Some tattoo-less 50-something friends and I were chatting recently that we were happy the tattoo craze bypassed boomer women of our generation, because we'd be worried how saggy the tattoos might look as we got older.
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, released today, gave me another reason to be grateful. Seems that fairly nasty “nontuberculous mycobacterial skin infections” have been traced to “nationally distributed, prediluted gray ink.”
Outbreaks of the infection occurred in several states, including in Washington state. “Seattle & King County identified five confirmed and 26 possible cases.”
(Spokesman-Review archives photo of Maria Jose Cristerna at a tattoo shop in Bogota, Colombia)
Spokesman-Review features writer Rebecca Nappi, along with Catherine Johnston, an Olympia, Wash., writer who works in hospital administration, write about issues of grief when facing serious illness, dying, death and other forms of loss.
Ask a question: Rebecca and Catherine answer grief questions in their syndicated EndNotes column for McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. Email them at endnotescolumn@gmail.com.
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