Today, I couldn't sleep and in the process of tossing and turning I did something very painful to my back. I spent 4 years in the marine corps infantry, but laying in a bed kicks my ass. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I awoke to an excruciating pain in my back from sleeping in the same position all night. I can't wipe my own ass. I've already gone to shit twice. FML
Today, I pinched a nerve in my shoulder while pulling the bedcovers higher in the morning. After excruciating pain all day, I climbed back into bed at night, twisting my knee in the process. FML
Today, I woke up after a 16-hour shift, and my back is out. I worked it in order to "enjoy" my 2 days off. I can barely move. FML
Today, I woke up and I'm still in the Marine Corps. FML
Today, I went to a yoga class, thinking it would be good for my stiff calf from running. I pulled my back out doing the downward dog. Now can't get out of bed. FML
Today, I'm recovering from my second back surgery. I survived four years in the Army with one combat tour without major injury, only to destroy my back the day after discharge by lifting my mother-in-law's suitcase into the trunk of her car. FML
Today, after a long day at work, my legs were aching by the time I got home. Tired, I tried to go to bed early. Now the only thing preventing me from sleeping is the pain in my legs. It’s 4 a.m. now and no luck. FML
Today, I woke up with my back super sore. I couldn’t get out of my bed without crying and great difficulty. The last time my chronic pain was like this it went on for three months and I could barely move. It was absolutely awful. FML
Today, as I was trying to get out of bed, my foot began sliding across the floor. I instinctively tried to balance myself, only for the new angle to cause my right hip to painfully and loudly dislocate, making me fall face-forward into my dresser. Back stuck in bed after three days of freedom. FML
Today, after going to the bathroom I went to bed. I have a very sturdy bookshelf that sticks halfway to the right of the door as I enter my bedroom. I had dumbly turned off the lights as I didn't want to bother with them before bed. I ended up kneeing the bookshelf, hard, now I'm wide awake and in pain. FML
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hahaha6 0
sigh...... #54 was trying to tell the idiot commenter to shut up, give our armed forces some respect, and lets see THEM try to do 4 years in the Marines(because they most likely wouldn't make it). That was the point of their comment..... Very relevant......
Joe2794 0
Why don't you go into the Marine for 4 years? You won't be able to survive that long.
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Comments (80)
redbluegreen 41
Being in the marines and hurting yourself later has nothing in common with each other. Get it checked out if you have to. The irony is (sorta) here, but it's not funny.
Xero3g 5
You expect the Marines to **** you up. Not the same with your bed.
worlds123dumbest 4
Why does a FML have to be funny?
Jimbo2000 0
oh wow, you have a bad back. so do I, but I am not botching about it
metal27928 2
My XO threw his back out in Iraq... Brushing his teeth... funniest thing to watch.
JarJarBinks_fml 0
Evilbeagle wtf? They're complaining about the fact this is an fml, not that his back is hurt. Learn some insight
Evilbeagle 0
Hurting one's back is an FML as far as I am concerned. So, wtf? People on here act like know it alls that wouldn't be crying like little girls if they had a serious back injury. I don't know if this guy's injury is necessarily serious, but slamming him for complaining about it is not only kind of cruel, but stupid. Learn some empathy.
Katie1613 0
Ok first thing I think it's a good fml and everyone on here that doesn't respect this guys fml and thinks they have to say stupid stuff needs to go fall off a cliff! Personally I know how bad back injuries hurt when I was 5 my dad beat me and threw me up against a porcilin window seal and broke my spine and I had to have surgury and to this day if I bend the wrong way It paralizes me completely until my doctor fixes it So think first before u critize people and what their going through
redbluegreen 41
I don't think they're dissing the back injury itself (which can be a very serious thing), just the fact that he's comparing it to being in the marines. They have little relevance to each other.
Xero3g 5
Ah, the glories of childhood...
Hiimhaileypotter 53
Actually it is relevant... He didn't sustain injuries in the Marine Corps, but while sleeping in a bed he hurt his back. It makes sense and is relevant.
Evilbeagle 0
Actually, I do see the "comparison". This guy spent four years in the Marines, which is not exactly skipping through daisies, where he could have easily hurt his back, yet he did it in his own bed instead. I think it makes the FML factor even worse.
redbluegreen 41
The OP could've also gotten older since being in the marines too. In those four years, there's plenty of times they might've been hurt in other ways, but it just wasn't their back. It could be ten years later or more for all you know.
Evilbeagle 0
This is true, and a good point, but not necessarily what the OP has led us to believe.
redbluegreen 41
But they don't supply enough information to say either way. They could've just gotten out, or started a family and had four kids by now. If it was their first night home, that'd probably be the worst. Then again, your body could then say "ohh, I no longer have to be so wound up!" and then you sleep funny. That happens too. That's why some people gain weight after marriage. Their body changes with it's circumstances.
Evilbeagle 0
You're right, they don't. However, because we don't know that, and because the person is making that comparison, while it would be wrong for any of us (myself included) to assume, it would be logical to deduce that this person hasn't been out that long. With or without that information, it's still pretty crappy to mess up one's back, especially in such a simple way. The way some people are acting on here about it is pretty disgraceful. Having had a back injury that ruined a good year of my life, I really feel for people that have had similar or worse experiences and really think that people on here who are so willing to be nasty toward the OP, whatever their reasoning, deserve to know what it's like.
redbluegreen 41
So we're giving the benefit of the doubt? I wish the OP could've been more specific, or fill us in. This FML sounds like something many of my relatives would say, even if ten or twenty years have past since said event. It doesn't help their situation, nor does it add to the story, it's just being thrown around in normal conversation. I'm also starting to wonder if the OP could've hurt himself during his service, but it just brought it out being home. Or they ignored some of the pain, and then it came back to hurt them later. Back injuries, or any injury is never fun, but no one can truly talk about it unless they've experienced it in some form or another.
Evilbeagle 0
You don't have to give him the benefit of the doubt. I am, though, mainly because I feel it's more likely that this isn't something happening 20 years after the fact, and it's not something worth reading that much into. Former Marine, presumably a "tough guy", is done in by his bed. That's really all I need to know.
Evilbeagle 0
It's possible, but we don't know that for a fact as we are not his physicians.
valuemeal2 1
Ouch. Hope you have a good chiropractor.
quiturbitchin 0
Agreed, I have back pains from my time in the US Army and my chiropractor helps me out a lot more than "take motrin, drink water, drive on" mentality.
Lexia_fml 0
No FML, just a pretty dumb person 4 yrs of usmc will most likely leave you with some kind of back pain Even if it doesn't manifest itself til later This is a disgrace to us us citizens, much less the usmc And no, I don't think this is a big deal, or the FML would've been a sentence or two longer Did I say back pain is no big deal? No, I've had to watch my mom lay in bed for days because of it.
snoopy24_fml 0
disgrace to us citizens and the marines? are you for real? we don't know the whole story, so stfu.
Lexia_fml 0
we know enough of the story, dbag the fact that he can't make simple connections makes him an idiot and you even more so for defending him
kitteh 0
That's what you get for being in the army.
quiturbitchin 0
Hey #30, were you born retarded or did you work your whole life to be that stupid?
Peterjames_fml 0
hahahahahaha nice one you made my day. Thank you quiturbitchin.
itsgen 16
#30 ur an ass!! ppl like him are the ones who make ur life easier FUCKK!! i HATE ppl like you, soo STUPID! and ungrateful
Griffith_fml 0
Oorah brother, I can see the irony in this. Fighting holes vs. beds, who'd a thought it huh? Goodluck man, glad you got out ok, I got a year till EAS