Comments on: DIY Lip Piercing Almost Kills Kansas City Teen

By: Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:01:15 +0000

that’s really a sad thing to hear about. I am 14 years old and reading some of these other people’s comments, it’s like yeah, he should have known better and maybe he did, but he thought you know what this can’t happen to me, what are the chances? I myself, have a couple facial piercings, one of which i did myself but had a sterilized needle. What goes through their mind is, “oh, my parents would never let me get a facial piercing, nor buy the sterilized tools to do so” and they resort into getting their hands on whatever needed to pierce themselves. the chances may be very low into getting staph, but you never know what microscopic bacteria is around you because you can’t see it! I hope all is well with Zeke.

By: Bose

Bose — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:43:24 +0000

@ Broken

For the record, the intial article before my post said it was a virus. Secondly, read the story here above the comments and not the one on the Foxnews frontpage which says:
“Zeke Wheeler of Blue Springs is recovering at Children’s Mercy Hospital after several surgeries on his knees and hips to remove the drug-resistant infection called Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus virus.”

@Ashley
Thanks for reading the article clearly and backing up my comment

By: Ashley

Ashley — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:49:37 +0000

As alot of people are taking this article and bashing body piercing in general, let me enlighten ya’ll on a few things. My husband had 13 body piercings growing up. 0 infections. I myself have had 8 with 0 infections. If you have a professional do it, there is little to know risks because you are briefed on how to take care of the peircing during the healing process. But if you are dumb enough to try it at home, maybe do a little research to make sure you are not endangering yourselves. And for all those that are blaming lack of education in schools for this, bear in mind that most professional peircing parlors will not peirce a minor without parental consent so those of you with idiot children who did their piercings at home, then I blame poor parenting on that.

And Broken, I don’t think you read the article to clearly, because yes the article did make reference to MRSA as a virus. At least here in the blog section it did. If you scroll to the article right before the comments start, this is what you will see: “Zeke Wheeler of Blue Springs is recovering at Children’s Mercy Hospital after several surgeries on his knees and hips to remove the drug-resistant infection called Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus virus.”

By: Kevin, PA

Kevin, PA — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:41:39 +0000

“This is one more example of why national health care is a bad idea — it interferes with the process of natural selection. (That’s where the chronically stupid manage to eliminate themselves from the human gene pool before they have the misfortune to breed.)” — Vtercell

Yea, and letting people die who fall down the steps would “breed out” the clumsy among us, while letting people die who have been hit by drunk drivers would “breed out” those who don’t pay enough attention…

Your statement alone is proof enough that evolution has already stagnated among us long-legged ground-monkeys.

By: Dr. Jon Aronson

Dr. Jon Aronson — Mon, 12 May 2008 00:44:35 +0000

Idiotic report. I’m a dentist and the warning should be to not put extra holes in one body in unclean places. Kids are so stupid that they reflect the “common culture” that makes it OK for people to be noticed by markings and metal instead of education and achievment.

Dr. Jon Aronson
Nellysford, Virginia

By: Jennifer B

Jennifer B — Sun, 11 May 2008 23:35:16 +0000

MRSA is becoming more common and I believe it is not just from people piercing themselves with contaminated needles!

Anyone can get staph let alone MRSA.

My nephew who just turned 5 had staph when he was 2 and nearly died from it. He was at a Tennessee’s top Children’s Hospital when diagnosed. The doctors had never seen a case as bad as his.

The staff told us he could have gotten it from a simple paper cut.

So give this teen a break. Yes, it’s a tough lesson learned and from what the article says he may have chronic issues related to what has happened.

We have all done things that resulted in consequences, some longer than others!

By: Kaitlyn

Kaitlyn — Sun, 11 May 2008 17:41:19 +0000

The other comments on here are ridiculous. Basically every comment is saying how stupid this kid is for self piercing. Do you not realize that there are adults out there piercing kids with unsterile needles? Yes, this is happening at local malls everywhere. Those guns that people use to pierce children’s ears cannot be autoclaved, therefore they are not sterile, so this could be transmitted just as easily this way. I love how ignorant certain adults can be. Learn your facts.

By: Dean

Dean — Sun, 11 May 2008 17:11:54 +0000

He should go to or watch the Healing Revival in Lakeland, Florida on the internet at 7PM everynight. People are receiving healing and miracles around the world. http://www.ignitedchurch.com/

By: texas

texas — Sun, 11 May 2008 15:03:07 +0000

This kid is a total loser. He looks like such a wanker laying there. The fact that he was trying to pierce his lip indicates that he is pretty stupid and in need of more attention. He certainly got it. I want to know who is paying for all of his medical bills. His parents? I doubt it. The kid just needs to die. He is going to be so jacked up, he will be a tax burden for the rest of us for the rest of his life. Another idiot is commenter Bose. The article never claims MRSA is a virus. It says he was diagnosed with a viral infection and then a week later was found to have the MRSA after going to the children’s hospital. What I want to know also is what is Obama going to do to save this kid? He needs to go see this boy wanker and save him. Obama is so awesome. I bet he could just go there and the MRSA would get scared by the hip, tough black Obama and leave the hospital. Obama can save us all, just get him in office and we are all saved.

By: Jama Holko

Jama Holko — Sun, 11 May 2008 13:28:03 +0000

It really upsets me that people can be sooo insensitive. This kid did what many and any child is capable of doing. I teach this age child and they want to be cool, and have love and acceptance. Their peers are important to them and they are affected by what they see and what goes on around them. They get plenty of education about what can happen to them from piercings, SDTD’s alcohol, etc. They still don’t think it can happen to them. I’m proud of the mother that says she will protect her child. That is a good start but there is no guarnatee that it will keep her protected. It is a great start however, and what all parents shoud do. She is saying I love you, therefore you can’t. And parents, while you are at it, teach them to be kind to one another. Obviously, some of the idot callers out there haven’t learned that, so it may be hard for them to teach their children. To the parents of this young man that made a poor decision I pray that he doesn’t have any lifelong affects from this tragedy and that he uses his mistake to help others.