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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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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GmanG 0
Hahaha at #64 FYL :( Not lucky dude...
goblin_911 0
IRONY!!!!!!!!!!!
omghappy 0
SPOOOOOOOKY!!! this morning my dad was telling about how the big fear when he was a kid was stepping on a rusty nail! Hope you don't get lockjaw!!!
hellomynamekeyes 0
Oh, the irony.
Qender 0
You don't get tetanus from rusty nails. You only get tetanus if you get fecal matter from an animal that has tetanus in an open cut. That's right, you actually need to get infected poop in a wound. The rusty nail thing is a stupid myth, and so is dirt, that won't give it to you either. Yeah, dirt and rusty nails might have sick animal poop on them, but so might any other surface you get in a cut. It's just not that likely.
wannabemed 0
Actually, according to the center for disease control, the bacteria that cause tetanus are everywhere. Although there are naturally some tetanus bacilli in animal and human intestines, and therefore their feces, the animal does not have to be sick to have the bacteria in its waste. The main issue with stepping on rusty nails, or any nails for that matter, is that deep wounds are a risk factor in contracting tetanus, especially those "contaminated with dirt, feces, or saliva."
WinterBlue42 22
And tetanus thrives in the low-oxygen environment provided by rusty metal. So, it does not come FROM the rust, but the metal provides a perfect environment, as well as a means to enter the human body. (Via puncture wounds.)
RhymePrime 7
Where the hell were you running? A junkyard?
VietBoy 0
Oh wow FYL. Hope that you will recover. This reminds me of the time where my family and I was returning from a trip to Vegas and we were on our way back to California. The WHOLE van had to use the restroom so we stopped at an abandoned toolshed to relieve ourselves. Right when my dad told me to watch out for the nails around me I stepped right on one and it went through my converse shoes. It pierced the skin but just barely but just to be safe, we spent the next 15 minutes waiting while my dad was trying to suck some blood out of my foot. FM Dad's Life.
Short1_1993 0
Ow. Dod you end up gettin Tetanus?
rowergirl 0
That sucks!
mikel81 0
Who has a doctors appointment for a tetanus shot? I thought that was something you did [i]after[/i] you step on a rusty nail.