Today, I had a plaster cast removed from my arm. After telling the nurse it felt like the saw was cutting my skin, she tells me there is no way that it could touch my skin and that I was being paranoid. She cracked open the cast. Burns, blisters and bleeding skin were revealed. 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 went to the hospital to get a cast that I have been wearing for the past three months removed from my wrist. Thanks to said cast, I couldn't have any summer fun at all. The doctor took a final X-ray and said, "Well look at that, your wrist wasn't fractured to begin with." FML
Today, I finally got the cast off my leg after being unable to walk for 6 weeks, watching daytime TV or playing my husband's Xbox all day. The second the plaster came off, I tried to stand up, tripped over the doctor's foot and broke the apparently still not fully healed leg again in the same spot. FML
Today, I sliced my arm open on the weekend, patched it with a fabric bandaid. Had an allergic reaction to the bandaid, arm now swollen, blistering and keeping-me-awake itchy. Pharmacist's advice? "Oooh, that looks bad. Better put a bandaid on that." FML
Today, I sliced a deep gash into my thumb while carving up bagels. After putting a plaster on, I returned to my room to relax, where I lit a candle. The flame from my new lighter shot up, and set fire to the plaster on my thumb. Now I have a cut AND several burns. FML
Today, I re-dislocated my arm trying to get it out of the cast it was in because I didn't want to pay the $50 dollar fee to get it taken off. FML
Today, I finally got my cast taken off my leg after a long month of crutches. I was so excited, until four dead spiders fell out. FML
Today, I was at the doctor's getting some skin scraped off the bottom of my foot for some tests. As soon as the doctor grabbed my foot, it tickled and I accidentally kicked him in the face. During this, the blade sliced my foot open. FML
Today, while observing a surgery, I was asked to open a glass ampule of adrenaline. Not only did I break it and get it everywhere, I sliced open my thumb bad enough to need stitches. FML
Today, a nurse berated me for not being able to lift my leg myself so she could put a cast on. My leg is broken in two places. FML
Today, I was laying on the couch with a cast on my broken ankle. My brother thought it would be funny to shoot my cast with a high-powered pellet gun. It went straight through the cast and now I need to go back to the hospital. FML
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missrubyruby 0
THAT HAPPENED TO ME! the nurse said the same thing. I have the scar to prove it ..
mnwv 3
lol she's and idiot, no nurse should ever say something like that.
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Comments (186)
Spongii101 12
That never happened to me. The nurse put the saw blade on her own skin to prove it would cut. I call fake. Sorry.
FrankHotpants 31
all you gotta do is make a big scene and u could have a lawsuit.
eject 0
the saw cant cut skin. that was all just from your cast.
Pagetaylor 0
This DEFINITELY happens. I was getting a cast cut off and the nurse neglected to slide a piece of plastic between my skin and the cast. When I told her I felt like it was cutting me, I was assured that the saw was just pulling hairs. When the cast came off it was all bloody inside and there was a laceration right where she cut. I still have the scar.
LemonStarship 5
That's horrible.
sealed_with_a_sm 2
sue!!!!
sweet_candy_ 17
Nurses are evil.
roarshelbi 1
That is horrible..
sikkar 0
Saw her back :D
kabu3000 4
Are you in America? Can't you sue the hospital for a few millions?
Kua_Mei 0
What does being in America have to do with it? Can't you file a reasonable lawsuit in other countries?
spanelli 16
I would have a lot to say about your statement, but you're German. I'm from Germany, and moved to America a few years back. Americans really don't sue nearly as much as people say. They just sue for stupid reasons most of the time.
brennan677 0
i always wondered what germany was like.