Today, I finished my shift at the nursing home. There was too much snow on the roads, so most of us had to stay overnight. Not only did I not get to go home, I also got stuck sleeping in the same bed that a resident had died in the night before. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I got snowed in. At work. FML
Today, it was my first day at my new job at a nursing home. Not only were we short staffed, two residents passed away, and I got beaten up by an old man. FML
Today, I woke up to a quite frigid room, which wasn't out of the ordinary since my building's heat is broken. But I realized that the extra cold I was feeling was due to the snow piled up on my bed. It had snowed 20 inches last night. My mom had apparently opened my window. FML
Today, after moving hundreds of miles to take care of my beloved grandmother and working like mad for a week to make the house cozy and accessible for her, it was finally time to bring her home. Or it would have been, if she hadn’t died in her sleep last night. 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 offered to stay late at my delivery job because it was snowing and several people called out. An hour later I got rear ended. FML
Today, as I always do when we get a lot of snow, I shovelled the snow off my elderly neighbor’s driveway. I slipped and fell into a snowbank, breaking my collarbone, and she had to call 911 to help me out because I couldn't snow angel my way up. FML
Today, I got a phone call to say my workplace was closed due to extreme weather conditions. Looking forward to my day off, I then realised the boiler was broken and my house has no heating despite there being a foot of snow outside. I'm spending the day in bed, wearing all my clothes. FML
Today, I was very cold and tired, so I took a shower to warm up and went to bed. The minute I hopped into bed, it collapsed and broke. I have spent half-an-hour rearranging furniture to get the mattress on to the floor. Now I'm cold again. FML
Today, it was snowing really badly, so my boss said that everyone who drove to work could leave. But because I got the bus in, she said that I should stay and do a full day. By the time she eventually decided it was bad enough for me to leave, the buses were cancelled. FML
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thatfrenchguy 8
No wonder they call it the graveyard shift
lululatenight 28
I would have nightmares....
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Comments (96)
yeongji 31
It will take awhile to get used to. I work in the hospital and we have people sleeping in the viewing rooms at times.
skyeyez9 25
I am sure most of the beds there had someone die in them at some point.
kait154 7
That gives a whole new meaning to "on your death bed" :( mustve been quite uncomfortable, well think of it as the person who died lived a good life and is resting well.
WillDWhite 6
For those that don't say it to you directly, thank you for taking care of our loved ones.
TcheQ 12
And then? Fresh linen I hope
Dwidge 14
Am I the only one who doesn't find this disturbing. His death doesn't contaminate the bed; unless he died of something contagious.
HedgeFox90 26
Were you forced to sleep? If you had to sleep, then why not on a couch in a community area or the floor in an office? If you didn't want to sleep there, you could've found ways around it.
0h_Boy 26
You only had to do it for, what, one or two nights? I worked in one before. There will be other residents coming in who will spend weeks, if not years, sleeping in a bed like that. Some already are. Get off your damn high-horse
kevinsagirl2323 8
Well as long as the sheets have been changed I don't see the problem. people have probably died in every bed there