Double tongue

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For a while, I had wanted a second tongue piercing, but I have an incredibly short tongue, and have to talk at work. Oh, ya, the rule of "no tongue piercings", too. (I keep red barbells in the piercings) So, I wanted to have my ears scalpelled from 4ga to 00ga, but the night before I found out my tunnels never came in. Blast! I even booked the day off of work, too. So my night was ruined, so was the next day. Especially when work called me in from noon until eight. But hey! They let me off early, for once in my life. So I went to Artistics to hang out. I had been thinking about getting my tongue done again for a while. I didn't want to get anything done in my ears to let the healing piercings heal, and because I'm getting my conch dermalled at 6ga September 2nd.

So I hung out with everyone at Artistics, and asked Lee if she wanted to pierce my tongue again. "Sure!" "Cool!" "Wait.. we have no barbells!" Blast. I do have a 3/4" in my one vertical earlobe, but thats just a pain to switch everything around. So she sent me across the city to another studio to buy 2 barbells. After getting into an arguement over titanium and nioblium (and NOT ordering my 00ga tunnels.. since I spent more money than I expected, had nothing in my bank account. Oops) with the piercer there, I returned on a bus, being stared at by the man that followed me around one day, I had my barbells! Yay! Lee said she would to autoclave them (they were autoclaved once.. but better safe than sorry) when the batch of tools in the 'clave was finished. They had just been put into the autoclave. So we sat outside and then inside, and talked for an hour. After my sitting around for a while, it was time. Yay! I ate a few of the brownies that I brought for everyone from work (which were later discontinued because of foreign objects being foundin them, yum!), assuming I wouldn't be able to eat later, and went to the back room that I was familiar with.

Lee pulled all the tools out, changed gloves, yadda yadda yadda. Her boyfriend (ex piercer, he's a really good tattoo artist now) was there to assist. Some kid wanted to watch, but Lee didn't want him to. (she hates piercing tongues, I felt bad for making her do mine again) I swished out with yellow Listerine from hell and she dried and marked my tongue, after taking my 5/8"'s barbell out. "What a stupid angle" she commented on the first piercing. I agreed. It goes from the centre at the top, to almost the tip at the bottom. He nicked the webbing, and it hurt like mad, and swelled for 2 weeks. I remembered this, and a shot of nervousness went through me, then away. Lee and her boyfriend, Mike, spent some time inspecting my tongue, and I okay'd the marking. Then the clamps. The horrible, horrible clamps. I have a short tongue, due to the webbing being constricting. If it weren't for the webbing, it wouldn't of hurt so much. But it was there, so it hurt. I started to drool, all over Lee (sorry 'bout that) and she had to get Mike to glove up and hold my lip down (so I got to drool all over him too! yay!) Whoa, did the clamps ever hurt. Lee, of course, was apologizing like crazy to me. She doesn't like to hurt people she knows, she had explained to me earlier. (I found that slightly amusing.. But she always apologizes to me for hurting me.. I pay her to hurt me! heh) so, after a few minutes of the horrible clamps and pain in my tongue, she stepped over the dental chair (which is a horrible chair.. its uncomftorable and hard to work around) and pierced my tongue. It hurt, sure, I felt it pop through the top and bottom, but that was pretty much it. My eyes watered, for some odd reason.

She told me to take a deep breath in, then out, caught the needle and pushed the barbell through (which amazingly butted into her needle fine) and screwed on the bottom ball. By this time my tongue was really starting to hurt, mainly from the pulling on it. I thought she was going to rip it off with the clamps. I continued to drool. She put my 5/8"s barbell back in, and I told her to put the 3/4's in, just in case, since I swelled like mad last time. So I subjected my tongue to more pulling. Once the clamps were off, though (after she screwed on the bottom ball) I was in little pain. She asked if I needed water.. I put my tongue back into my mouth, with the two 3/4" barbells in. "Holy shit!" were the first words I spoke with my completed tongue piercing. Her and Mike laughed. She cleaned everything up, and I hung around for a bit longer.. talking with a lisp because of the barbells.. She apologized for hurting me, I told her it was so much less than the first time. I left a bit later, and later that night had part of a tea biscuit, and a Timbit (my friend ate the other 19 in the time it took me to poke at one.. Bastard) I also had nachoes and cheese.. mmm.

I could eat fairly normally. I just had a lisp. I kept a glass of ice water beside me at work, because after talking for a while, it'd get sore. I'm a cashier. (Ick) The swelling was minimal, probably because of the massive amounts of asprin I pumped into my system during the first 4 days, until I realized I should keep some of it.. I took 3 a day, and my normal 2 tablets of vitamin C. I think I got a low grade asprin addiction throughout the whole process. The swelling was very minimal, I changed my barbell back to the 5/8s on in the first piercing after 3 days, it almost eliminated my lisp. After 5 days it was hardly sore and pretty much healed by now.

Well, now that I've rambled on and on.. Oh, aftercare. I'd use 1/4 original Listerine dilluted with water once or twice a day and salt water or water with lavender oil in it (I couldn't find lavender tea anywhere) after eating and such.

Well, thanks Lee for making this time so much better for me and doing some great work on me (including a rook, vertical earlobe and sternum piercing). Thanks, Mike for letting me drool all over you (mwahaha).

If you want to talk.. just email me. I have too much spare time. If you've read this far on my lovely tongue experience.. Heh.

G'night!