I have been wanting more art....I mean, tattoos, lately. I know just what I want and where (for the most part) and last week I decided it was high time to go get some foot art. So off I went.
I wanted words on the side of my right foot. So of course, I had to pick a font or design of writing, then I had to have the artist lay it out - over and over and over.....change that line - make that smaller - that should be a little higher - no loop there - more loop here....etc. This poor artist redrew this three words literally a dozen times. He was very patient while he did. At last, I had decided it was perfect and the artist went to print out the stencil and was just about to come get me when it occurred to me....
I WROTE THE WRONG WORD -
It isnt No LOOKING back, it is no TURNING back!
I almost had the wrong word tattooed on my foot. Whew - SO glad I caught that before it went on my foot. Of course, this meant another half dozen tweaks and we were off. Perfect. Right side of right foot done....then I had a thought. I wonder if he would recolor my cancer ribbon on the top of my left foot, which is 4 years old and kind of losing its vibrancy. He agreed.....I figured, "since I'm here" right?
A tattoo gets covered for an hour, then uncovered and ointment stays on it for like a week....so I went home with two bandaged feet but no problem. In an hour, it'll be fine. I stayed home that night.
The next morning I went to put shoes on and couldn't. I had the TOP of one foot tattooed and the SIDE of the other foot tattooed. There isn't a pair of shoes in the world that can accommodate that (and believe me, if there were, I would own them....if it's one thing I have - it's shoes). I must have put on twenty pair looking for ONE that wouldnt kill either one foot or the other. Rae's advice was wear two different shoes.....ARE YOU KIDDING ME. I have a reputation to uphold and it does NOT include two different shoes.....so being the slave to fashion that I am, I took one for the team and decided the left foot was just a recolor so I would wear something that rubbed that rather than the new tattoo....
....by the time I got home, I could no longer walk. Literally.
The next day my recolored tattoo was SO infected from my rubbing it with dirt and sandals for 8 hours that it was swollen and bleeding. It is one week and one day later and today is the first day I can wear normal shoes again. I spent the next 4 days with bandages on my left foot and the last four days with medicine on it and as of today, I can now wear a shoe......first time today....and it isn't pretty. It is fading away and scabbed and a mess thanks to my inability to worry more about my health than my shoes! I am hoping that within a month, the color comes back and the scabs heal with no ill effects.
So, note to all: NEVER TATTOO THE TOP OF ONE FOOT AT THE SAME TIME AS YOU TATTOO THE SIDE OF THE OTHER.....
Until next time....
