Torture on Purpose?

Hey everyone out there. I would just like to say that we are all fortuitous that tattooing was invented. However, when the tattoo artist warns you that the tongue, the feet and the hands are the worst place to get a tattoo, you should listen to him. I thought, "I have a high threshold for pain and my other three tattoos were just fine. Bring it on."

Whoa boy. If I could have changed the place for my tattoo while I the torture was going on, I would have. However, once he started, it was keep going or have an odd picture on my foot.

Three weeks ago, I went in for my outlining. That healed and yesterday I went back for color and shading. HOLY CRAP!!! I have never experienced that much pain and I have had back surgery. Every time he had to go over the same area with a different color I wanted to scream. Mind you, this was really toward the end. I held my own during the first hour or so. But then I felt like a woman in labor: just breathe and focus on something.

Now it's healing time for the colored part. I have three other tattoos and I have never had a tattoo artist have a person wash, put stuff on it, and bandage it up for three days and then not put lotion on it. However, I am diabetic number one so the foot is some concern. Number two, the method he uses for healing works. I didn't have any scabbing or major loss of the outline so we pray that as I am using the same methods that all goes well. If not, he offers free touch-ups.
Oh boy, bring on the pain again?

Perhaps when it is healed, I will post a picture. It is a daisy and it is surrounded by blue sky basically. In the sky you can see a few stars. When I told the tattoo artist, who by the way I recommend to everyone who wants a tattoo, I think he thought I was strange. But here is the story: My favorite flower is a daisy. When I got married, we had these plastic and wooden Chinese fans for the centerpieces for the tables. Well to dress them up a bit, my father spent oodles of time adding constructs to the bottom of the stands for the fans and then glued artificial daisies to the fan stands. He did so much for me always including spending hours completing this mundane task. Well he passed a couple of years ago and I remember how hard he worked. So on this tattoo, the daisy is for all the things he did for me and the stars represent the heavens where he is today.

It is my way of remembering him. Of course, I guess I could have picked a better location but maybe it was life's way of showing the pain he went through.

Anywho, time to take care of it.
Take care of yourselves and sleep well.

Maria