I got my tongue pierced! By the time I'm writing this it's already old news though. I've had it for pretty much a month and I'm tempted to say that's already completely healed. This piercing was one I had once believed I'd NEVER get, I have some weird love/hate outlook on tongue piercings, don't know why. Well, a week before school let out for break, I felt the urge to get a piercing as a war marker for surviving my first semester at college. I was toying with either getting my tongue pierced or my septum, but knowing that back home it was really cold, I went for tongue.

Well...I've always had a thing with being different, ever since I was 3. Sometime when I was very young I saw a person with piercings and I'd wanted to get my lips pierced with snake bites ever since. First piercings were my ear lobes which were gunned when I was 9 and didn't know any better. Then I got my second lob holes when I was 11, again gunned, didn't know any better.

A few days ago I went to a D&D meet up with friends because I had nothing better to do. I was really bored and pretty much spent the entire time bugging the hell out of them. At one point I was play wrestling with my friend Josh and...well...someones nail got caught under my dermal, and I found out that it was VERY anchored. It bled...a lot and it still hurts, I'm assuming I'm practically back to square one healing wise. This is something to contemplate for someone thinking about getting dermals, you honestly forget they're there at the wrong times xD

So it came down to the worst option, I had to remove my bottom dermal. It just never anchored and was being a total bitch, plus my allergy to bandaids was starting to get seriously out of hand with it needing to be bandaged all the time. My current plan is to let it heal up and then maybe try again. I have already spoken to my piercer and he says that he will actually re-do the dermal for me for free when I visit during school break. Since taking out the bottom one, my top two are suddenly laying relatively flat. Weird coincidence I suppose.

So for the past 3 weeks or so I've been having a few issues with my dermals, primarily the top and the bottom ones. The middle one is healed for the most part. My bottom one has a small infection I am pretty sure, which is upsetting because it was healing so well. the top has just been refusing to lay flat after the ripping out ordeal, though it too is doing better. I've returned to twice daily SSS and taping them down, which is a pain because it's very hot and the bandaids are falling off from sweating. They are doing better after this past week of hell with them though.

So tonight I finally had a night and my parents jacuzzi to myself, so I did the obvious and decided to take a nice, long, relaxing bath. Well, all was going well until I decided it was almost time to get out and went to scrub myself down. I grabbed a bath sponge and without thinking about it, went on to clean myself. The next thing I know, I feel a very sharp pain between my breasts and look down to see that I managed to catch my bottom dermal THROUGH one of the sponge holes. Apparently this dermal had actually anchored in my skin and began to bleed a little.

Well, last night I took a shower. A normal start to a very not normal evening. As I was toweling myself off, I suddenly felt this sharp pain in my chest region and looked down to see my top microdermal resting in the towel. That's right, the WHOLE dermal had ripped out of my skin. I kind of went into shock for a few seconds, but then I rinsed the dermal off and had a look in the mirror. The hole that the dermal made actually looked more like when a person manages to turn a piercing inside out.

So it has now been 2 weeks since I had the caps changed on my dermals due to reverse rejection and almost 3.5 weeks since I had the three dermals put in. Healing is going well after the minor set back a couple weeks ago. Today however, was somewhat eventful for my center dermal, the cap fell off. I couldn't manage to get the cap back on, and so called Sting body Art, the place that had helped me out before, for some tips. She offered to put it back on for free if I came in, but it's been very stormy here and the ferry to and from my island wasn't running.

So if you have read my previous journal, you know that I finally got my sternum microdermals. Here's an update for those who want to read on how they are doing:

Before I left NYC (where I got the dermals) I apparently had an allergic reaction to the bandaids I was using, this reaction caused the skin to swell so much that the two smaller dermals were sunken down in my skin.

A couple months ago I discovered a new kind of micro-dermal made by the company Biologix. These dermals are an industrial strength bio-plastic instead of metal. I'd always wanted to get some dermals, but I was very hesitant about having a piece of metal "permanently" under my skin since I tend to frequent the hospital often.

A month ago I was heading down to NYC and had a friend try to find a good piercer who would order the dermals I wanted. He succeeded in finding a place, but the dermals didn't arrive on time. Well, I made another trip to NYC and this time they did have my dermals in.