erg

my tongue is still really swollen. i think i made matters worse by taking out my piercing and cleaning it a few days ago. maybe cuz i just used water. now i've bought listerine and am rinsing my mouth out regularly...currently my barbell is sitting in a little cup of listerine too. it is awfully strange for my body to start rejecting it now, no? after all this time? but there's nothing icky or anything. it's not infected. a little red on the bottom, but nothing else. just swollen tongue. its weird. i wonder how long i can keep the thing out before it closes (at least semi closes, it didn't even fully close after a year without the barbell). but i took it out once for a while when i had an MRI. and it slipped back in, as i recall. and that was easily an hour. but now with my tongue all swollen...and the piercing itself (the canal, or whatever, in my tongue) being so tight because of it...i should go and put it back in. like now. how weird my tongue feels now...all naked...

i hope piercing talk doesn't squick ya'll.