Today, my wife was in seemingly never-ending labor. It got so bad, I overheard a nurse in the doorway mutter to a coworker that she hoped my baby would just die or something, so she could finally go take a smoke break. 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 gave birth to a baby girl. Where was my husband after the agony finally ended? Standing just outside the room, flirting with a nurse. FML
Today, my very pregnant wife woke up in bed, grabbing her stomach and writhing in pain. Worried that the baby might be in distress, I asked her what was wrong. She gasped then let out what can only be described as a river of hot liquid shit all over herself and my legs. We both cried. FML
Today, my pregnant wife and I got separated while out shopping. She ended up having meltdown and crying so hard the manager had to call me over the PA. FML
Today, my wife opted for a home birth with a nurse and her mother. Her mother is such a baby-feral, men-are-bastards, hippie feminist dragon that not only did she yell at me when I tried to be in the room, she has now pushed me out of the house. I ended up sat in my car with only one shoe and no phone. FML
Today, my wife's water broke so I drove her to the hospital. After 16 hours without labor, I went home to get a little sleep. Four hours later I got the call and ran outside to find that my car was towed from my parking space. FML
Today, at work, we were gathered to be told some bad news. One of our colleagues would be taking indefinite leave because his wife had dropped their newborn baby. I accidentally laughed at the image. FML
Today, my husband was offered, and accepted, pain relief during an ultrasound on his scrotum, and I’m sat here remembering how I wasn’t offered any pain relief at all while birthing a 9lb baby, because I was left in the waiting room so long they told me it was too late for an epidural. FML
Today, I drove to the hospital to see my newborn. I went to the room, picked him out of the crate and held him. Then I heard the toilet flush and saw a woman who I didn't know come out. She screamed. My wife was in the room next door. FML
Today, a customer at work was having hiccups, so I suggested she should try to hold her breath for a while. Ten minutes later, she's talking to my manager about how I wanted her to "kill herself because of her severe medical condition." FML
Today, my pregnant wife paged my emergency line at work. Thinking she was in serious danger, I raced home and found her hysterically crying. When I asked her what was going on, she replied, "The dogs won't stop barking!" FML
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nerdyninjarobot 5
Holy shit that bitch needs to be fired. That is so out of line!
SolarLunix 21
Super unprofessional. Report her!
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Comments (233)
Fmlsea 28
wtf i hope you reported her and that she lost her job ! doesnt matter how long your wife is in labour for , that nurse should be doing her job and looking after your wife not wishing your baby would die so she could have a smoke. if a nurse said that to me while i was in labour i would be demanding a new nurse after i had given that one a piece of my mind since hitting them is illegal.
Fmlsea 28
are you crazy ?! the mother wouldnt of gone through 9 months of pregnancy and then a painful labour is she wanted her baby to die . **** some people dont think before they speak!
ScaredyPoots 6
Oh my god I would have demanded to speak to her supervisor! That is SO unprofessional!
raygray20 7
idk how its done up there but had u been in America you be very much capable of taking care of your family with no worries after she pulled that crap. what a **** she was
MetaFoxStar 11
I think you should report the nurse to her manager to your doctor and to the manager of the of that hospital wing. and make sure she can never work with children again. Someone like that shouldn't be allowed to be around babies. what if one has special needs it'll probs be too much work for her to care whether the blood sugar test was oh kay and she probs BSes tons of things on her job but ppls lives are on the line and she shouldn't be allowed to be a nurse for babies. maybe she could wash old ppl in the tub no she'd probs drown them. she should just work at a freaking envelope factory. just folding envelopes. that way no one will get hurt.
GhostFox 34
To anyone who has a medical professional of any kind say/do something like this, my advice to you, as the offspring of a nurse, is the following. 1: Get person's name. 2: Ask persons coworker to speak to supervisor (in a hospital, this is likely to be a charge nurse, which are assigned roughly 1 to a floor) 3: Keep going up chain of command until you get results. Some of you might be thinking 'isn't that a little over kill?' My answer to that is not just no, but hell no it isn't. Logic being that anyone in the medical field is supposed to alleviate suffering, however possible. Whether by explaining the issue or process until the patient understands, being physical or emotionally supportive, or the more common things that come to mind. What both the OP and post 58 said violate this, and the part of the Hippocratic Oath- "Above all else _do no harm_" - this doesn't just mean not to hurt the patient by physical means, but through ANY means. It doesn't matter if she'd had a bad day, or was tired of working where she did or as she did, what she'd seen and done, _nothing_ justifies mistreating a patient.
PrestonWolf 13
Well she'll get it in the end when she gets cancer and dies at 55. Hope your kido is in good health! Happy Babyness!!!!
emw7187 11
u did make a report right
dDailydDosage 8
Report her! That is just so ... No word can describe that. What kind of human being has that kind of mindset and works in that field nonetheless? My mother is a charge labor/delivery nurse and if anyone in her unit said anything like that. She'd have their ass thrown out on the street faster than they could blink.
citrusglass 22
Who said op deserved it? Really, how was he to blame in any way?