Today, while at a hospital, a prayer group circled me and started praying that God and the good doctors and nurses would heal me from the disease that disfigured my face. I was there to visit my sick grandmother. 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 took my grandma to the hospital to visit her estranged husband who she hasn't seen in years. After a thoroughly disasterous visit, we're waiting in the carpark and my gran strokes my face and tells me I have a lot of facial hair. I thought she was going to thank me. And I'm a girl. FML
Today, I saw an old friend while out and about. Since I don't leave the house very often, my friend was surprised to see me in person. He jokingly asked if someone was dying, and I cried in response. I was in fact going to the hospital to say goodbye to my grandma. FML
Today, my grandma miraculously survived a bout with pneumonia. She keeps saying, 'The Lord spoke to her' while she was comatose. While comatose, she had to be physically restrained because she would unconsciously mess with the medical equipment, and when she woke up, she was completely delirious. Yeah, no. FML
Today, I went to see my ill granddad in hospital. I saw lots of doctors around his bed, and they pronounced him dead, so I ran out crying. A little later, I found out that my granddad had been moved, and it was a different man in his bed. FML
Today, a number of people came to visit me in the hospital, including my grandparents. They called me "weak" and "a cowardly millennial" for going to the ER instead of sucking it up, and blamed me for rising healthcare costs. I had a compound fracture. FML
Today, after months of taking care of my grandma after a surgery, the doctors gave her a clean bill of health, and I finally got to sleep in my own bed. She passed away while I was at home. FML
Today, I had to get my picture taken for a volunteer badge at the hospital. My sister came home and told my parents that she'd had a horrible day at work. They showed her my picture to cheer her up. FML
Today, I had to go to the hospital. While I was there, my mom started hitting on a doctor. Later I saw them making out in the room next to me. FML
Today, one of my friends made it to school. He has been sick recently, missing days out of the week. When I saw him, I greeted him with, "Were you dying yesterday?" Apparently he wasn't, but his grandmother really did. FML
Today, I shaved my head because I heard that one of my good friends got cancer. I went to visit her in the hospital. She's not bald. FML
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iarefatal 9
Holy mother of God you can't be that ugly can you?
The_Thinker 18
I'd already said FYL by the time I read "... a prayer group circled me,".
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ImOnCrackk 4
OMG I probably wouldve laughed until they told me I had a "disforemed face".
Gunner69 8
Dang you must be REALLY ugly. Sucks to suck dosent it
buddy51 23
God works in mysterious ways. Good luck with your new prayer generated face!'
King_paradox 22
Go home, get into bed, Go to sleep, you have your warning that your day is going to get worse from there.
NurseJonathan 9
Mister Paradox, if it were that easy I'd be in bed for almost all of my life.
Jessie2410 15
Well, is your face disfigured? Maybe you just have a lot of acne, I could see that being called a disease. Either way, you should thank them. They're just trying to help you out.
monnanon 14
i'll probably get thumbed down for this but helping someone by praying is like changing your profile pic to help a charity. it makes you feel good but it does f all.
Dynosaur_dollie 38
There is no way in hell I would thank them. Circling someone is bad enough, but circling them in a chanting prayer circle is just brutal. Maybe I am a little crazy but I would freak out and not just because I don't follow their god. Can you imagine how creepy that would be a bunch of strangers circling around you chanting and not letting you leave. Sounds like a bad horror movie starting.
chosha_fml 27
#55 Actually it's not the same. Changing your profile pic can effect change (Google the Scientific American 26 March 2013 article, 'Will changing your Facebook profile picture do anything for marriage equality?') whereas a study on the effectiveness of prayer in curing illness showed that the group who KNEW they were being prayed for actually did WORSE than the ones who didn't know. :)
monnanon 14
did they do worse because they believed they only had to use prayer as a cure? and no changing your profile pic to a littlw red equals sign will not change the laws or even have any effect on the decision. its shows how many people are in support but as it is online and passive no one has to take any notice. if everyone who had that profile pic actually got off their ass and did something for the cause we may actually have marriage equality
chosha_fml 27
Seriously, read the article. It explains it all. It changes attitudes and encourages action outside of Facebook trends. And changing my profile pic was about expressing support for US friends waiting on the High Court decision, not about affecting the actual decision. And doing one thing on FB doesn't mean you do nothing elsewhere. It's not like we're sitting on FB thinking our profile pic is changing the world.
chosha_fml 27
Oh as to the other question, I think they did worse because maybe they felt like if they didn't get better they would be disproving the effect of prayer and that perception put pressure on them to get better. But that was conjecture not necessarily fact.
krazykyra 12
Aww/: poor, OP. I'm sorry. That was a pretty mean assumption for them to make.):
mattlw 25
Prayer is a good tool to use, but even the Bible says to do it in private.
NurseJonathan 9
I might be atheist, but I like to go in private to--...Er...Pray. Yeah that's right. I pray. Don't question me.
interesting33 37
I think people can pray together and that is fine - and pray for others like in a group and things. But they should have asked I think.
mattlw 25
I am definitely ok with prayer groups, but I agree that they should have asked. Why would you want to offend someone like this under the pretense of the name of God? Mistake in my eyes.
madgrinchhatter 12
Assholes
born_hustla 26
Damn.. That's messed up. Would like to see your face!
StaceeeP 23
the fact they thought my face was deformed wouldn't annoy me, the fact they forced their religion on me and though that god would be able to help would annoy me