Finish getting my tattoos removed

...since I’ve been to this website or had my tattoo worked on. But I got my sixth session done this past Saturday. Pretty exciting. I think after it has healed this time, it will be pretty much gone. I can’t wait.

The technician said it was already so pale that if there were any remnant after this treatment, it would not be worth trying to get it out. So she did the treatment in 5 minutes, which is $120, as opposed to the $430 I was paying before! (Granted, they would have been $240 prior to today, as heavier ink, if I’d gone to this clinic which didn’t exist when I started.) So I am not in much pain at all, even 5 minutes after the treatment it had subsided, and I expect the scabs will heal in about a week.

I showed her my other tattoo, but as it has green in it, the yellow remainder of the green ink would stay after the blue and the black had left, if I tried to get it removed. Considering that, I think I’ll just keep the tattoo for a while yet. I think if I wanted to concentrate my other resources on other aspects of my appearance, I would get more mileage out of it.

This goal will be clicked done on Saturday. Hopefully I will not have to “do it again” with another appointment, I really hope the last of the ink leaves. It has been 2 years almost to the day since my last appointment, and it has looked like a patterned pale bruise since then. It’s high time this one cannot be detected again by any but the very trained eye.

The clinic where it’s done specialized in green and black. I can consider in the future removing the other one I have, though most people find it very nice as tattoos go. All told that would cost me $720. This one I’m finishing now, $2000. Hopefully not more.

I want to book the appointment by September 30. Less than one week to do it. Do it!

Did you know that I can’t be a dork because a dork is a whale’s penis.

But nonetheless, I’m liable to be a dork by whatever other definition we have for the term.

...almost a year since I’ve done anything about this goal! I can’t believe it’s been that long.

Anyhow, I made an appointment which is in 2 weeks. It will be my fifth session. I figure I’ve still got a couple sessions more after that one. I wish the damn thing would just disappear! What a waste of money… $80 to get it. And so far I have spent $600 trying to get it removed! I’m sure after all is said and done, I’ll have about $1000 invested in this stupid thing.

I have another tattoo on the ball of my shoulder which I would like to get removed eventually- but I don’t see that happening any year soon. I showed it to my doctor and he said it would be really hard to take it off because there is so much blue and green in it. Apparently blue, green, and purple ink is harder to remove because it’s more difficult for the laser to read the color. Too bad I didn’t just get all black tattoos. Those come off much easier. Too bad I got any tattoos to begin with!!

Conveniently located, and $120 for 5 minutes. I estimate it would take 10 minutes to repass over my tattoo. $240 is slightly over half what I paid before.

http://www.montrealthermage.ca/

I called around a little yesterday to come up with a plastic surgeon who does laser tattoo removal. I called today and told the receptionist that I had had 4 sessions already on an 18 square inch tattoo, and that I needed only about one more session for it to be complete. So, how much would it be? She went away and came back and said no matter what, it’s $80 for the consult, but that (unlike my other surgeon!) it would be deducted from the first session. And that session would be minimum $150. I hope it’s not a scam, but if it would be $150 for me to finish this job, I’d be very, very happy indeed.

SO I will call two more places to get a better feel for it.

The temporary job I just had has paid for a few outstanding wants/needs, such as a battery for the laptop, bath stuff (totally run out, it’s not a basic need but I still need it), some bonus perfumes, new underwear and lingerie, a modest pharmacy trip, a few second-hand clothes, Daisy’s vet visit, some decent pens, a nice journal, a contact lens needing replacing, and it will also pay for the speakers that my friend Dan loaned to me last summer, since I’ve decided that for time and money it’s more worth it for me to keep them than to make my own (yes, make my own speakers. In the distant future). I still have some more modest clothes shopping to do, new and second-hand, including get a new bag, perhaps.

It’s a shame tattoo removal is so damn expensive, it’s out of range of my budget for a long time. Unless it’s the present I give myself for getting a new job next time – a real paid gig at a salary matching my skills. Unless, also, I call around to other plastic surgeons and explain the state of the tattoo and see about getting a much lower quote for my final session.

http://ignorantslut.blogspot.com/2005/10/tattoo-removal-pics.html
(please don’t click around investigating the rest of my life, though; this is not an invitation to see more than the tattoo removal, and you get plenty of my life right here on 43 Things under relative anonymity)

I haven’t had any work done in a long time because it’s $430 each time I go, and I can’t afford it. The last time I went it was a little less painful, but a little less effective.

The longer you go between sessions, anyway, the fewer sessions you need. I’m talking 4 – 6 months, though, not whole years, like I feel like it’s been.

I’m going tomorrow for my fourth session. I’m considering not having it numbed this time to save about fifty dollars. We’ll see how that goes though.