Stupid ears.
The Tuesday after my last stretch (like, three days after the stretch), I woke up with a throbbing left ear lobe.
Ear lobe damn near touched my shoulder. SO. SWOLLEN. Gritting my teeth, I got the back o-ring off and took the crescent stretcher out. Gently, I squeezed my ear lobe, so anything inside the hole would come out and ended up with a disgusting mixture of blood and pus trickling down my neck.
Yummy.
Cleaned myself off and put my 1.6mm plug back in; the second you see blood on a fresh stretch, downsize.
I was on holiday at the time and got back yesterday. I didn’t have access to sea salt, so just cleaned it with warm water and left it the hell alone.
Almost two weeks on, the ear’s fine again. Dying to give it another go though…
(It was an infection. I didn’t clean the holes enough and touched them too much. I know what I did wrong and will make sure it won’t happen again.)
