Posted on 10/14/2010 7:31:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A woman died of blood poisoning two days after having her tongue pierced as a birthday treat, an inquest was told on Thursday.
Amanda Taylor wanted the stud so she could look like royal Zara Phillips and pop star Pink, her family said. The 34-year-old collapsed within 48 hours of having the 2cm (0.8in) steel bar put through her tongue.
Just before she died, she wrote on Facebook: ‘I feel like crap.’
Before yesterday’s hearing, Miss Taylor’s mother Lorraine, 61, said: ‘I was against [the piercing] and Amanda never did anything unless she had my blessing.
‘But her friend was having it done too so I said: “You’re going to be 34 – I’ll give you my blessing but I’m still not 100 per cent happy”.
‘We’re a very close family. If I’d said no, she wouldn’t have done it. I wish I said no.’ Miss Taylor visited Silverhand Jewellery in Cardiff in April to have the stud put in.
The next day, her tongue was swollen and she had a sore throat, the inquest heard.
The care worker was prescribed penicillin for suspected tonsillitis but later died at home from septicaemia and acute tonsillitis.
Police and public health officials found ‘unhygienic practices’ at Silverhand Jewellery, the hearing was told. But tests failed to link bacteria at the parlour with the infection.
Miss Taylor, of Caerphilly in south Wales, died because bacteria entered her blood through the piercing, said deputy Gwent coroner Liz James, recording a verdict of death by natural causes.
Silverhand Jewellery said it had followed ‘stringent hygiene procedures’.
She isn’t going to be 35 now!
It might not have been the shop. I still can’t understand how one could get a tongue piercing and NOT get infected. The mouth is just so septic and environment.
A 34 year-old actually asked her mom’s permission?
God did not put any extra holes in your body so why would you?
Sure. But the human mouth is anything but hygienic.
Mom......you SHOULD HAVE SAID NO!!! What kind of DECENT person gets theor TONGUE PIERCED!!!! It’s for ONE THING!!
A friend of mine has a step daughter who got a tongue piecing for her 21st birthday.
She was all showing it off even as she was healing, with tongue all swollen.
She asked me if I liked it, her speech slurred from the new ornament in her tongue..
I said ***Yeath thaths weally coo!***
Oh was she ticked off!!! LoL!
Dumba**
A friend of mine has a step daughter who got a tongue piecing for her 21st birthday.
She was all showing it off even as she was healing, with tongue all swollen.
She asked me if I liked it, her speech slurred from the new ornament in her tongue..
I said ***Yeath thaths weally coo!***
Oh was she ticked off!!! LoL!
Dumba**
Had one guy in my FD with an eyebrow stud - that is until went into burn building on a drill
Wound up with nice burn as stud absorbed heat .....
Two days would have greatly exceeded her life expectancy after I saw it...
Stupid should hurt.
Too bad it hurt in the worst possible way.
I don’t get the piercing fad. I figure that I had the right number of holes in me right from the factory.
Sad. RIP.
just sayin'
If I showed up at work with something like that, they would move my office to the basement, or worse, off property.. HR says, its surprising how many show up at job interviews with that stuff.
RIP, Amanda Taylor.
I'd never ask out a woman with a pierced anything else, or whoever had a pierced anything else if I knew about it.
One woman I broke up with in my younger years, I did in part because she insisted she wanted to have her ears pierced.
If that's where her values are, some other guy was welcome to her.
(Indeed, she married some guy, had a few kids, and then divorced.)
Good riddance.
Darwin award candidate.
Zero sympathy here.
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