Before the new piercings

Right ear, before the new piercings. I already have a rook and tragus (each 16 gauge and about seven years old), and two lobes (both done at Piercing Pagoda in the mall, both about 15 years old).

I wanted to keep track of what goes on during the piercing process since it's been years since I've gotten any new piercings. It's very easy to remember only the good times; now that my rook and tragus are healed it seems like they've always been good...but not so much. The rook took two years to stop swelling every time that I slept on my right side. The tragus healed relatively easily compared to the rook. I got them both done on the same night, a week or so before Thanksgiving about seven years ago.