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Ok ok so I finally got it done.. yeah, my tongue pierced. Shhh! Don't tell my parents yet. =P For about a month now I've been educating myself about tongue piercings, I'm sure I mentioned somewhere before ... well anyway I called up the place, called Absolute Tattoo which is located downtown on the strip. I asked about the pricing and what kind of jewelry is included. $20 and implant surgical steel, both answers made me happy because sometimes the cheaper places don't offer high quality jewelry. ^_^ So I waited for Tony to come home, (I didn't wanna drive myself :P) and we left the apartment. My last meal was the Sourdough Jack combo from Jack in the Box. Mmmm... my favorite. <3 Then we drove to the place.. it was pretty clean and interesting looking. Alot of art was on the walls; alot of tattoo art, everything from dragons, japanese characters, to naked ladies and skeletons. When we got there it was empty, only one big tattooed scary looking guy was in the store. He told us that the piercer would be in within the next hour so Tony and I waited. about 20 mins later he showed up. Nice looking fellow, about as tall as me. He reminded me a little of my cousin Jay. ^_^ He was really friendly and asked me if I really wanted to do this. And I said yes. He helped me fill out the paper work and joked with me about moving to Las Vegas. I was nervous at this point so I needed to use the bathroom. While I was peeing he got the tools together and washed his hands. (thin walls I could hear him because the place was empty) I came out and he told me to swish some mouthwash for 10 seconds. While I was doing that he told me what he was going to do and made sure that I saw him put on a new pair of gloves, and opened the clean piercing tools that have been cleaned by the Autoclave. I smiled and he asked me to sit in the chair. I did and he took a look at my tongue. "You have a small tongue..." He said as he clamped it down. Ouch. This hurt more than the piercing I think... *Lol* Oh his name is Josh by the way. ^_^ "Ok, this might hurt a little, because your tongue is so small I have to stretch it out a bit" Oh great, I was thinking. It hurt a little while he did this.. "Ok take a deep breath and let it out" I did and he jabbed me in the tongue. OUCH... aww come on, everyone said it wouldn't hurt, but it did. BAH maybe I'm just not so tolerant on pain. Then he laughed a little and said "Ok sweetie you're drooling all over the place" I couldn't laugh but I did in my mind.. I could feel big drops of something on my jeans, which I thought was blood, but turned out to be my saliva. I didn't bleed, that was hard to believe. After the piercing was done he sat down and talked about aftercare, what to do, what not to do.. and stuff about eating. He wrote down some jewelry suggestions for after it healed. I remember the first thing I said after it was pierced was, "Thisss tingg isf heavvyyf" Josh was really nice so I gave him a $5 tip. After all that was done we went to the store to buy me some Biotiene, which is a non alcoholic mouth wash that I heard about online. Alot of the websites and even the APP suggested the brand. Got a new tooth brush too, because some sites suggested it as well. I started having this pain in my left jaw... and it creeped to my neck... and then my ear. Tony joked that my brain had messed up and was sending the pain in other places. It was a freaky experience but it went away. ^_^ On the way home my tongue started to hurt a little because I think I was talking too much. So I stopped and took some Advil we got from the store, and it made me feel better. My speech is a little off, and its hard to say some words because the barbell moves and it hurts so I can't say it. =P I hope I can talk better tomorrow, because I have to go to work... OH YEAH DID I MENTION THAT I GOT A JOB.. =P Lane Bryant called me back and offered me a job. Tomorrow should be very interesting. I'm praying that my tongue doesn't swell up to a giant loaf of bread or anything. And the worse thing they could do is tell me that I have to take it out. I'm hoping they'll accept me the way I am, and I can always get a tongue retainer later. (it has flesh colored beads to make it less noticeable) Welp, thats my ultra-new-heidi-experience for ya. I'll let you guys know how it heals up and such. <3 ~Heidi Post a comment in response: |
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