Ear Piercing #1 10/15/2007
Well today was ear piercing day for Littlest Lethalu Teresa, I'd fought against this for quite some time now knowing that it was hopeless as this is a very important Sri Lankan cultural event for a little girl, usually done at about 3 months old.
We took Little Lethalu to the local Pharmacy where they do the ear piercing using what looks a lot like an air compressor hand gun but with no pneumatics involved, just hand strength to force the earring post through the earlobe. They load the post into the little gun and hold it against the ear then pull the trigger forcing the post forward and through. It wasn't a pleasant experience for me, Chandra said she thought I was going to start crying! As for Littlest Lethalu, well it hurt but she was more upset with a stranger turning her head this way and that way and messing with her ear then the actual piercing! Boy did she have a hissy fit over him!, really let all in the Pharmacy know that she was not the least bit pleased about him at all!
And of course nothing goes as it should first time around, the guy got one piercing to low, so that post will need to come out and the hole heal and then in a month or so we'll take her back and get the ear pierced at the proper place.
In Sri Lanka they would have thrown a big party for Little Lethalu with all the family getting together to celebrate the ear piercing but that will have to wait until this Xmas vacation time when we'll be in Sri Lanka, we plan on having a big party one day there to celebrate everything we missed during the year, all the birthdays, the ear piercing, and whatever else.
We took Little Lethalu to the local Pharmacy where they do the ear piercing using what looks a lot like an air compressor hand gun but with no pneumatics involved, just hand strength to force the earring post through the earlobe. They load the post into the little gun and hold it against the ear then pull the trigger forcing the post forward and through. It wasn't a pleasant experience for me, Chandra said she thought I was going to start crying! As for Littlest Lethalu, well it hurt but she was more upset with a stranger turning her head this way and that way and messing with her ear then the actual piercing! Boy did she have a hissy fit over him!, really let all in the Pharmacy know that she was not the least bit pleased about him at all!
And of course nothing goes as it should first time around, the guy got one piercing to low, so that post will need to come out and the hole heal and then in a month or so we'll take her back and get the ear pierced at the proper place.
In Sri Lanka they would have thrown a big party for Little Lethalu with all the family getting together to celebrate the ear piercing but that will have to wait until this Xmas vacation time when we'll be in Sri Lanka, we plan on having a big party one day there to celebrate everything we missed during the year, all the birthdays, the ear piercing, and whatever else.
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