Posted on 09/24/2007 10:11:33 PM PDT by SoldierMedic
EVERETT, Wash. -- Cindi Reedes heard doctors tell her the same frightening words three times in eight days: Her teenage daughter's chances of survival were slim. It would take a near-miracle to save her from the aggressive infection ravaging her body.
The only cause doctors could guess at was the tongue piercing 18-year-old Lacey Filosa got without her mother knowing about it.
For weeks, Lacey wavered at the edge of death, kept in a drug-induced coma to give her struggling body every chance to heal. A tube kept her breathing. Operations to cut out the infection were needed nearly every day.
No one can say with certainty what triggered the infection.
Doctors suspect it was linked to a tongue piercing Filosa had gotten in Everett, a type of piercing popular with young adults. Their theory: Bacteria commonly found in the mouth and saliva possibly entered Lacey's bloodstream through the hole punched through the girl's tongue. Once inside, they flourished, triggering a firestorm of infection.
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Same here. I never found women with pierced tongues to be appealing. Ditto for pierced eyebrows.
diamond stud earings and nothing more for me.
So male tongue piercings are appealing? I'm here to tell you they are disgusting too.
It’s bad news when an infection goes really septic - a truly awful way to die. My grandfather says that sulfa drugs were the only thing that pulled him through his emergency appendectomy back in the 1910’s - otherwise he would have never have made it due to the gangrene.
I always thought that this was going to be a problem. The human mouth is rife with little critters.
Bacteria commonly found in the mouth and saliva possibly entered Lacey's bloodstream through the hole punched through the girl's tongue.
That's their story and they're sticking to it...
At one point, Lacey had 16 tubes in her upper body to help drain away the infection. Tests showed the bacteria ravaging her body were types commonly found in the mouth.
My grandfather also gargled with Listerine just about every day of his life and lived to be 95 when he succumbed to prostate cancer. Otherwise, he was almost never sick and swore that Dr. Lister knew EXACTLY what he was doing.
This girl probably wouldn't have had this trouble if she had done a couple of mouth rinses of Listerine before she had her tongue pierced.
The grossest ones are the studs below the lower lip. They look like they need better eating habits. I’m like, take a hanky and brush that dreck away.
The story I have read previously had a brain abscess caused by
the tongue piercing. I have had that one bookmarked in case any of my children completely loses his/her mind and starts talking about piercings. Now I have another to add to the file.
I am glad this girl survived.
Mouth piercings, in general, do nothing for me. I have seen some rather attractive women mangle their faces with all manner of hardware. I feel like asking them why they want to abuse what G-d gave to them.
I don’t really mind tongue piercings in certain ladies, it mainly depends on how well they take care of it. Same thing with the lip. Tongue and nose are not appealling, however.
I used to have my cartilage pierced, and I sometimes miss it. I had a corkscrew shaped bar that I would play with. Someday I may take a catheter and just re-do the hole.
Indeed. She is fortunate that she has kept her life. Maybe, she’ll decide to not puntcure other areas of her mouth.
Uh, my opinion differs.
Yeah, except they didn’t have sulfa drugs until 1935.
Pierced cartilage! Those can be rather painful. I have known a couple women who had that done and changed their minds after a while.
Tongue piercings, the new Darwin Award.
That’s fine. Whatever floats your boat, mate.
Personally, I have no qualms with a tasteful nose piercing (in one nostril, not in the septum).
It hurt for the first month, but I really took care of it, cleaning many times a day, and always with the recommended soap. The only times after it healed that it hurt was if I didn’t have anything in it, and then put the ring in (Because the hole would get stretched), or sometimes while snuggling with my honey it would get caught in her hair (Painful for both of us).
The human mouth has more bacteria than a cat’s mouth.
Saw a young women yesterday with multiple lip piercings. She also had on some lipstick. I wondered how she put on her lipstick with her lip jewelry.
“I have seen some rather attractive women mangle their faces with all manner of hardware. “
It’s a cultural travesty. Excessive piercings and tattoos are barbaric and backward and a detraction from natural beauty. It makes attractive girls much less so, and less-attractive girls impossible to bear, aka butt-ugly.
Such things don’t belong outside a National Geographic.
While I certainly don’t wish near-death experiences upon idiots who get their tongues pierced, there should be some sort of punishment for their stupidity.
Some of the girls around here , working at the drive thrus seem to have a hard time talking with them. “Thelcome ta xxxxxxx. Than I thake your orer pweeze”?
OH MY GOD!! A little beverage warning next time, if you don’t mind!!!!!! [frantically wipes off monitor]
Yes, the “Pierced Tongue Speech Disorder.” Another reason why I do not like them (tongue piercings).
with a face like that she probably spits out every time she looks at herself in the mirror!
Apparently aftr the first couple holes, her brain leaked out.
When I see someone with facial piercings, usually at the convenience store register, I have to repress the urge to ask her why she is volunteering to permanently reside in the underclass?
I also have to repress urges to tell men who are neither car mechanics, baseball catchers or Oscar Madison that their caps are on backwards.
Face piercings on a man yell bum with no hope for ever owning a pot to piss in.
Who would hire them? What can they bring to any business?
The nose studs with the clasps caked with snot in the nostril contrast with the diamond showing on the outside.
If you are a business owner or a manager, do you want people looking like that meeting your customers?
But they are "expressing themselves"
geez
Hopeless
if they want to look like Ooga Booga they should expect to live like them too
Doesn't really look feminine. Then again, doesn't look masculine. It's an "IT"...
Reminds me of the Chris Rock line--
"If you meet a girl with a pierced tongue, she will probably s**k your d**k.
If you meet a man with a pierced tongue, he will probably s**k your d**k."
-ccm
And most of them will end up living like that.
Or even worse, because they won't understand why their "straight" peers moved on to successful lives and they didn't.
They will then blame Republicans.
geez
“I’ve never found tongue piercings to be attractive”
I see young girls here in Bratislava with tongue and nose piercings.
For me, there is nothing uglier, not to mention how totally stupid it looks, and how dangerous it would be in the mouth.
Really? The little tiny diamond on the outside of the nose? I find it pointless and a bit gross; I've never understood how it would be seen as attractive in any way.
Why is a piercing differn’t then any other cut in the tounge or mouth?
PROTIP: not a woman, lol.
1. Your grandfather must be quite old.
2. Sulfa drugs were first used in the 1930's.
Why? Does that sound inaccurate to you?
Not just before the surgery... but after.
Considering the density of tongue tissue, the hole in the tongue was quite large... much larger than an ear piercing. And most people are told that after an ear piercing they should clean it with alcohol three to four times a day.
It didn’t sound like her tongue piercing was ever cleaned.
After all... how can you actually clean it well enough to avoid infection? I don’t think that is possible.
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