tempestuous

I'm having a major piercing problem. My body has never been very good with artificial holes -- piercings take forever to heal, almost always leaving a nice big keloid behind. A few years ago, over a decent period of time, I ended up with about 24 holes in my ears -- 12 in each, outer ear lobe and up, nothing too fancy-dancy. I ended up letting 14 of the holes grow over because they weren't healing -- sleeping on either side was a bitch.

I recently started the process over again -- managed to re-pierce a few of the closed holes, but they're not healing well either. So what the hell? I've had to fight with piercings before -- the worst was my nose piercing, which for the first year or two developed this huge inner nostril keloid bumpy thing that hurt like a motherfucker. I eventually got pissed off and stuck a pair of scissors up my nose and cut the damned thing off -- it seemed to do the trick because my nose ring has now been happy for over a decade.

But what to do about these ears? Does anyone have any advice? I know that I'm sensitive to crappy metals, so I need to go buy something good. And I know that I hate studs. Should I just go to a professional piercer and shell out the big bucks to get the things done right? If so, can any of you recommend a good piercer in the Cleveland area?

And finally . . . I think that Bush is a fucking Nazi. Do you people realize how evil the Patriot Act is? I'm probably going to be sent back to Canada for saying that. Evil. Evil. Evil.