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First, let me start off by saying that I do not endorse my children putting holes into their bodies! I do make exceptions for ears, but that's about it! Brianna has begged me for facial piercings for quite a while, but I just couldn't let her do it! I did let her get an industrial piercing when she was 16, which I think is pretty cool, but others find quite disturbing.
Anyways, since today is her birthday she decided to go and put a steel rod through her tongue. I tried to scare her out of it by telling her I know dozens of kids whose faces went paralyzed, bled to death, lost their tongues, became sterile, poisoned their hearts, went blind, got brain infections, lost their taste buds, lost their drivers licenses, etc. but all of my scare tactics did not work!! So......I decided to go with her. If my baby was going to die on her 18th birthday I wanted to at least be there to hold her hand! When we arrived Brianna jumped right up on the hospital looking exam table (minus the stir-ups) with her cheerleading section of friends, who were also there to put holes in various places in their bodies. The LPN (?) put a raggedy looking green towel under Breezy's (as her friends call her) chin to catch the drool or blood I suppose. Brianna drank some yellow looking potion from a dixie cup and passed it around to her friends. I asked for some too, but never got any. Anyways, during all this I whipped out my camera to capture the magical moment, and by this time Brianna was starting to get nervous and asked me to stop! I was a little insulted, sheesh I paid for half of this circus show and she's shooing me away!! Okay, okay, out came the pliers and then out came the tongue, and then out came mom right out of the room!! I swear I thought I heard each layer of tongue being pierced, but I'm not sure. I did hand off my camera to another girl so she could capture the blessed event. Shortly after the excitement died down, and Brianna finally put her tongue back into her mouth, she starts to feel dizzy. So dizzy that piercing lady had her lie down, ran out of the room, and came back with some bottled water. Brianna starts really complaining that she didn't feel well, and then I start not feeling so well either. And please note, that I'm not too worried because if she passes out and they have to call an ambulance, or if her tongue falls off, that I did not say it was okay!! She's 18, and if she wants a hole in her tongue then so be it!!
Five minutes pass, and too bad if Brianna's dizzy, because she gets kicked off the table for the next customer. I walk Brianna out to the "waiting room" where she continues to get worse. She tells me she thinks she's going to barf, and I don't see any barf buckets in the near vicinity so I usher Brianna (and Jie Ling) out to the parking lot in the pouring down rain!! Brianna slides down the side of the building and starts puking, while Jie Ling heads for the nearest mud puddle and starts stomping her feet! Most of Brianna's friends have booked it by now (thanks guys) so I guess that left me to clean up the mess. (meanwhile Brianna's last friend Breanne, is in the room getting a hole in her face, and I can't figure out what's taking so long, plus they have the door closed!) I'm thinking man this is a house of horror, or however the saying goes! Anyways, Brianna starts feeling better, and pulls herself up off the cold concrete, while I try and get Jie Ling away from the mud puddle, which does not make her happy! All the while my phone has been ringing, and it's Aimee because I'm late picking her up from soccer. We're all soaked, Breanne finally comes out with her new hole in her bottom lip, and I force Jie Ling into her car seat to go and get Aimee. My day does not stop here and even gets more exciting, but I need to cut this short. Jie Ling has pooped her pants, and Mike has to go take our cat to the vet, cause he accidently cut her while trying to remove some matted hair from her belly. Why would he take scissors to a cat, when he can't see worth a darn. Oh man I'm exhausted, enjoy the pictures. Happy 18th Birthday my Sweet Girl!!