Eeeeeew, Gross! July 19, 2005
I got my belly button pierced right after I graduated from high school. That mother fucker hurt like hell, but that’s so not the point of this post. I liked my belly ring, but after we officially decided to start trying to conceive, I decided to take it out. Of course I figured that I’d have a growing belly in a matter of months. Pretty funny now.
Sometime after I took out the ring I developed a totally irrational yet very powerful aversion to having my belly button touched. Don’t ask my why, but I cannot stand to have anyone near my belly button. I can’t even stand to touch it. I know, it’s just another example of how freakish I am.
The holes from my belly ring never closed up all the way. Over the years, the top hole developed a patina. Ok, it wasn’t a patina, it’s just my way of saying it looked kinda gross in there. There was nothing I was willing to do about it though. I know, totally repulsive, but I just couldn’t do it.
This weekend, over 3.5 years after I took my ring out, I finally let my husband have at my gross belly holes. To say it was an anxiety filled experience would be an understatement. There were tweezers involved, people. Tweezers! I was in tears, practically hyperventilating, while my husband played surgeon. This is what he pulled out of my belly button ring hole:
How scary is that? Dirt or whatever had basically congealed in there after all of this time. It’s out now, though. Thank goodness that’s over. I never, ever want to go through that hell again.
Maybe it was a good thing in a way, though. I seem to have let out all of my anxiety while going through the belly button experience, so now there’s none left to plague my IVF cycle. It’s still disgusting, though.
- Posted in : various other ramblings
- Author : amanda
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Um, eeeew!
Good luck on retrieval!
EEEEEWWWWW!
If my stomach pudge wasn’t enough to convince me never to have a belly ring, this just did it once and for all.
disgusting - but in a weird way kind of cool.
Ewwww! Just wanted to add I am also freakish about people being near my belly button…. and I also had my navel pierced AND a tattoo around to draw even more attention, which my husband finds incredibly odd.
Well, I hope you feel better now!
Yuck. But nice to know that…thing…is gone!
It looks like a WORM? How big is that thing anyway? I have no sense of scale…
Glad you are rid of it.
Gross!!! I’ve always wondered why my husband has a weird aversion to being touched in or around his bb. Maybe he used to have a belly ring? ;)
Maybe you could market this as a kind of therapy for anxious people preparing for IVF? (Just kidding!) Well, I’m glad you’ve got that taken care of and may this be the time your stomach expands as you deserve.
Wow, I’m glad I kept my piercing phase confined to my tounge and lip…no ability for weird things to collect. Maybe I’M the gross one here but I would think that would have been oddly satisfying to remove. Just me? Okay then.
Baby, this is my kind of post!
Eww. I will never ever get my belly button pierced now. Not that I was planning on it anyway, but still. ew.