Painful and Health: Stranded

Stranded

By digressions - 29/12/2011 19:01 - Canada

Today, I tore a muscle in my back. At the hospital, I was prescribed some pain medication. My husband got me settled at home, with everything I needed within reach, and left for work. As I picked up the bottle to take the first pill, I knocked it on the floor. It rolled under the couch. FML

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By fijiflu - 05/11/2015 21:31

Today, at work in a call center, I went into my locker to get my pain pills from a recent surgery. When I opened the bottle, half my pills spread all over the floor. My boss walked by and said, "I knew it!" FML

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By Agonised - 29/05/2021 00:01

Today, I went to the hospital for crippling back pain that made it impossible to walk. The doctor was more interested in telling me off for not taking a pill that he admitted doesn't help acute pain. He then gave me an injection that wore off in an hour, and sent me home, telling me to take over the counter meds. FML

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By charlotte9338 - 23/10/2011 23:32 - Canada

Today, I went to the hospital with a broken hand. They gave me a cast and some prescription pain medication. The only problem is that the bottle of medication is child-proof, I live alone and I can't open it with one hand. FML

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No pain, no meds

By I don’t stink - 01/05/2020 20:00

Today, I finally got to come home after hours spent in a locked down ER after a car accident. My injuries were non life-threatening, but pretty damn painful. I asked my sister to pick up my pain meds from the pharmacy for me. She got drunk and "lost them", AKA gave them to her dirtbag boyfriend. FML

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By Michael - 25/10/2011 15:00 - Australia

Today, while taking pills for a headache, I threw my head back to help get the pills down, and in the process, whacked it against the brick windowsill behind me. FML

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Fragile

By Ouch - 18/01/2021 08:02

Today, I'm 3 days post-partum and my husband accidentally jabbed into my side while flopping onto the couch. FML

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SO FRUSTRATING

By no one - 19/06/2011 18:46 - United States

Today, my back hurt really badly, so I decided to stay in bed. After a while, I sat up to shut the door. When I leaned over to reach it, I fell off my bed and face-planted the floor. After picking myself up and getting comfortable in my bed again, I realized the door was still open. FML

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By Anonymous - 26/07/2018 01:30

Today, while bringing my baby an early-morning bottle, I tripped over a ball and fell into the glass coffee table, smashing it and cutting myself pretty badly. My husband slept through the whole thing, but the neighbors came by to tell me to keep it down. FML

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Earthquake sneezer

By Noname - 27/01/2009 00:02 - Japan

Today, I sneezed so hard I herniated my back. After passing out from the pain I awoke on the floor covered in my own shit and piss. Unable to move, I had to wait in this state for four hours for my wife to return home from work, clean me up and take me to the hospital. FML

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By UsedForSurgery - 28/10/2017 01:30

Today, after having surgery, I called my family to tell them I was out, safe, and on my way home. The first thing they asked was if they could "borrow" some of my pain meds. FML

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DocBastard 38

Thursday 29 December 2011 22:52

Just put the TV on Jersey Shore. The stupidity will make you forget all about your pain.

EllyMo 15

Thursday 29 December 2011 22:48

I keep ferrets for this exact reason.

Comments

hateevryone 14

Friday 30 December 2011 17:47

-____- sucks to be you

Sulliben 1

Friday 30 December 2011 18:14

Well then you're a retard. There's only so much someone can help you!

71cudalover 0

Friday 30 December 2011 18:22

Only thing that truly relives back pains is medical marijuana

heyyyaubrey 9

Friday 31 January 2014 5:08

how about PAIN MEDS.

kristena103 14

Friday 30 December 2011 21:46

I have long wooden sticks for that same reason

cuddlebunny3548 11

Saturday 31 December 2011 0:08

Why didn't you take the first one while he was still home?

Carlie_McCartney 1

Saturday 31 December 2011 2:42

Now would be a good time to invest in one of those claw things that can reach far away things, I think...

iyazwoodfle 4

Saturday 31 December 2011 3:31

Was a phone one of those things in reach?

drmountaindeww 0

Saturday 31 December 2011 23:27

And lemme guess... The phone wasnt in reach?

digressions 13

Sunday 1 January 2012 23:13

Since several people have now asked if a phone was one of the things I had within reach: Well yes, it was...but even if had been able to reach someone who was available to come over and assist me, I would have had to get up, then go down a flight of stairs to unlock the front door and let them in, which would have been both painful and dangerous. Thank you to those who immediately assumed that I am an idiot, but I'm not. Love, OP.