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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / December 2005Egads!
I'm gone for the day and came home to 162 posts and an updated Holiday Card list! It's going to take me a while to catch up!! Just had to let you know, though, that after 54 years I finally got up the courage to have my ears pierced!!! LOL! My granddaughters shamed me into it - the oldest had her navel pierced earlier this year (don't ask me to describe that as was told to me - I'm still shuddering)!!!!!!!! I'll try to catch up in the morning - in the meantime, purrs to all who need them (heck, purrs to those who don't, too). Hugs, CatNipped > I'm gone for the day and came home to 162 posts and an updated Holiday Card > list! It's going to take me a while to catch up!! [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > CatNipped Congratulations on your holey ears. I think I was in my 40's when I had mine done. Believe it or not, it was my Dad who talked me (and my mother and sister) into it. He wanted to give us earrings, but he only liked the pierced ear kind. Joy > Congratulations on your holey ears. I think I was in my 40's when I had > mine done. Believe it or not, it was my Dad who talked me (and my mother > and sister) into it. He wanted to give us earrings, but he only liked the > pierced ear kind. I had mine done as a teen. No one it my family had pierced ears, and they were extremely uncommon in my community, but it was becoming popular with the younger crowd, and I really wanted it done. My father was quite opposed at first. He was quite the outdoorsman, and told me the earrings might get caught on branches when I was hiking in the woods. <G> My mother had her doubts, but helped me persuade my father, as long as I got a nurse friend of hers to do it for me. She'd heard horror stories about unsanitary practices by teens who pierced their own ears. Earring are still the only jewellry I wear regularly.  SignatureCheryl > I'm gone for the day and came home to 162 posts and an updated > Holiday Card list! It's going to take me a while to catch up!! [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > CatNipped When we were in Thailand, Mom and & I went to get our ears pierced. She had hers done first to show me there was nothing to it. Excuse me, are they injecting your earlobes with something from a syringe?! I wasn't bothered by the idea of them piercing my ears, but no way were they going to give me a shot! I freaked and refused. Mom got hers done, I didn't. A few years later, I pierced my own ears. Isn't that silly? I got some of those 'self-piercing earrings'. Don't know if they still sell them or not. 14kt gold rings with a point on the front end and a loop on the back. You put them on, squeeze them a little tighter each day, swabbing with rubbing alcohol, until they finally go through the earlobe. It was supposed to take two weeks. I got impatient, froze my earlobes with ice cubes and pushed the pointed end through. And here I was afraid of a little shot in my earlobes LOL I still have pierced ears. Mom doesn't; she let hers close up. You should see all the fantastic pierced earrings she has! Jill Hey, those piercing guns they use now are great! I really dislike inflicting pain on myself but they did it so fast I hardly had time to wail! But, oh man, at a jewelery store in the mall this mom was making her little girl...maybe 4 or 5...have her ears pierced and she was kicking and screaming up a storm, but the mom just told the clerks to go ahead. You could see they didn't want to. I left! Poor kid. My cuz was in her teens when she got both ears pierced all the way up and around the outside...in the cartiledge. NOW, married, with kids, envolved in her church...she really regrets it. Those holes don't close up. PatM >Hey, those piercing guns they use now are great! I really dislike >inflicting pain on myself but they did it so fast I hardly had time to [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > >PatM Maybe not all the way, but if they are not used, they nearly do, and become virtually invisible. I know all about it. ;) Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com Make Levees, Not War > Hey, those piercing guns they use now are great! I really dislike > inflicting pain on myself but they did it so fast I hardly had time to > wail! But, oh man, at a jewelery store in the mall this mom was making > her little girl...maybe 4 or 5...have her ears pierced and she was > kicking and screaming up a storm, but the mom just told the clerks to > go ahead. You could see they didn't want to. I left! Poor kid. There was a time when many cultures (Mexican, for one) had their girl babies' ears pierced at birth (with tiny gold studs inserted). It really DOESN'T hurt - maybe a little discomfort - even when you're an adult, but why terrify your kid, if she sees it as a frightening experience? (Unlike vaccinations, ear-piercing is hardly one of life's necessities!) >> Hey, those piercing guns they use now are great! I really dislike >> inflicting pain on myself but they did it so fast I hardly had time to [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >kid, if she sees it as a frightening experience? (Unlike >vaccinations, ear-piercing is hardly one of life's necessities!) Says you!! ;) My mother is of Italian extraction, and all her female relatives had their ears done as tiny babies. Having pierced ears was just part of the culture. You could see the older ladies ears were all stretched out from the heavy gold earrings they had worn throughout their married lives. My grandmother staunchly refused to have my mom's ears done as a baby or child, as she didn't want mom to look like what was then called "a greenhorn." Of course, my mom went ahead and had them done herself as soon as she could get away with it. