Today, a patient was late for a psychiatry appointment, after having missed his previous two. I am the medical student on the team that was supposed to do his assessment. I said, "You snooze, you lose." Everyone stopped and looked at me. Apparently, he missed them because he has narcolepsy. FML
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Thanksgiving
Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
Today, after countless nights of no sleep and only some spontaneous naps, I was finally seeing a sleeping doctor to analyze the problem. I missed the appointment because I ended up sleeping through my alarm after not being able to sleep at all last night. FML
Today, after I'd finally decided to see a doctor about my anxiety and insomnia, I was so nervous about what the doctor would think of me that I had anxiety attacks that kept me from sleeping a wink all night. I ended up oversleeping and missing the appointment I was so nervous about. FML
Today, I got my ass kicked by my boss at work. Why? Because I missed my shift on Saturday, because I slept through my alarms and the phone calls from my co-workers, and I woke up three hours later in a state of panic. This is all because of a medicine I'm on for migraines. FML
Today, I went to a job interview. The person giving me my interview was late, and while waiting for them I fell asleep. When they arrived, they didn't even bother interviewing me because they thought I was irresponsible since I fell asleep because they were late. FML
Today, I was told I have narcolepsy, and I've it for a year and a half. When asked why I didn't go to a doctor before, I answered that I'd always assumed it was a normal adult thing to fall asleep randomly because of how everyone says they're always exhausted. Apparently not. FML
Today, my boyfriend had an appointment he had to wait months for, after he finally agreed to try to figure out what's making him so tired all the time. He slept through it. FML
Today, I had the class clown of my preschoolers oversleep our daily 15-minute nap. Not wanting to spare any more class time on his disrupting jokes, I let the headache sleep. After another 10 minutes we called an ambulance. He had a stroke. FML
Today, I discovered I have narcolepsy. During a driving test. FML
Today, I'm doing the school run. I went to bed early and took a sleeping pill for my insomnia so I could be productive. Even if I could sleep past my partner snoring like a cave bear with sinus infection, it turns out that my sleeping pills make me hyper. The next person who says ADHD is fun is getting slapped. FML
Today, I set practically ten alarms because I absolutely could not oversleep for an important appointment. I woke up two hours early, panicked that I'd missed it, and couldn't fall back asleep. I spent the entire appointment looking like I hadn't slept at all. FML
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Top comments
Lia_Mackenzie 4
Yeeeeeeeeaaaaahh, you're the kind of person I fear achieving a medical degree. ...You DO know you're allowed to read (and pay attention to) the case files...right?
juche 3
Wow, next time, read the patient's chart before going to meet with him. If we nursing students can do it, surely you medical students can do it too.
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Comments (148)
thecryingpotato 0
man you are a bitch this is why i hate psychiatrists. they think they know everything
dcstream 0
YDI For not being a ******* psychic and knowing he has Narcolepsy. I mean, it's totally normal for people to ask, "Hey, do you have a medical condition that will stop you from attending an appointment?" Now that I completely over-analyzed this situation and jumped to conclusions, I'm going to give you a long list of vile insults.
derriduh 0
No one is expecting him to be a psychic. What I do expect however, is a certain level of professionalism from someone studying to be a DOCTOR. YDI for being an unprofessional ass.
wheretonow 0
Oh god, this is my favorite part of FML. You screwed up, it was funny, and now we get to read about it. I can almost promise you that the end of the world will not be the result of ban puns. Thank you for being "an unprofessional ass." YDI
lnf9ohfour 0
i decided to read the comments in hope of finding out what narcolepsy is, but i guess im the only one who doesnt know.. oh well, off to urbandictionary.com i go!
toughluck08 0
narcolepsy is a chronic sleep disorder. if you didn't know before, use context clues and/or google. welcome to the 21st century.
letitbe56 0
You're going to urbandictionary for that? Do you do all your research there? I'm not sure what earthly reason you would have had to think that "narcolepsy" was some kind of slang term. I really, really hope you learn about this new thing called "google" in the near future.
jewelzgalore 0
Narcolepsy is horrible. It causes people to fall asleep at random times in the day. They might even be driving and doze off. But seriously dude, psychiatric patients are the last people you want to be judging. YDI
blueorchid_fml 0
lol thats halarious, what a pun
hahaohwell 0
sweeeeeeeet
DoctorDoomed_fml 0
Dude, FYL. That's way too wrong to be anything you could have anticipated. Pretty funny though. Awful luck.
phonyreal98 0
And that's why we read the charts!
kcbargeles 0
hahahaa..... unlucky