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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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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
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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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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)
FYLDeep 26
I like how Walgreens is starting to sell meds with those lids you can screw on upside down to bypass the child proof hassle. I'm sure if you went to a place like that you could ask them to fit the lid that way when you first get them. Just something to think about for the future I guess.
laurenzo16 0
When the going gets tough, the tough get going!
Tyger44 1
Lol,the picture.
ilarsnl 9
Ask your neighbours, or are you forever alone?
shaun25 0
break it open with your cast
julian24245 0
Well there's seething else you can do with one hand that will take your mind off the pain. ;)
leadman1989 16
How did you break your hand? Was it masturbation? If so I have to hand it to you girl. You really must have done a bang up job!
w3p0n7 1
YET you can type using capitals, comas, ect. just fine?
THE_A_TEEN 28
YET, the fml could have happened sometime ago, or recieved help.
Eviemeli 16
It's pretty easy to type neatly with one hand - as long as you take your time and don't rush it.
raphdragon02 8
Eh?
xgetxbentx 13
It is possible to type correctly with a cast, your fingers are generally free so you can poke a button. You can't grasp something in your hand, that would be OP's delima. OP could also have an iPhone or something similar where typing with one finger is relatively simple for everything.
VeganVampyre 27
Now that's interesting... I've never typed using comas before. Not sure how you do that... But anyway, it's really not difficult to type with one hand. To prove that point- I typed this entire comment one-handed.
kimmiekimmiekong 0
I had a cast on and I drove with it, typed with it! usually use one hand or use ur fingers that are free!!
karagarren 8
Moderators will make corrections in punctuation but it is still possible to do with one hand.
raphdragon02 8
press the bottle against your chest with your forearm and use the other hand to twist it open
wriptidez 0
ya ask for help and put them in a container that u can open eaisly but keep ur pills out of reach of kids and pets!!!
JadeWalker 14
the poster is alone remember
jeebus565 1
Like a good neighbor, state farm is THERE!