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com Make Levees, Not War > > Hey, those piercing guns they use now are great! I really dislike > > inflicting pain on myself but they did it so fast I hardly had time to [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > kid, if she sees it as a frightening experience? (Unlike > vaccinations, ear-piercing is hardly one of life's necessities!) I thought it hurt. Not very much, or for very long, but it did hurt. I certainly wouldn't inflict it on a child who didn't want it. Joy > Hey, those piercing guns they use now are great! I really dislike > inflicting pain on myself but they did it so fast I hardly had time to [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > PatM My son got his ear pierced when he was about 7 or 8 (wanted to look like his dad!). Its a good thing we only wanted one done because there's no way he would have let the clerk near him after the first one went in! I think everyone in the mall could hear the screams! Fi >> I'm gone for the day and came home to 162 posts and an updated >> Holiday Card list! It's going to take me a while to catch up!! [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > some of those 'self-piercing earrings'. Don't know if they still > sell them or not. 14kt gold rings with a point on the front end and a > loop on the back. You put them on, squeeze them a little tighter > each day, swabbing with rubbing alcohol, until they finally go [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Jill I had mine done with a little stapler type thing when I was 8 in Germany. The earring is in the stapler and they just stick them in. I wanted them when I was 7 because my best friend had them but my parents made me wait a year. When I was a teenager, I wanted 2nd holes and decided to do it myself. I froze my ears with ice cubes and stuck a pin through. I pulled the pin out to put the earring in and a tiny bead of blood came out. I promptly proceeded to pass out and hit my head on the bathroom door. My mom came rushing in. Later, she told me not to do that, she would take me to the drugstore if I wanted more earrings. I ended up getting one at the top of my ear, in the cartillege part when I was 17. It didn't last more than a couple of years because the back of the earring dug into my skull when I was sleeping and caused a permanent dent. I let the hole grow over but can still feel the hole in the cartillege under the skin. Creepy :-( -- Britta "There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." -- Unknown Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album > Just had to let you know, though, that after 54 years I finally got up the > courage to have my ears pierced!!! LOL! My granddaughters shamed me into > it - the oldest had her navel pierced earlier this year (don't ask me to > describe that as was told to me - I'm still shuddering)!!!!!!!! My ears were pierced when I was six as my mother was becoming concerned that strangers were constantly mistaking me for a boy. Earrings did nothing to correct the misconception, either. I passed for a boy until fifth grade when I grew my hair long. --Fil now wearing two rings in my upper left ear and one in my nose in addition to those initial piercings >I'm gone for the day and came home to 162 posts and an updated Holiday Card >list! It's going to take me a while to catch up!! [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >it - the oldest had her navel pierced earlier this year (don't ask me to >describe that as was told to me - I'm still shuddering)!!!!!!!! And now you've opened up a whole new world of present-giving to those around you ... I had mine done when I was 13 as a birthday present; the beautician sprayed some freezer stuff on the lobe, and then pierced it. Except it was a hot summer, and my ear didn't stay frozen for more than a few seconds :-( I had them done for a second time when I was about 17, this time with the piercing gun which was much faster and relatively painless. And my mother wasn't happy. As far as she was concerned, multiple pierced ears meant I was turning into some kind of punk rocker, which meant I would end up taking drugs in a scuzzy basement somewhere by the time I was 18. Why, oh why, couldn't I be like my friend Ann who always wore skirts instead of jeans and always looked so ladylike? You've guessed it - ladylike involved Ann having multiple pierced ears. I still have both holes in each lobe, although I do tend towards only wearing the one pair nowadays. I think I shall dig out a pair of studs and wear two today though, in a fit of rebellion. SignatureCathi > I'm gone for the day and came home to 162 posts and an updated Holiday > Card [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > CatNipped Well Go You! I did mine when I was 14. I couldn't get up the courage to do the second one so I think I walked around like Mr. Clean for three days getting up the courage to do it. My Mom had heart failure when she discovered what I had done and said I couldn't wear earrings until I was 16 while mumbling about Ubangies and next I'd be piercing my nose etc. Of course, I wore earrings at school and took them out at home until I was 16. Funny thing was Mom eventually asked my sister and I to do hers because she was sick of losing clip- on earrings. W |
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