Nursing and tattoos

LMAO!!! Spoken like a true nurse.

DNR: I love it!! I told everyone of my friends from work.

just remember, one day when you're old, the spider on your tummy will be an octopus! My sis in law has "tomboy" inside her arm. I keep thinking about how that is gonna look when she is a 70 year old "tomboy"! She is a riot! But tattoos are just not for me. I like to wash off my art work after the day is done!

I have always wanted a tatoo, around my ankle, eagle feathers with a dream catcher in the center of the band, with (of course for me) a wolf in the center of the dream catcher... but I am a diabetic with a bone marrow problem(not a big one) and have this fear of having my foot fall off due to an inadvertant infection... I may just do it for a present for my 60th birthday (that will give me a good number of years to get over being a woosie).
As an aside, I have a cardiac cath done (first and hopefullly last) last year... I was a nervous wreck lying on that table (typical nurse) and along comes my cath nurse, had his scrub sleeve rolled up like he had a pack of cigarettes in it but I could see his tattoo... it said St. Al... it made me feel better... the again it could have been the narcotics...

I have a Ga peach on my breast and a butterfly near my butt under the pantyline. They are not for anyone else to see, and the scrubs cover them up.

When I turn 90+, I am going to look like my grandmother - a beautiful Indian/black woman with hardly any wrinkles, a small waist, flat stomach and hourglass figure. That is how she looked in her early 90s when she passed. *fingers crossed*

I got one in my wilder years....when I was 38. A small delicate red rose on my (L) side of chest. It peeks out of my neckline at times and people always comment about it. I like it. I've never been sorry I got it. It always reminds me of a special time in my life.

Again, this is just an opinion and everyone is entitled to do as they wish. I personally do not like tattoos. I think it is unprofessional. Just working with patients who are elderly now with old fadded out tattoos it does not look good. Why ruin a beautiful creation (your body) with permanent ink and scaring? I just don't think people think about the long term affects of tattoos and piercings.

I have a bracelet tattoo just above my right wrist that goes all the way around. Its forget-me-nots (the Alaska state flower) and now that I no longer live in Alaska, it serves to remind me of home. When I wear my lab coat or long sleeves, it is covered. Most of my patients/residents think it is very attractive. I have alway wanted a tattoo, ever since I saw my uncles when I was about 6 - I was fascinated by it! It took me until I was about 44 years old to realize what I wanted. I have no regrets about it.

I have a celtic tri- knot on the back of my neck. I love my tatoo. I want more! And I wouldnt mind piercing my tongue.
someday......,

not really into the pain of having a tattoo, but l'd like one.