whining...

[gwendolyngrey]

I feel like I've said this before, but do you think things could go well for any decent length of time for me? Just maybe I could go a couple weeks without something depressing or disgusting happening...maybe? I doubt it. Been in two fender benders since break started. Surely that would be enough, no? No. My right ear (piercing) developed an infection yesterday and swelled up a little, and this morning it hurt like crazy. Horrible. So I cleaned it and over the course of the day it gradually started feeling better. Tonight I went to clean it again, and discovered the swelling was much, much worse. Sometime today or last night it swelled around the back of the earring, and my ear has swollowed half of the scroll back. I took out the other earring just in case it too decided to be nasty (it was pretty much fine though, thank heavens) and with my Dad's help (and the aid of some computer fixing tweezers which were able to grip what's there of the earring back) got the main earring out, but half of the back is in my ear. IN my ear. I used to have horrible nightmares as a child about foriegn objects under my skin. Anyway, we can't possibly get it out with no local anisthetic without causing me horrible pain, and because by the time we got the earring itself out it was 1:30am already we decided I'd go to our doctor first thing tomorrow morning to have him numb up my ear and get the back out. Fortunately with the earring itself out of my ear it doesn't hurt near as much, not at all really. But then I stop to think I have a piece of metal stuck in the back of my right ear and I get all quivery inside. This sucks. And I have to work seven hours tomorrow. Gah.
The weird thing is, I haven't done anything to my earrings since putting them in right after the wedding, which was almost two weeks ago. And suddenly it gets infected...I know that six weeks after getting them pierced was quite soon to be wearing dangly earrings (even though they were posts) and those probably did some damage, making my ears have to heal a bit...but still, almost two weeks since that. Again, gah.
I'll just let the holes close up I think though...and maybe get my ears pierced again in a year or so. Only if I ever do get them pierced again I'm definately getting pure gold and not taking them out for at least two months. This I do solemnly swear.

Comments

[idlewild-grey.livejournal.com]

Thank you...I'm already getting better.

[idlewild-grey.livejournal.com]

Don't infections suck? Yeah, the doctor said it probably had something to do with the mixed metal (ie. cheap) earrings I had, and to get pure silver or gold in the future. And thanks for the link, I hadn't heard of them...good site to know of.

[ktlovely.livejournal.com]

Oh no! That does suck. I'm sure you'll be fine and everything, but still. I can sympathize; when I first took of my piercing studs, one of them had the back stuck on so hard that we had to use pliers to get it off. And my dad being my dad, he found the BIGGEST pliers he could. I thought he was going to take the whole earlobe off!

And sometimes ears are stupid and get spontaneously infected. Or, like someone already said, you might have a small metal allergy. I used to wear a pair of my mom's earrings that would make my ears just in agony after a day at school and since I was in like, third grade, I didn't know about nickel allergies and stuff. Sigh.

I hope you feel better really soon! :)

[idlewild-grey.livejournal.com]

Thanks...I'm feeling much better already, though I have to take antibiotics for the next couple days. And I was really fortunate to have my Dad through this whole thing, he was really calm and level-headed and was actually really gentle when helping me with my ear. I loves him.

[ktlovely.livejournal.com]

Yes, dads are definitely great. :) I'm glad you're feeling better!