Holy shit, one of the most intense experiences of my life just happened.

I got a medusa (upper lip, center) piercing on Sunday, and thought everything was fine. Since my teens, I've had everything on my face pierced at least once, minus my tongue - so this was pretty standard I thought. This morning I woke up to swollen lips and a mouth full of blood. I was sitting over a sink putting pressure on my gums with multiple paper towels until it stopped, which didn't happen for a good ten minutes.



I went back to sleep and decided to have it removed today, of course. Piercings should never be *this* swollen or *this bloody*. It got so much worse though.



Although I had minor 5-or-so minute bouts of blood spewing, today was pretty normal. I went to the piercing shop I usually go to, to get it removed. We got the ball on the outside off with massive amounts of pain, but jesus bloody christ when he removed the based that was on the inside of my mouth, I immediately was aspirating on blood. It was worse than a faucet. It was coming out of my nose. It was going on the walls, my shirt, my hands, my face, EVERYWHERE. It looked like I fucking murdered someone and then ate them. I know mouths are insanely vascular but DAMN SON. This is how outbreaks start. Good thing I'm bloodborne-disease-free!



Meanwhile, my guy says "holy fucking shit." - you never want to hear that from someone who has been piercing faces longer than you've been alive. We're grabbing paper towels and shoving them in my face. Meanwhile, the owner of the shop comes into the booth and says "FUCK, DUDE!" and tells me I need to go to the hospital if it doesn't stop in a few minutes.



Luckily after a good 10 minutes of swapping out paper towel after paper towel, and then guaze after gauze, the bleeding stopped. The room looked like a Halloween Horror Nights spectacle, and the guy says to me "I have never seen anything like that before." - turns out the piercing went thru a blood vessel, and just a few days of jostling around my mouth was enough to burst it open. I tipped him well. Very well.



I look like a defeated chipmunk right now as I type this. I'm sipping on a smoothie as part of my 24-hour liquid only regimen which was recommended to me. I feel woozy and the taste of blood feels omni-present.



What are you guys up to?

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