Today, I went to the hospital with a broken hand. They gave me a cast and some prescription pain medication. The only problem is that the bottle of medication is child-proof, I live alone and I can't open it with one hand. 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 tore a muscle in my back. At the hospital, I was prescribed some pain medication. My husband got me settled at home, with everything I needed within reach, and left for work. As I picked up the bottle to take the first pill, I knocked it on the floor. It rolled under the couch. FML
Today, my doctor finally prescribed me some medication for my arthritis. The cap was insanely well-secured, and my hands were too racked with pain to get it off. FML
Today, I struggled to open a childproof bottle, which, by the way, had the instructions printed on the lid. 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, while helping a child through a tantrum, I was kicked and my hand broke. The bone is completely in half and fixing it will require plates, screws, and surgery along with months of recovery. Another day on the job. FML
Today, I fell down the stairs and broke my arm. I went into hospital to get it put in a cast, but still went into school afterwards. I got written up for truancy because I didn't have a doctor's note. The cast was still on my arm. FML
Today, my doctor called and asked me when I could have my broken hand x-rayed again. I said the ER staff had told me it was a bad sprain over two weeks ago. I'm now in a full cast, and have to have my partially healed bones re-broken. There goes my summer. 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
Today, after years of being terrified of those biscuit cans that pop when you unwrap them, I finally decided I'd open one myself. I'm sitting in the hospital with a sliced hand from the lid and can feel therapy in my future. FML
Today, I cut myself with child-proof scissors. FML
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Top comments
klol_fml 11
thats not very handy
minichu 4
I think the best solution is hold the bottle between your thighs while sitting down and then twist the cap. Seems like it might work. Good luck!
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Comments (202)
mbuck87 19
Improvise for ***** sake. If you don't bother, it doesn't hurt enough to need them...
hewro_failure 11
Put the bottle in between your knees and twist the top with your free hand ... Do not put cap back on afterwards
maxman9650 0
whoever said you can kill pain with one hand, what about the carb ;]
judea95 16
Use your mouth?
Alexis2742 31
On most prescription bottles, one side is child lock and then you can flip it over and it's easy twist
picturescrazy 24
Most pharmacies will put a different lid on it for you if you ask.
Midnight_Cat 9
For goodness sakes. put the damn thing between your knees. hold it right with your knees and unscrew the damn thing. use your mouth too.
astrolaf 13
thats why you request it non-childproof from the pharmacy
magnetic_aura 26
This happened to me after I was hit by a car. My clavicle was broken on the left side and my whole right hand was torn up. My then boyfriend screwed the lid back on my pills before leaving for the day. I had to do some weird balancing act with a shelf, but where there's a will there's a way!
gotohell317 2
Maybe they can take the cap off for you and leave it off. Is that possible?