gotta rant. why is it that people think that they can neglect their new piercing(s) and it'll heal up nice and fine? i don't understand this mentality. my sister had her tragus pierced before christmas... she's a normally responsible person, she's got a respectable job, yet she only bothered looking after this piercing for a couple of weeks, ignored the advice i gave her about how to clean it, then just left it. now when she comes round to my house, it's inflamed and painful. i ask her how she's taking care of it, she says she stopped cleaning it for a while but now she's doing it once a day. while staying over for the night, she briefly dabbed at it with some cotton and saltwater, and muttered painfully 'stupid ear', as if it was the ear's fault. i had to bite my tongue, because it's like there's no point in saying anything: when i attempted to give her some advice a few weeks back, she just rolled her eyes at me. and at one point she said 'if it gets infected i'll just get a shot of antibiotics' because apparantly her friend did the same with a navel piercing...
i've had upwards of twenty piercings over the years, and i've treated them all with respect and proper care, and i can't understand why some people have such an inattentive and negligent attitude towards something that they've put in their body and could potentially cause serious health problems.