one in person.
checked when I went in to get the bead put in a few months ago, but I didn't. So last night at dinner, R was asking me if I had any industrials, and I was explaining the snug, when the bead felt loose. I turned it the wrong way, and it came out. The bathroom at Barcelona has the mirror hung at my chin height behind a 2 foot counter, so I had no luck with getting the bead back in (I suspected the threads were stripped anyway.)
So, I got it in eventually once I was home, and went to bed.
Woke up this morning with the barbell dangling out of the front of my ear, the bead gone, and the threads from it still in the barbell. So the next 20 minutes was spent frantically, with tweezers and a dental mirror, trying to get the thing to go either in or out of my head, and to get something in the second hole. I could *not* find the exit hole in the back of my ear for the outer piercing, and kind of panicked that it closed. Then I realized that it's right beside the other hole. And finally understood, 6 years later, why it took an hour for my piercer to thread the jewelry through initially. (Which is also why the second one is still only half complete.)
So right now, here I sit, with my barbell dangling out the back of my ear in the inner piercing, and a regular old mall piercing stud threaded through the outer hole, and a whole bunch of medical tape in my purse to keep them in there during the Rodney Yee workshop this evening, since there's no way I'll be able to get to Piercology before then. I have a big gap in the afternoon tomorrow between workshop sessions, so I guess that's what I'll be doing!
I really hope that they can get the jewelry in. This is my favorite piercing and I do *not* want to lose it! It was by far the most painful thing I had done, because of the fact that it's two needle punches, and then it was just so much manipulation of the tissue immediatley after, that the endorphins were way gone by the time we we were half done with the jewelry insertion. Plus, I've never seen another one in person.
