![]() ![]() I got the post through with only a little stabby fumbling: ouch, ouch, ouch, okay there we go. I was further worried that the post would be shorter than the freshly puffy width it needed to bridge. I was worried that the earring wouldn’t go in: as I mentioned earlier, I’d read that it could be more difficult than with an earlobe piercing. Should I put them in the rubbing alcohol, even if they’re sterile? I mean, they’re unwrapped now, so are they still sterile? For how long? Well, let’s not sit here fretting about it, let’s just pour a little rubbing alcohol into the palm of my hand and give the earrings a quick dip. Like Indiana Jones, I sprang to my room and got a pair of the earrings, which are sterile until unwrapped. Seems to me that we have a plan and it is time to stop dithering and spring into action. I DO HAVE more of those smaller gold balls.ħ. What I wanted originally was SMALLER gold balls, like the ones in my second earlobe piercing.ĥ. I could put the original earring back in, but that’s discouraging and solves nothing.Ĥ. It has to be the kind of earring that goes in from the front.ģ. I am not really a badass in any way, but I have badass aspirations if I can ever stop crying and cringing at everything, and those piercings feel like a step in the right direction. Never mind! Let the piercing heal up! Failed experiment! But I didn’t WANT to. The first solution my panicky brain came up with was to forget the whole thing. But the earring was out, and a new earring had to go in, and no one else was home, and I couldn’t think of anyone else who would be willing to do it even if they’d ALL been home. And the whole thing seemed gross and scary, and I was worried something was going to hurt. And the earring post was SHARP, so I was not inclined to start stabbing it around hopefully. I bent my ear-shell forward and…it was clear I was not going to be able to put an earring in from the back. I didn’t know how that would work, but I know people change their own piercings all the time, so I proceeded on faith. This meant that the earring post needed to go into the piercing from the BACK, and then the stud would get screwed back on. Finally I thought to twist the STUD part of the earring-and it unscrewed. ![]() I chose one of the new earrings, and tried to take the flat backing off of it. Or was that lump already there, and I hadn’t seen it because the earrings was there? It was hard to say. What was not expected was that the ear around the piercing immediately puffed up both front and back: an alarming little lump on both sides. But I got ready, and then I pulled, and the earring came unsnapped as expected. I know how to take out ear-piercing earrings, which snap-lock in place, but the cartilage is so much more rigid than the earlobe, and there was less room to get my fingers into position, and I was nervous it would hurt, and I was nervous I’d do it wrong. I took out the first of the old earrings, which was hard to do. I got everything I’d need: the saline spray, some rubbing alcohol in a soda-bottle cap to sterilize the new earrings and clean the old ones, some little cotton pads to wipe the ear clean. I was nervous about changing them: I’d read that it was more challenging to change a cartilage piercing than an earlobe piercing. ![]() I went home and I braced myself for the unknown and possibly gross. I bought six of them, because they were on a buy-2-get-1-free sale. They recommended flat-backed earrings, which have little discs on the backs instead of the familiar curly nubbin. I think the tipped one must also have been pierced a little crooked, but maybe not, maybe it’s that the cartilage is softer or I sleep more on that side or something.Įither way, I felt uneasy about squashing them like that, and I don’t like how one keeps being tilted, so I went back to the piercing place and asked if there was anything I could do. Every morning when I wake up, the area around the piercings looks a little puffy, and one of the earrings is tipped up diagonally. The only thing I don’t love is that I’ve continued to sleep on my side, which mashes the earrings. It has been awhile since I had my cartilage piercings done: I had the first one done in July of last year, and the second done in August. ![]()
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