Work: Today, I was operating on a young girl, when she began to awaken...

By Anonymous - 03/06/2012 20:27 - United States

Today, I was operating on a young girl, when she began to awaken during the surgery. We quickly put her back under, of course, but now I'm terrified that she'll remember my profuse cursing and get me in the shit with my curmudgeonly killjoy of a boss. FML

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By Anonymous - 06/10/2013 21:49 - Canada - Toronto

Today, I started to come to during dental surgery. I clearly heard someone behind me say "Shit! Get this fucker back under!" then another person mentioning they'd have to kill me to avoid "another lawsuit", followed by laughter and the blackness of sleep. FML

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By Anonymous - 20/02/2015 19:25 - United States - Wapakoneta

Today, my surgeon was giving me the lowdown of what was going to happen on the operating table. I was anxious enough without him saying stuff like "cut you open", "quite a bit of blood" and "it's all quite risky." That's all I remember before fainting. My wife won't stop mocking me for it. FML

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By Anonymous - 31/10/2013 20:42 - United Kingdom - Leicester

Today, I heard my surgeon mutter to a nurse how easy it would be to kill me on the operating table and make it look like an accident. FML

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By notahero - 09/01/2015 04:40 - United States - Brentwood

Today, my boss told me she had a nightmare where her life depended on me, and I let her die. Now I'm ridiculously paranoid that I'm going to get fired at any second. FML

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By DocBastard, meet DocCunt - 18/10/2013 22:12 - Australia - Sydney

Today, my surgeon was talking to me about my upcoming heart bypass operation. I was extremely nervous from the start, but he somehow managed to keep saying things like "death", "fatalities", "high-risk", and "never wake up" throughout. FML

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By Anonymous - 08/07/2011 15:46 - Belgium

Today, I went into hospital for knee surgery. When I awoke, I was surprised to find a bandage wrapped around my throbbing head. The nurse explained that a student observer had fainted in the operating room and his head had smashed against mine on the way down. FML

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By offtothejobcentre - 31/12/2012 22:42 - United Kingdom - London

Today, my boss put me on suspension, a week after granting a subordinate time off to recover from surgery. When I signed the paperwork, I was too embarrassed to admit I didn't understand her writing, which apparently said she was getting treated for "dangerously low levels of dick". FML

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By NoPainNoGain - 17/09/2009 14:31 - United States

Today, I got my wisdom teeth pulled. Apparently the medicines don't work on me. I woke up in the middle of the surgery and felt EVERYTHING. One of the nurses asked if I was okay, and the doctor just kept saying "Don't worry she's just dreaming", while tears were pouring down my face. FML

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By Noname - 06/03/2009 22:20 - United States

Today, I was at the dentist getting a cavity filled. As she's drilling into my tooth, I feel the drill slip, and then she quickly stuffs gauze into my mouth. She nervously laughs and says to me "Wow! You must really be numb!" FML

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By Anonymous - 17/05/2014 16:02 - United States - Elko

Today, my boss yet again said she was "literally dying", after she watched a funny video online. Long story short, I'm now on her shitlist because I couldn't help but point out that she clearly wasn't dying, and that her ranting was distracting me from doing actual work. FML

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lonkite101 14

Monday 4 June 2012 0:39

Flash her one of those things from Men In Black.

Spongii101 12

Monday 4 June 2012 0:41

Surgery must be pretty stressful. There's a lot of pressure involved. If anyone should be allowed to swear at work, it should be a surgeon.

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Stormdriven37 6

Monday 4 June 2012 2:34

Why are people saying YDI? I would be swearing too if a little girl's life was on the line, and the fact she was waking up was threatening that.

afropuffjake 9

Monday 4 June 2012 2:36

Definitely a not so common FML... Awesome :-) I'd be ******** bricks too dude jobs are scarce right now...

CeeCee_fml 16

Monday 4 June 2012 2:36

Waking up during a surgery has to be one of my greatest fears, right behind burning to death. The doctor swearing up a storm will be the last thing I'll be concerned about. Besides, she probably heard much more colorful vocabulary in her grade school.

Rachaelc23 8

Monday 4 June 2012 2:38

That would be the fault of the anesthesiologist. Not yours. You have nothing to worry about

NurseAbi 10

Monday 4 June 2012 10:39

Exactly what I was going to write. Go and yell at your gas man for not sorting the propofol out. That's his job!

CeeCee_fml 16

Tuesday 5 June 2012 1:43

I can't be the only one who thought of the doctor from Courage the Cowardly Dog: "Nothing to worry about. Nothing at all."

CharliesCool2084 8

Monday 4 June 2012 2:38

If she does; say she was out of it and doesn't know what she's talking about.

munchy22 5

Monday 4 June 2012 2:47

I worked for a doctor who was a general in the Army, every other word that came out of him was a curse word. They all curse.. But he was an excellent doctor an overall good guy.

_Peppermint_ 34

Monday 4 June 2012 2:55

I hope I never get a surgery performed on me by you.

unknown_user5566 26

Monday 4 June 2012 5:15

Why? It's not his fault the girl woke up. My assumption is that the surgery was sucessful.

uniquechic21 12

Monday 4 June 2012 2:58

This is exactly what's wrong with the medical system. Regardless of whose fault it was (I'm guessing the anesthesiologist), OP does not care about the fact that the girl woke up and possibly had a very traumatizing experience. All he's worried about is his job. I have no problem with a surgeon swearing. I have a problem with them not caring about how their patient feels. To those of you saying he probably was just worried about her, he made it very clear that he wasn't. Put yourself in the situation of the girl who was on the table.

Stormdriven37 6

Monday 4 June 2012 4:21

Obviously he did care, because the life of this girl is in his hands, and that will of course cause extreme stress, which is why he was cursing.

Cloudberry 10

Monday 4 June 2012 5:35

It's ******* people like you that make people like him need to worry about their jobs.

uniquechic21 12

Monday 4 June 2012 5:55

I never said he should be reported. I don't care that he cursed, and I realize it wasn't his fault that she woke up. That doesn't change the fact that he expressed in his FML that he was concerned about nothing more than his job without mentioning any concern for the patient's experience.

jewwybeanzzz 10

Monday 4 June 2012 9:09

What do you want him to say? "today, while performing a surgery on a little girl, she woke up and may be traumatized for life. FML" cuz that makes sense.

unknown_user5566 26

Monday 4 June 2012 3:17

To everyone admonishing OP for cursing and being unprofessional, have you never, ever cursed while working? Performing surgery, especially on a child, would be EXTREMELY stressful in my opinion. So OP let a few curses slip when the girl woke up- so what? If I were her parents, I would focus on the fact that he got her put back under so she wasn't in pain, and that she was alive by the end of it.