Today, I rescheduled my doctor's appointment for a tetanus shot to go camping with my friends. While running on a path at the camp site, I stepped on a rusty nail that went right through my shoe and into my foot. Maybe I should have kept my appointment. 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, after spending the day at work avoiding all hard manual tasks that may harm me, I had a table dropped on my foot. I broke my toe, split my nail and had to get a tetanus shot. I was avoiding injury as I was supposed to be performing in a figure skating exhibition this evening. 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, I was at my friends' farm and we decided that we wanted to go to their old treehouse. When we got down there, it turned out my friend Cat had forgotten her shoes. Being a gentleman, I lent her my sandals. I then climbed the treehouse, fell out, and got a nail through my foot. FML
Today, I went on a camping trip. I already had a bad back, and then the guy in charge took us on a hike. My shoes were too small, and now I'm hobbling around with a bad back and foot. Every time I limp, it hurts my back, but if I walk normally, it hurts my foot. FML
Today, while hiking and wearing sandals, I stubbed my toe. This wouldn't have been so bad had it not been into a cactus with 3 inch thorns. FML
Today, mere hours after getting my knee out of plaster and walking normally again, I stepped on a giant nail, which went through my shoe and came out of the top of my foot. Surgery on the splintered bone, bandages, and no putting weight on it for at least 2 weeks. Here I go again. FML
Today, years after I stepped on a nail and had the wound stitched, I got an X-ray. I've had serious trouble walking, and it turns out I had 2.5 inches of nail living in the sole of my foot, stabbing up into my ankle joint. I now need major surgery. FML
Today, I was accidently stabbed in the shin with a pen, right before a long weekend. It will need stitches. FML
Today, I was hiking, and four miles away from my car and civilization, I tripped over a rock into a cactus. I used duct tape, which ripped all the hair off my arms and legs but ignored the spikes. FML
Today, I noticed one of my toenails was getting super long, so I cut it. In doing so, I accidentally ripped it off and it started bleeding. As I went to get something to stop it from bleeding, I got a huge splinter in my little toe, causing a painful infection. I think I should just go back to bed. FML
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SUSAltd 0
*it hurt just reading it
SUSAltd 0
It just reading it... ouch. FYL, hope it gets better.
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urmomsass 0
FYL but at least you can keep the nail and make a very very small amount of thermite!
marz88 0
You seem to be sadly unfamiliar with Murphy's law. Which basically sums up every FML on here.
evan_789 7
Ydi for camping!!!!!!!!!
bskballa92 0
I moderated this one, I voted against it but whatever.
DKKNC 0
It's not an FYL or a YDI. Really. Just get the tetanus shot when you're done camping; you won't DIE if you don't. For those who think this sounds RIDICULOUSLY painful: A few years back, I was running barefoot through the sideyard of the childhood house my mom was selling. The house was 81 years old, and I assume the roofing nails were about as old. These were long, thick nails, and VERY rusty. As I ran, one impaled (note: this means it went all the way through) my foot. It wasn't an 'OMG THE PAAAIIINNNN I'M GONNA DIE FML' pain, it was dull; in fact, I didn't even realise what had happened until I stopped running at my destination and saw the nail in my foot. It was one of those 'Oh, well. Hi there!' things. It hurt more later, and only because I thought about it. But a razor nick feels worse, I promise you. To the OP: We waited quite a while to get the shot. Years later, here I am, fine. I have a scar, but no nasty tetanus issues.
SuperSpore 0
You had to be either on drugs, or your leg was asleep. Or something. There's no way that whole thing is true.
DKKNC 0
Well, I was 12 or 13, so that rules out drugs. I couldn't have run if my leg were asleep, so that rules THAT one out, and...'or something?' Is that all you could come up with? Believe it or not (you obviously choose the latter), that story is indeed true. I can show you the scar if you truly don't believe me~ Now, I DID feel something in my foot on impact, but it wasn't anything I could call pain until I actually saw it, and even then, it took a while. You'd expect something like that to hurt a lot more; maybe that's why you don't believe me. I didn't, at the time. I find my story a bit more believable than OP's, on that note: What doctor sets up an appointment for tetanus? I just went to RediMed for mine. :/
wannabemed 0
Actually, when someone is badly injured, their body goes into what is commonly referred to as a "fight or flight" response. They don't feel the pain immediately, so that if they are in danger they have time to get away before collapsing. That's why when people break bones or a step on a nail they often say it doesn't hurt at first.
hwkfan1 10
yup I've gotten stitches twice on my forehead and cheek it didn't hurt at all one time was when I was sledding and I hit a fire hydrent and I actually asked my friend if I was bleeding cuz I seriously didn't know
x_Leopard_x 1
That sounds like it hurt, and now you NEED the shot. :]
triplethreat13 0
a nail went halfway through my foot when i was 6. i don't remember if i'd had a tetanus shot but i'm perfectly fine now, years later. i've got the scar and i had some pain, but tetanus isn't very common and all you need to do is get the shot when you get home and you'll be fine.
bookworm124 0
Irony, what a joker you are. I hope you feel better. :)
suri23 11
Ya think?
valuemeal2 1
You have to have an appointment to get a tetanus shot? You need to find a doctor who will let you just go in, wait for 5 minutes, and then get it. Like mine, for example.