Blog 72: Piercing gone wrong.

What a week I have had. I had a hard time sleeping this week. After class, my sleepiness and tiredness would kick in but I couldn’t get myself to fall asleep for a nap. I would just lay in bed for, what seemed like, forever. So I would eventually fall asleep around 3 or 4 and wake up for class at 8. So I did get enough sleep to function. I’m just used to sleeping 8+ hours and that’s why I felt so tired. So yesterday, I was planning on trying to go to bed early but that didn’t happen at all. I was about to go to bed, but remembered that I had to clean the piercing I got on the top of my ear. It recently got infected and yesterday the skin decided to grow over my earring. It’s like a barbell earring so the ball behind my ear is the one that got trapped. I then immediately freaked out, started crying, and tried to push it out. I couldn’t so I called my mom and she came up to help me along with my sister Vanessa and my brother Billy. It was 10pm after I got off the phone with my mommy and home is an hour and a half away. When they got to my apartment, my mom tried for a good while to get it out and then Vanessa tried. They then tag-teamed and got the ball to pierce through the infected skin. It was the worst pain that I’ve ever had seeing how it was just a ball ripping my skin open, not a pointy object. And the fact that it took them 2 hours to do so didn’t help ease the pain. After that, they took about 15 minutes trying to unhook the barbell. My ear was swollen so even barely touching it hurt. But all is good! They got it out in two hours and my mom cleaned and medicated it. And since I wasn’t feeling well I decided to go home since I only had one class today and it was review. I’m really thankful that even though they had to get up early, they came to help me and were there for me. We ended up getting home at around 2:30am and my mommy let me sleep in her oh-so-comfy bed. It’s honestly the most comfortable bed I’ve ever slept in. Then when I woke up my mommy made me breakfast. Oh and my piercing has already closed! So guys, make sure if you get piercings you keep an eye on them so you don’t have to go through the same experience. I’m so glad to have it out and take it as a learning experience.