From: dwatanab@mothra.nts.uci.edu (Dana Watanabe)
Subject: And i thought i new what pain was...
Newsgroups: rec.arts.bodyart
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 24 Dec 92 23:39:36 GMT

I've really been meaning to write somethign for some time now
but really havent had the opportunity
 
i guess i should start with the fact that i decided a few months
maybe more ago that i wanted to get htis piercing

i was going to get my nipple done, but then something changed my
mind, i talked to someone the nite before i did it and said i was
probably going to just chicken out and have them do my nipple
 
my actual plan had been to possibly buy the necesary materials to
do my npple myself... i laugh at that thought now...
theres no way in hell that i think i could actually do that to
myself, i wanted to just cuz i think its such a personal thing
and piercing yourself is the ultimate, but im not ready
 
yet
 
there have been times in the past day since i got it done where
this post would have simply been something along the lines of
ow ow ow ow fuck ow ow ow OW OW OW (some expletive that i havent
created yet but probably will before the week is out) ow ow ow
pain ow pain ow ow, etc..
 
and at other times it would be something along the lines of sheer
delite and yet other times it would have been a very graphic
description of the pain that i was going through

but anyhow.. so im planning on getting this done and finally

i plan on calling them like 2 weeks ahead to make an appt
for some reason i never did make this call until the day before i 
wanted  to  get it done, but they had an appt open  at  just  the 
right time for me so everything was set

i  had to drive through somewhat rush hour traffic to  get  there
adn i fell asleep twice on the way

i  never  have gone there without getting lost and  this  was  no 
xception, so i planned on getting there 30 min early and instead 
was 5-10 min late...
 
i  and  they  didnt have enough change for the  meter  so  i  was
worried about getting a ticket, but oh well...
 
the  person  at the desk was the person who i wanted  to  do  the
piercing,  i didnt know who she was or anythign, but she was  the
one  who watched the apprentice do my tongue last spring,  and  i
liked  the  way  she  tried to get me  relaxed  and  felt  really
comfortable around her
 
i really should have told her this, but oh well.. too late now
but  when  she asked me if i wanted a male or female  piercer,  i
jsut said i wanted the most experienced, knowing it was her
 
actually seemed a little uneasy talking about some of the stuff
for someone who has a forehead pierce it was funny seeing her  be
uncomfortable..  it  was  mostly sexual stuff,  like  getting  an
erection and what effect that has and all that
 
she was also playing with a dog earlier and it was funny cuz  her
personality really didnt match her looks at all
i  mean she looks like she would be much less feminine  for  some
reason  (dont flame me on that, i think y'all understand  what  i
mean,  if ya dont ask for clarification.. im not saying  anything
about the way life should be, just a bizarre perception i had)
anyhow..
 
so she takes me into the room and i get to get about as close  as
i  ever  will to knowing how a woman feels in  stirrups,  it  was
bizarre  and having her tell me to be comfortable while  my  legs
are spread eagle was kidna funny...

we went through the whole process of trying to mark out where  it
was going to go, and it went kinda smoothly
she was really uncomfortable with the whole discussion of me
trying to get a good guess as to what length barbell i would need
this was the part i hadnt expected at all
and i learned a lot staring at my penis measuring it at different 

sizes..  i   didnt  realize how much it grew in  width  not  just 
length.. i also had a very wierd fear of getting the size to big
for  some  really bizarre reason (an accurate measurement
just wasnt happening as she put it) so i think this  barbell  is  a 
little to small.. i dont really know yet
that and the discussion of lopsidedness and symmetrical penis'
got me to think later that she probably know genitalia as well as
any doctor would as far as different shapes and what not go
 
but finally she came in and i gave her my best guestimate
as  to a length and she got a barbell for me and we were  talkign
about other types of piercings (which i think was me trying to
avoid the subject.. for the past week i had been trying not to
think about it which was easy cuz i didnt have an appt,
but on the car trip up there in slow traffic i tried really
hard to keep my mind off of it)
 
finally she said that my big job now was to breathe
i really understand why its a good idea to have someone in
the room with a woman giving birth telling her to breathe
its real easy to forget when your in a lot of pain
 
