I’ve sort of decided to leave my lobes at 16mm. They can both go up to 18mm very very easily, but with only steel or acrylic jewellery, the skin there gets all skanky, and at 16, with bamboo plugs, all is healthy. So there it stays. The other hole in my left lobe has gone back up to 8mm, as has the conch in the same ear. All is good there.
I also spoke to the guy at Breed316 today. I’d left getting the plug for my tongue for various reasons, but he emailed me, so I called. By next week I should have a 9mm wide, 15mm ID black nylon plug in my mouth, and I should at last be able to talk better. Although my altered speech is perfectly recognisable by those I talk to a lot, others do look at me as if I’m smashed, so maybe having a flesh tunnel in my tongue isn’t that great for longterm wear – not that I intended to stay at 8mm though.
And talking of being smashed, it’s only 10 days until I will have done a whole year completely sober.
A YEAR.
Some of you have no idea how pleased I am to be able to say that…………….