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[kbk]

Oh. Em. Gee. Y'all.

So I had to go to the optician's to check if the smaller frames fit, but I got there halfway through lunchtime, so I was just wandering, and there's a piercing place just down the road. So I have a new hole in my navel.

I've been thinking about it for years, but first I was going to lose some weight first, then I was going to do it with money I'd earned, and blah blah whatevercakes. Today, I cried my eyes out at group, I ate lunch, I got pierced, I picked glasses. And I really have to work, so I'll do that.

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[edithmatilda.livejournal.com]

The feedback I have heard re: aftercare from anyone with a tummyhole ever has been thus:

You know how they tell you to leave the thing in for a decade and not touch or look at it for six months or whatever it is? And you know how in about eight months you will start thinking that surely it has been there long enough and it looks healed and you could maybe put in a different hypoallergenic thing safely? Well, alas in this case they were not being overcautious and if you do not believe them your entire middle will go septic. Oops.

You should have that on the wall or something because you know it now but in many months you may decide it is silly lies. I am basing this on the knowledge that if it were me I would end up with a third of my body green and oozing, and nobody wants that. Well, except people who think giant green slugs are really hot and nobody likes The Twin Dilemma that much.

Incidentally, despite having a horrid tendency to start to heal up in less than a day while they were pierced, several years of no earrings have left one of my ears with a hole still in it. Only one, mind, which doesn't really work especially with an obvious ex-hole in the other. And because my ears were pierced by a fuckwit in the first place it is not even in a good place. Bah. Maybe I shall use it to store fuse wire in case of emergency.

[kbk]

Well, it is seven months until my birthday and I am not going to buy navel jewellery for myself no really even though I saw this dangly thing that was grand and in the argos catalogue years ago there was a fake screw... no, I will not, no really. But, yes, you are right, wall, or background on 'puter, or some such.

And I know my navel is not good for such things as it is smelly. You know how they talk about belly-button fluff and I am all, no, it is belly-button slime. I am using lavender oil which may help (as per snowgrouse) but I do intend to be careful.

Um. The end of the piercing aftercare sheet is "Enjoy your piercing!" which I find... um... hmm. It's not so bad for a navel piercing, but if it were a nipple, or something more 'intimate'...

I have holes in my ears I like them you could be asymmetric if you wished I wear the same earrings all the time even though I have lots of different ones that is how things go also I am not exactly sober oh well *clinnggggggggg*