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my name, if you're really interested is marietje....
i have three piercings... in my tongue, at least.... one's
the standard ol' stud... nothing new... but i recently got a
venom pierce... at least that's what we call it around
here.... i don't know what others call it, since i've never
met anyone else with one.... anyway, it's two holes near the
tip on both sides of your tongue... i decided to get both of
these done at once, i only wanted to go through with the
swelling/healing process one more time...
i went to the shop and discussed jewelry, placement, etc.
with my piercer, shane... we picked out three ridiculously
large barbells- 14g 5/8.... it could've been worse- 7/8 or
an inch like most people get... i had to get the extra
barbell for the piercing i already had, just in case...
anyway, on with the piercing....
shane sat me down, i stuck out my tongue and we drew dots on
it, all over the place... after picking the set i liked, my
friend jess took her place holding my hand... moral support,
dig? he clamped my tongue and speared it... no problem,
until he started moving the jewelry through.... i began to
gush blood.... jess said it was some of the thickest,
reddest blood she'd ever seen... and there was a lot of
it.... they didn't tell me i was bleeding right away, i
thought i was drooling... shane clamped me and stabbed my
tongue again.... when he asked jess to wipe my face off a
bit and hold a cup under my chin, i started to get freaked,
but they said there was no problem.... they looked a bit
worried though.... when shane was done tightening the
jewelry, he let me go look in the mirror... after warning me
that i'd bled pretty heavily... the piercings were
beautiful... however, i had blood smeared all over my face,
some running down my neck and my shirt was ruined....
now, the aftermath....
i drank my own blood for nearly 12 hours... my tongue
swelled up quite a bit... when i talked i sounded a lot like
bruce willis imitating a mongoloid in pulp fiction.... the
swelling only lasted a few days, except sometimes it would
swell while i was asleep... i could eat just fine from the
first night, i just couldn't handle extra spicy things....
then there's the tongue vortex... things would get trapped
in the little area between barbells... i had to remove them
with my hands.... very annoying....
a week later weird things started happening in my mouth....
kinda painful things... dents in the roof of my mouth, a
couple hard swollen lumps in my jaw and what looked like
little ditches on the underside of my tongue coming down
from the holes seeping blood.... i had shane take a look, he
said these things happen sometimes, were fairly normal and
not to worry too much... apparently there was just too much
metal in my mouth, so we fixed that.... i downsized to 1/2
inch barbells... after a few days everything went back to
normal, except the divits... those are still there... it's
been about four months and i still have a slight lisp....
do i like it? hell yes i do.... does my boi like it? do i
need to tell you that? do my parents like it? absolutly
not.... mom asks me to take 'those things' out everytime i
see her.... oh well... there's just no pleasing some
people....
marietje@uswest.net
Experience Added 03/11/99