I took off my earring for a while because it hurt.
2 days later, I see the hole is no more.
So, I went to the not-yet-qualified-surgeon of the house, Lorraine and from her stash of hospital equipments (various sizes of venepuncture needles, alcohol swab, several IV cannulas, a speculum! – dunno what she’s doing with a speculum…) she took out:
It doesn’t really look like this, but this is the coolest one I found.
We looked around for any lidocaine (local anaesthetic) but I think I threw mine away.
So, she gave me this instead
To squeeze during the torture.
Meticulously, she cleaned my ear lobe with an alcohol swab, cleaned the coagulated blood and the tiny procedure began.
Poke, poke, poke.
Blood: drip, drip, drip.
Me: Oh the pain! The pain! – I am exaggerating here. You can tell, right?
The surgeon: OK, keep still. Turn towards the light…uhuh… I can see a tiny hole..
Me again: cringe, squeeze Pooh, frown, grin, laugh (this one was because Lemon started recording us)
Finally, the needle went through. No picture here. Just imagine a 2-3 inch needle poking through my ear lobe. Hey, this can be a new fashion trend! It looked a bit like those industrial piercing.
The surgeon wanted to thread a string through the needle, to prevent the hole from closing again, but it was too difficult a procedure (the thread was too thick). So, we opted for a new earring which hopefully will help in the healing process.
I hope it won’t get infected.
PS. The needles were given by the GP people, so that we can practice taking blood
PPS. We used sterilized needles and all procedures were carried out in a sterilized manner
PPPS. Only qualified crazy ex-hazelnutters can try this at home
