To cut through and earing

i'm really going to try and get some new pictures put up on this blog. I mean it would make it so much more interesting and that picture of me is like 2 years old by now. sheesh! So funny story from this week at clinicals I was up drawing a lady and she said that she had her baby on the side of the road. I mean you see it all the time in ER and all those other hospital show... but it is quite another thing when you see the people in real life and all. I thought i was pretty interesting. I guess her other two babies had to be induced so she was sitting there thing... I have all the time in the world... oops I guess not. Dad had to deliever the baby right there in front of the car dealership. Craziness!
On another note: how freaking long does it take for a cartilage ear pericing to heal? and an even better question is how do you get the earing out of your ear. A couple night ago my pericing of now 8 weeks was driving me bonkers and I decided to just take the sucker out. I mean come on enough is enough. But then, believe it or not, I can't get the earing out. I think I might need to ask claires how to remove it otherwise I guess I'll just have to stand it. The good thing is after my little "freak- out fit", I clean the ear and the swelling and pain has gone down... but still not all gone. So now I just sit here in paused wonder thinking "what is sharp enough to cut through and earing???!!!"