A CORONER gave warning yesterday of the "considerable risks" of bodypiercing after recording a verdict of misadventure on a woman who died after her 118th piercing.
The inquest on Lesley Hovvells, 39, in her home town of Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, heard that she collapsed last New Year's Eve, and died of septicaemia in January. Miss Hovvells had 28 ear studs, 13 ear rings, 11 belly bars through her navel, 18 other bars, six lip rings, 36 body rings all over her body and six nose studs. She is believed to have had over 40 piercings in the year before her death.
A professional bodypiercer, Ronald Hewitt, told the inquest that Miss Hovvells had become a regular customer "but she began to cause me concern. If the skin is broken and not kept clean infection can occur. I didn't think she was looking after the piercings and so I refused to carry out any more. If people who have piercings are not extremely careful and look after their hygiene they are in danger." Mr Hewitt, 53, told the hearing he was qualified with the National Association of Bodypiercers. Miss Hovvells had then gone to a different bodypiercer.
Dr Lesley Murray, the consultant pathologist, said that Miss Hovvells had died of an overwhelming infection which led to cardiac arrest. She said: "There is little doubt that neglected hygiene of her body-piercings was responsible for introducing toxins and bacteria into the blood." The cause of death was septicaemia and bacteria in the bloodstream. Miss Hovvells also had hepatitis C which may have been a contributory factor.
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"National Association of Bodypiercers"?! I'm sorry, but I'd like to leave the planet now. When does the next starship leave?
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Ma-ha! I'm sorry, death is a terrible thing. *snicker* Ma-ha-ha.
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Any of it is disgusting. Earrings (one on each side) I can tolerate, only from so much exposure over time. But, aside from that, looking at unnatural holes poked through someone's body makes me rather ill...
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Me and my g/f were talking about this last night. A few ear rings and belly rings are fine, but when you start piercing your eye brows, lips, nose, other anatomy, it gets too odd for our tastes.
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I never got piercing. I can get the girl with earrings; that's ancient. But not the full body piercings.
Along with those people who can bend their joints in odd dirrections; I can't stand it. They're just as bad as the "I pierce, tattoo, drink, smoke, and sniff" crowd ... "No, I don't want to see you twist you leg around your back or align you fingers on the back of your hand ..."
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People think my hands are weird because my fingers bend back until they're about ninety degrees to my palm. I never had any idea that was unusual until... oh, probably less than a year ago... :-)
------------------ "If the rope is a quarter of a Zeuslength in size, then the Defiant shalt most naturally be seven times the thirty-second part of a Zeuslength?" -Boris Skrbic, 27-Sep-2000
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Of course, if it was the Sun, they would not only have mentioned the clit piercings, they'd have had a topless lady on the same page. Possible even with piercings too.
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