My daughter hit a pretty big milestone recently. She wanted her ears pierced for her birthday.
It bought back memories – my mum had been adamant that we couldn’t get our ears pierced. “If god had wanted another hole in our ears he would have given it to us”.
However, for some reason mum said yes when my younger sister asked. So I made her wait a week so I could get mine done first…
For my daughter, the actual event was pretty quick and painless…
Until the infection – when I needed to do a small surgical procedure.
Apparently holding dad’s hand helped. Although the next door neighbours may have wondered what was happening as there was quite a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Withdrawing the earrings was fairly straightforward (subject to some wailing and gnashing). Replacing them and inserting the butterfly on the shank of the earring was, however, delicate, requiring just the right amount of pressure to get it on…
Unfortunately, I didn’t judge this correctly.
As my dad would say, I didn’t feel a thing…
Tough Mother 