Weird tight spot!!

At A Glance Author Matt Fish Contact mfish@risc.usi.edu Studio Claires Location Bloomington Indiana

About 4 months ago (June or so) I decided that I needed to get my ears pierced and that I wanted to stretch them soon after so I popped some Caffeine/Ephedrine pills, and took off for the College Mall in Bloomington Indiana. I am a broke ass so I figured it would be cheaper to get them pierced at the mall instead of going to a piercer.

Well I flopped my scrawny ass up in their chair, and watched people walk by and stare as the lady marked my ears, then asked if where she marked looked good. So I was "yea, its all good". So she proceeded to load the gun and pierce me, no pain whatsoever. I guess I probably should have went to a professional piercer to get my ears pierced but I didn't, and put myself in a greater risk for infection and all the fun stuff, but everything turned out alright, so I was happy.

About 2 months later (Mid-August roughly) I went to Artistic Skin Design also in Bloomington Indiana. This place is the mad shit, its where I got my tattoo and everyone there is cool as hell. Well I went in and talked to the piercer for a while and told him that I wanted to stretch my ears a bit, so we decided on a pair of 12 gauge CBR's. I took them home, and cleaned those suckers up nice. I took my 18 gauge pieces of shit out, and then cleaned the holes very well, and soaked the CBR's in alcohol for a while. I gave one last look in the mirror and then decided to get some balls and go for it, so I took out the triple anti-biotic ointment and lubed up the rings and the holes. I started pushing the first CBR through my left ear, and I felt it go "POP" and then slide through a little then go "POP" again when it was coming out. There was relatively no pain, a little blood, but no pain worth mentioning. I then proceeded to do the right ear, I did it in the same fashion, I cleaned up my ear, lubed the CBR and my ear, and again I heard "POP" "POP" but again, no real pain. The only part that got to me was the sound and the feeling of the flesh tearing only slightly, but I got over it quickly when I looked in the mirror and thought to myself "I am GOD!!" (If you couldn't tell by that last part, I'm not a big believer in God) But anyways, I wiped the blood away and put the balls on and went to bed. I woke up the next morning and my ears were a little sore for obvious reasons, I just shoved a big piece of metal through a little hole. There was some blood on my pillow and on the back of my ear, but nothing big.

A few days later, I discovered a hard spot forming on my left ear, between my lobe and where it attaches to my face. I just figured it was nothing and would go away in a few days, it wasn't causing me any pain or discomfort, it just felt weird so I left it alone but it didn't fix itself. A few weeks later, I decided to make my way down to a 10 gauge, so I picked up another set of CBR's came home, and realized that the ones I just bought are quite a bit bigger than the ones I had in my ears so I got an idea to hang some weights from my ears. I took two paper clips and hung them from the CBR's I had in my ears and then hung a 6 oz. weight from each. I then jumped in the shower thinking the heat would make my ears more pliable, and I think it did. So I got out of the shower, and took out my 12 gauges and cleaned up my ears, and sanitized (To a certain extent) my 10 gauges. I then lubed those suckers up and started pushing them through, they went through fairly easy, but again, there was that sound and the feeling the bugged me, but I got over it again pretty quickly upon looking in the mirror.

Tonight (October 11) I decided to do some investigating on my tight spot that was in my ear. So I took out my CBR, and started pushing on the spot, then I got the same old "POP" sound, and blood rushed to the hole, so I wiped it away, and started pushing again, this time like a geyser puss shot out, it was probably in the top 5 nastiest things I have ever seen come out of my body, but the tight spot went away for the most part, so I stuck my CBR back in and decided to write in to tell about my experience. I just felt my ear, and it is tight again, but this time its probably just blood. So I will leave it alone, and in a few days if its not gone, I'll just have to make a trip to the doctor and get some anti-biotic action goin on to take care of my nasty ass ear. Well that's my story; if anyone has any ideas on how to take care of my infectious ear without making a trip to the doctor, please feel free to email them to me.