Growing up, I always wanted to be exactly like my mom. I tried to talk like her. I tried dressing like her. I never knew that she was a stripper. I just thought that she was just really young hearted. But none the less I really wanted to be like her. Every move she would make was like an instruction for me. I always wanted my navel pierced. I figured that if my mother had one what was the harm in that?
At A Glance Author anonymous Contact anonymous@bme.anon When Two years ago So one day at school I was thinking about piercing it myself. My friend had done hers on her own with a safety pin in the girls' bathroom at school when she was 11. I figured it had to be pretty simple if she could do it at eleven on her own. So I went down to the corner store with my boyfriend at the time and we got some safety pins. Needless to remind you safety pins are not as sharp as you would think. We tried and tried once a day for about a week. We even had a little routine going where My boyfriend would take me back to the back of the middle school and we would try for about a half of an hour. Trouble was is he did not want to hurt me. So I gave up one day. I walked home from school after our sixth failure ad I took the set of bobby pins with me. I waited about an hour after I got home and them I took a bottle of rubbing alcohol out of the cabinet and I walked hesitantly to my room. I layer down on my bed and stared at my ceiling for what seemed like an hour and finally I got the guts to do it. I got up and grabbed a pen. I marked both the inside and the outside of my bellybutton and went for it. It was so much harder than I thought it would be. It took me about an hour and a half to get it all of the way through. I was happy though. I finally had my bellybutton pierced. The next hurdle was trying to find out how to properly clean it so that it did not get infected. Well the only person I could think of that would know was my mother. And she was very objective to my body being "mutilated" she always said to do as she tells, and not as she does. So I was pretty much helpless. She only had one belly ring and it was in her belly button. So I would have to go to school the next day and find someone with some body jewelry I could borrow and find someone who could tell me how to care for it.
I went to school in a sheer shirt so that everybody could see the shimmer of the safety pin through my shirt, but they would not have to know that it was just a safety pin. I showed my boyfriend and he could not wait until it was healed and he could play with it. I was excited too because I had been working really hard to try and get a flatter stomach so that I could get it done and not be embarrassed. But I still had the lingering care problem. I decided that I would wait until it seemed like a problem and then I would take care of it. So I waited. I kept the safety pin in for about 2 weeks until it got infected and then I thought of putting in an earring. And I did. I wore an earring in it for about 1week. But it was not getting any better. I had to ask my mom. So I asked her as if I was asking for another person. She immediately ripped open the snaps on my new shirt and ripped the earring right out of my bellybutton. The worst part of it all though is that it did not even bleed. I had just let it get so infected that it oozed bright yellow puss everywhere. I ended up having to go to the doctor's so that they could lacerate the sore. I was put on antibiotics and all sorts of little checkups with the doctor occurred within the next few weeks after that, just to make sure that the infection had been fought off. It had. But now I am stuck with a lot of scar tissue and I have to wait a long time before I get my navel pierced. I guess that the professionals won't pierce on top of scar tissue. It just causes a lumpy build of scar tissue.
I guess that the moral of the story kids is to leave all piercing u to the professionals. They are trained and licensed for a reason. And if you do decide to pierce yourself, have all of the correct care information and does lots of research on how to properly take care of your body art.