Today, I was cleaning one of my elderly patient's teeth. After finishing and reminding her to floss, I realised she had died. Supposedly she was dead for a good 20 minutes. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, while at my job as a hairdresser, I was giving an elderly client a perm and I thought she'd fallen asleep. She'd died. FML
Today, I was working at a hospital-level rest home. I was making the rounds when I noticed a woman was sitting in her (electric) wheelchair in the middle of the hall. Going closer, I saw her battery was flat so I said, "Uh-oh! Looks like you've died." She bawled her eyes out and said, "Not yet." FML
Today, I was volunteering at a nursing home calling bingo numbers. One woman stood up and started making noises, so I assumed she had won and started clapping. She then fell on the floor and died of a heart attack. I essentially applauded her death. FML
Today, at my job as a hotel housekeeper, I accidentally entered the room of someone who hadn't left yet. To my horror, the man inside was having a massive heart attack. I just found out he passed away, despite immediate medical intervention. FML
Today, after months of taking care of my grandma after a surgery, the doctors gave her a clean bill of health, and I finally got to sleep in my own bed. She passed away while I was at home. FML
Today, I accidentally let a huge one rip while tending to an older patient at the nursing home where I work. The patient passed away shortly thereafter. Coincidence? FML
Today, the old lady I've been taking care of and running errands for died. She hadn't paid me yet. FML
Today, I was driving and stopped behind a person at a stop sign. Their car didn't move for about 1 minute. I got out of my car yelling at the person. It was an old woman. She wasn't breathing. FML
Today, I made the mistake of telling my dentist that my dog died. She spent the next half-hour talking about her pets and how they died. I ended up crying in her dentist's chair. FML
Today, I spent nearly two hours listening to our cleaning lady talking about her son's infected penis, her fear of dentists, how to catch and kill ducks, her husband's childhood and her supposedly murdered dog. She ended up crying and left without cleaning. FML
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whymee55 6
brush your teeth or you will get old and die!
sunrisetosunset 0
Oh my God. And I want to be a dentist...
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Comments (211)
grevatious 0
well at least she will have clean teeth in her other life...nah but I agree **** her life "today, I was at the dentist having my teeth cleaned. I died, FML" haha
GLaDOS8899 14
How could she write an FML if she was dead?
dellama10 0
i doubt that this is true, or that you're even a dentist. most dentist's don't clean teeth, they check them for cavities when the hygienist is done cleaning. furthermore, if this was during the actual process of cleaning, there would normally be several times when you would say 'open wide so i can rinse with water' 'now tighten your lips'(when they use the mini vacuum to suck out the water and toothpaste) in the course of 20 minutes. In which case, if this were true, you probably would have noticed she was non responsive, and then noticed that she wasn't breathing. even if you'd just kept working, you would have noticed that her mouth was hanging wide open even after you stopped.
Rainbow35 6
57- Maybe OP is a dentist and hygienist? :/ It is a recession. :P Also, I've had my teeth cleaned lots of times, and they've never said anything to me during it. There's also a good chance that OP was exaggerating when they said 20 minutes... I always do that unintentionally, anyway. And I don't think breathing is usually that obvious, OP might have assumed that the person was breathing out of their nose, slowly? I'm sure he wasn't exactly expecting her to die, and would have just continued assuming she was alive until proven otherwise, like the FML says. Although I wouldn't know...
Zebidee 9
My cleaning is always done by my dentist. It's hardly the strangest thing in the world. The assistant turning out to be a **** star was right up there on the list though...
bjkjr 2
douche. don't talk to me about being one.
sorryinadvance 0
YDI for help the elderly
chearios 0
Awkward...
zazooftanzania 4
thats the most selfish post ive ever seen the women is dead and all u can think abt is u having to clean her teeth oh well at least she would rocking it in the funneral so put a big smile on her
paprikacha 9
Hon, I don't think the 'cleaning her teeth' was the point behind this FML.
projectgaz 0
This is a sad tale - A little worrying that you didn't notice a patient had been unresponsive and not breathing for 20 minutes, especially considering you were working on her airway for that entire time! Also, why did you post this in the 'love' section...?
Zebidee 9
*goes to check* OMG!! Bahahahahahaaaaa!!!
madgolden 0
That's horrible....
rhm2084 1
now she has beautiful teeth ... in heaven
Luckysam1984 0
I have been around dead people and right after you die your bowels evacuate. How could you not notice that.
chazzywazzy654 22
She's elderly so could have been using adult diapers