(I apologise for it being such a dark photograph but it was the best of the bunch. I will take another one when it’s a bit lighter! 
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I got an orbital in my left ear to mirror the one I had done in my right ear (in October 2007) – see my “New Piercings” photograph on Flickr^ for a reference.
That’s a grand total of 16 piercings on my ears!
I’ve been trying to get it done since July 2008 but various things came up which prevented me from being able to do it. I finally managed to get it done on Saturday!
It was unusually painful and the piercer and myself ended up playing a kind of tug-o-war game over my ear while I was getting the conch part done, which is probably the reason why my ear is so swollen and bruised looking now.
I think they’re healing okay but they’re pretty swollen and bruised, so I can’t see them very well and I can barely clean the helix piercing because of the swelling!
They don’t hurt at all, which is REALLY WEIRD; normally, you can feel new piercings for a few days but the only time they feel sore is when I clean them or catch them. (Which is why I take an ibuprofen about quarter of an hour before cleaning them – by the time I’ve finished torturing my new holes, the ibuprofen starts to kick in and rids me of the pain and some of the swelling that arises.)
At work today, I kept getting the dreaded question; “Did it hurt?”.
Hmm, let’s see. I had a needle poked through my ear. Twice. Could that POSSIBLY have been a bit on the “ow” side?!
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