Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for August 01, 2016

Surprisingly enough, in my experience in frontline surgical care, the people who express the most distress about needles are generally covered in tattoos and/or piercings. Apparently “that’s different”. Fair enough.

Hobby? Well, I suppose he could take up tattooing.

Warning some readers may find the following comment offensive..A woman found out that her boyfriend got a tattoo in a private place without talking to her first. She was quite angry about it and decided to get even by getting one in a private place without talking to him first. She was resolute in giving tit-for-tat.

Eh only a few years to go. I didn’t get my first tattoo until I was 20 and moved out – but my sister got one the day she turned 18; it was my present to her (she was living with me at this point).

I suspect he might have been thinking of giving one to Adam, rather than getting one himself.

I know the entire business has improved, but by the time I was aware of life around me, I noticed a big blue blob on my grandfather’s arm. When I asked him what it was, he told me it was “the biggest mistake of his life”. Whenever see these young girls with tattoos, I just wonder if they’ve considered how that thing will look when they are my age.

The coloured ink contains heavy metals, so when you have a tattoo removed, you are releasing copper, for instance, into your bloodstream. That’s one reason the removal is done in stages – to give your body time to recover and remove the toxins.

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