Venom is not deadly. ;) Well, I am finally getting around to writing my story about my tongue piercing(s). Well it all started in January, 2001. I found the GREAT BME, and decided it was time for me to get a piercing. I asked my Dad if I could get ANYTHING pierced, and the answer was no. So me getting obsessed with piercings, I started getting little rings here and there and put them on my lip or on my ears, just making them LOOK as if they were pierced.(what fun)
At A Glance Author Corey Fedder Contact oconofo@hotmail.com When Six months ago Artist Stupid Robin Studio Alien Ink Location Bullhead City, Arizona So I got bored one night, and I ended up piercing my own tongue web. Then somewhere around February 20th, it migrated out. So that night, I pierced my own Frenum. YAY.
After having a 12g curved barbell in my frenum for about a month, I asked my dad if I could get something pierced.(he didn't know about either of my piercings) and on my birthday he gave me a choice of a tattoo or a piercing. After thinking for a few days, I decided on getting a piercing, but not just one, two in one. Dad said OK. *SWEET*
March 26th, 2001. We went to Alien Ink. I have heard a few good things, plus they were the only shop open. We walk in, everyone in there looks me for a little bit, must have been the blue hair, I get that a lot. The piercer guy Robin asks how he can help me. I said "I'm gonna get my tongue pierced." He says, "Oh thats it?" I said "wait wait wait, I want venoms." He looks at me kinda weird, "what is that?"
OOOHHHH DAMN! He has never done them before. So, I told him to go to www.bmezine.com to get information about venoms. He said ok, come back in a few days.March 29th. 3 days of waiting can kill someone! DAYAMN. We go to the shop, go inside, Robin says "Oh hey, yeah that will be no problem, I just gotta make sure your veins aent in the way." So, he brings me back into the little room, busts out a flashlight and some clamps, and starts looking. He said "ehh, it MIGHT work", so I said, "hell yeah lets do it!"
I paid the man $43 and went back into the room, washed out my mouth with the nastiest mouthwash, that sick ass yellow kind. He is getting the needles ready, and making sure that I see that they are sterile and that he is using different gloves for everything.
He clamps my tongue, left side first, didnt even mark it, but oh well. lol. sticks the needle through, barbell through, tightens. snap crackel pop YAY. lol. He changes gloves as I looked at it in the mirror. Then we do the right side. Clamp, makes sure its even(not too good of a judgement though) Stick the needle through, OWW, I pulled my tongue back a little bit. So I get up, look at it in the mirror, and yeah, its a little crooked. dammit. Oh well, I wash with that nasty fucking mouthwash again. BLAGH! Then he calls in a few girls that work there to see. The look on their faces was WOW. hehe,just like the look on every girls' face that sees it now.
That night, we went to safeway to get some aftercare stuff, and a whole hella-buncha ICE. Ice was my bestfriend for about a week. The next morning, OOHHH MAN! I woke up to a dried puddle of blood on my pillow. I freaked the hell out! I went and looked in the mirror, and my whole tongue was swollen to shit, and dried up blood all over the bastard. I was scared. I cleaned it off with some water, everything looked alright. OK cool, so then I took a shower, and threw on some clothes, went to school. I have never heard so many "WOW!" or "holy shit!" or "OOOWWW!did that hurt?" . I have learned that everyone asks the same damn questions. DID IT HURT? Where did you get it done? And I figured out that saying ALIEN INK is really difficult to say when your tongue is swollen all crazy. But after a few days of trying to eat, I finally got to eat something, wasn't the greatest time eating, but dammit, I got to eat.
I had my normal 14g 5/8 barbells in for a while, then my friend gave me some 14g circular barbells, so I put them in. It was snazzy, they were fun to play with. But I LOST my barbells at school one day! So i was stuck with the damn circular barbells for about 2 months, and that sucked. After about a month, they started getting screwed up, and hurting, so then I finally got some new barbells, some shorter 14g internally threaded barbells. $50 for both. Everything is just peachy now.
After about 4 months from the piercing day,they FINALLY healed. It took a while for the right side to get good, the left is fine, but every once in a while the right side hurts a little bit. Oh well, I absolutley LOVE having Venoms. They are fun :)