For every piercing I have, there is a story behind it. Most of them are not happy stories. For example, when my Grandmother Maxine passed away, I got my bridge pierced. A couple of days ago, something happened between me and the one person I never imagined would do anything to hurt me. The details are not important to any of you, just suffice to know that it was enough to make my heart numb and my mind completely electrified.
At A Glance Author AdamoMortus Contact xandross143@hotmail.com IAM AdamoMortus When It just happened Artist Luis Garcia Studio No Ka Oi Tiki Tattoo and Piercing Location Philadelphia, PA I have been waiting to do a madison for years now. But, I never had anything happen that I thought would warrant the piercing, much less a piercer that I trusted enough to do it. Well, as fate and time will have it, my relationship has grown with a piercer I trust, and something painful enough to warrant this piercing has happened.
I have been loosing sleep steadily over the last few months over a rather asinine, yet, painful subject. The sleep finally ended three nights ago. Up until this point, I had been clenching my jaw to the point of having a hard time sleeping. Now it was a combination of my mind not shutting off, clenching of my jaws and an acrid sensation in my stomach. So, as seconds turned to minutes and minutes slowly into hours: I decided to go and have the piercing done. I watched Jackie sleep for the remainder of the early morning. I listened to the city wake up in its clunking annoying fashion. I listened to children scream in the neighborhood park. It was one of those mornings I was glad that our neighbor the carpenter wasn't up and using power tools. The sun light never creeped up the wall that morning really, it was a very overcast start of a day. Hours later, Jackie's alarm clock went off and we were able to start the day. As soon as I was able to go down and talk to Lui s, I did.
He checked my throat and decided that it should be a vertical madison. We all ate lunch and smoked cigarettes. Luis told me to come up stairs. I got Jackie to come and take pictures. (She was slightly aprehensive as to how it would look)
After laughing about some of my more horrid tattoos on my back, Luis whipped out a pen and drew in bush, turds, and giant nipples on my mermaid. We all three giggled about that for a moment. He marked my throat, I checked it and he told me to lay down in the chair.
It was truly not that painful. I enjoyed the sensation of the needle running between layers of skin. The only part that actually hurt was when the needle popped out the bottom. I could feel a strange vibration in my sternum, well, actually it was a bit more like a tremble. When Luis slipped the jewelry in, that was a bit uncomfortable. Though as far as surface piercings go, I think he did a great job on the insertion. My nape was a whole lot more uncomfortable. In all, I must say that I felt a huge rush as the last few months of pain dropped away.
On a funnier note, when I stood up out of the chair to look at the piercing, Luis noticed that the marking he did on my back was pressed on the nice white chair. A few rounded turd drops with the word "turds" next to them smiled back at him as he soft scrubbed them off. I guess it really wouldn't be as funny if he wasn't able to get them off.
In Conclusion:
I can now sleep again. Forgiveness has become possible and where I can't forget everything that has happened, I can let it all go. The tenseness in my jaw is gone. I am not sitting around contemplating my anger, I feel productive.
I want to thank Luis for being a good friend, and a true piercer.
I am glad that Trisha was able to sit in and watch a surface piercing be done. (Props: She is possibly going to be a new piercer at No Ka Oi, she is "guest spotting" until she finds out.
I want Jackie to know, that I will love her forever and our pact is sealed. I am sorry about everything, as I know you are.
Jackie took several good photos of the piercing procedure. I feel they fit with this experience because in each picture it is as if they are frames of a film. Calmness, pain, relief and happiness are apparent. A certain part of my chemistry hates to let anyone see me in pain, because I have always taken it so well. But, as the case unfolds, I have decided that is my favorite picture of them all. They are posted on my IAM page.