i started going through the meditation excercises
i used to do in kendo except it felt a little wierd
since lying on my back with my legs spread pretty wide is as
about as far as i think i can get from kneeling on the ground
but im breathing and then she says "1 ... 2.. 3.."
and  quite frankly i dont think ive ever experienced that  amount
of pain in my life before.. i mean, maybe ive never had sex with
the right person, but i have never felt anything so intense in my
life...  i  get  my teeth drilled without  any  type  of  numbing
medication, when ive broken bones, i kinda get up and set them
myself and then if it doesnt feel right i go to a doctor
but the pain really is no big deal
but yesterday ... i really dont know how to describe it
she said that the worst part was the anticipation
HA!
yeah.. sure... she later said that most men prefer
a 12 ga after the ampallang heals cuz 14 ga is really fragile
but a 12 ga needle takes like 2-5 seconds to get through the skin
yeah... i think i would pass out if i went through that

the second or however long it took was long enough
i  couldnt  tell how fast it went cuz first there was  a  lot  of
pain and then a bit later there was more pain and i just
kinda laid there and was in complete other system shock
and  she  reminded  me  to breathe again  cuz  i  had  completely
forgotten all about such minor things as that
and then when i laughed cuz i had forgotten she said
'Yeah thats one of those seeing god moments'
yeah
 
then she went to wrap it up and she folded some kleenex over it
and then went to invert a glove over it and said
"i  always feel really uncomfortable doing that, cuz my  hand  it
over a new pierce and its like..."
 
she  felt uncomfortable??? i dont even know her name and for  the
past  half  hour or so she been fondling my  genitalia  and  just
finished it off by ramming a steel pole through it adn she feels
uncomfortable...
hahahahha
i almost laughed
but wasnt quite at the stage where i could
 
then i left with all this kleenex around me making my penis about
3 times the size it normally is, which made my pants fit a little
uncomfortably
 
after a few hours i took a shower and started cleaning it off
at which point it started bleeding profusely
at first the pink liquid on the floor of the shower
looked just like hibiclens but then when i realized it was a  bit
darker than that, especially the stuff all over my hands..
well it really freaked me out
after washing it off it seemed like it calmed down alot
and  was  no  big deal.. i really couldnt  move  the  barbell  or
anything actually i could just turn it around
but not move it side to side.. i dont know if i was just reacting
to the pain or if it was actually stuck
and quite frankly i really didnt care at the time
 
i wrapped it up again in toilet paper and went to sleep
this morning when i woke up the toilet paper was completely red
and i was really not a happy guy
i  ran  into the bathroom and washed it all off and at  first  it
wasnt  bleeding but then the blood just started pouring all  over
the shower floor
 
i had been soaking my pierce in a little cup and the blood looked
really neat cuz it collected at the bottom and little tiny pieces
would float off and stuff but overall it just looked neat
 
i  cleaned  it as best as i could and then just figured that it
would be best to let it coagulate and not mess with it for awhile
 
this wasnt exactly what she described when she told me what would
happen, but i could say the same thing for my tongue pierce
 
it still hurts a hell of a lot but then again a lot has happened
to it that would cause such pain...
its an interesting experience and im glad i did it
 
at first i really didnt like the way it looked, but
today when it was really clean one time
and the head was kinda swollen, i totally liked it
 
it looks kinda neat right now (well at least last time i checked)
cuz there is dried blood over one of the bells and teh blood is a
really pretty color red.. kinda purplish
 
ive been looking for nailpolish just that color for ages..

i learned alot in the past 24 hours about myself and that was the
point so i guess it was really succesful and i have a nice trophy
for it all
 
hopefully it doesnt get infected and want to fall off soon
 
:)

i used a wierd editor so this maybe a little messy
but happy christmas and x-mas and channukah and soltice 
and all that

and ididnt even get  ticket even though the meter ran out of
time a half hour before i got out :)
--
If we were still going barefoot the world would be a
much softer place.
				   ,
IravethereforeIam Prod.           dana watanabe
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