Tattooed Wedding Rings and Falling Backwards
August 1, 2007 at 5:47 PM
by Ashleigh
I've been visiting my physiotherapist now for over a year and only today did I notice that he has a tattooed wedding ring. Shows how observant I am.
I asked him about it and he said that because he's a physio and needs to use his hands all day and his wife is a radiologist and can't wear rings they decided to tatoo their rings on instead.
They both have permanent makeup rather than an actual tattoo because real tattoos can become blurry on the thin skin on your fingers. The permanent makeup wears off in 10 - 12 years.
What a sweet idea. I thought it was so touching!
The falling backwards part of the topic?
Today I had to fall backwards against the physio and trust him not to let me fall.
A bit like that trust exercise that people always seem to do in group therapy in the movies, you know the one?
Except he was lifting me as I relaxed and bending me backwards to try and get my joints to get back in the right places and I couldn't do it.
I couldn't fall backwards and believe that anyone would catch me! Just absolutely not.
Could you do it?
Comments
I've always found tattooed wedding rings very interesting, maybe because I'm allergic to most metals. It would've been a cheaper route to go then the rings we bought... LOL!
I loved falling backwards as a child, but in my late teens, I discovered I could no longer do it. Had to try at some stupid work team-building thing a few years ago, and could barely bring myself to even LEAN backwards! LOL!
I can't do that at all-I have a very hard time trusting people.
I can do the falling backwards thing. I just don't think for a couple of seconds. (Then again, I'm quite clumsy, so I often fall at random times. Maybe I'm just more used to it?)
Yep - I can still do the falling-back trust game ... It works both-ways, remember, so if you have doubts, just make sure that you do the falling first, that way you can decide whether to catch them or not :-)
I love the idea of a tattoo wedding ring.....I am 56 and last winter had to cut off my lovely wedding ring when my fingers swelled with arthritis, I'm determined to keep one on all the time so am having a celtic knot tattoo done on my ring finger next week........I can't wait, I've always wanted one and this is the ideal way to have my wedding ring for life.
I know the one! We used to do that all the time as kids - I loved it and had no problem letting myself go.
I tried it again a few months ago and couldn't do it. Hmmmm. Maybe I'll give it another try - or maybe I've lost my faith in humanity. ;)
Tattooed wedding rings - romantic, very romantic, but not so pretty. But definitely more permanent than the normal variety.
August 2, 2007 9:10 AM