Painful and Health: Old school cool

Old school cool

By omfgitburns - 06/01/2011 14:54

Today, I had a plaster cast removed from my arm. After telling the nurse it felt like the saw was cutting my skin, she tells me there is no way that it could touch my skin and that I was being paranoid. She cracked open the cast. Burns, blisters and bleeding skin were revealed. FML

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Today, I went to the hospital to get a cast that I have been wearing for the past three months removed from my wrist. Thanks to said cast, I couldn't have any summer fun at all. The doctor took a final X-ray and said, "Well look at that, your wrist wasn't fractured to begin with." FML

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By Anonymous - 10/05/2022 10:00

Today, I finally got the cast off my leg after being unable to walk for 6 weeks, watching daytime TV or playing my husband's Xbox all day. The second the plaster came off, I tried to stand up, tripped over the doctor's foot and broke the apparently still not fully healed leg again in the same spot. FML

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By sore - 21/01/2009 01:08 - Australia

Today, I sliced my arm open on the weekend, patched it with a fabric bandaid. Had an allergic reaction to the bandaid, arm now swollen, blistering and keeping-me-awake itchy. Pharmacist's advice? "Oooh, that looks bad. Better put a bandaid on that." FML

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By opposableouch - 27/10/2009 18:46 - United Kingdom

Today, I sliced a deep gash into my thumb while carving up bagels. After putting a plaster on, I returned to my room to relax, where I lit a candle. The flame from my new lighter shot up, and set fire to the plaster on my thumb. Now I have a cut AND several burns. FML

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By flaps - 19/08/2009 21:02 - United States

Today, I re-dislocated my arm trying to get it out of the cast it was in because I didn't want to pay the $50 dollar fee to get it taken off. FML

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By dasbooot - 30/04/2009 04:53 - United States

Today, I finally got my cast taken off my leg after a long month of crutches. I was so excited, until four dead spiders fell out. FML

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By Anonymous - 06/01/2011 07:35

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

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By sorethumb - 15/12/2015 23:39 - United Kingdom - Bookham

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

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By cerulean - 10/10/2017 01:30

Today, a nurse berated me for not being able to lift my leg myself so she could put a cast on. My leg is broken in two places. FML

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By brandogg - 30/04/2016 00:11 - United States - Clovis

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

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missrubyruby 0

Thursday 6 January 2011 18:57

THAT HAPPENED TO ME! the nurse said the same thing. I have the scar to prove it ..

mnwv 3

Thursday 6 January 2011 18:58

lol she's and idiot, no nurse should ever say something like that.

Comments

BubbaDoose 0

Monday 10 January 2011 8:11

lol same thing happened to me after my 14th birthdate! haha the nurse? sued and fired! sweet sweet revenge!

legend831 6

Monday 10 January 2011 10:28

just sue dat beezie, and say forced through pain

lorienleaflady 0

Wednesday 12 January 2011 8:05

If you don't sue the nurse herself (though she did act like a bitch) then go after the hospital. They hired a bad employee and didn't keep their equipment in the right condition.

Aretrein 0

Wednesday 12 January 2011 18:18

Photos asap, refuse to pay treatment bills, call an attorney.

MollyXD124 7

Monday 14 February 2011 20:14

i got cut with the saw thing too. the lady told me it was impossible and put the saw up to her finger to show me. of course nothing happened, but when the cast was off, it cut my leg and it was bleeding pretty bad.

jdawg2010 0

Sunday 19 June 2011 21:09

SUE. NOW. that's ridiculous. ugh. FYL.

Kskotzke 0

Thursday 14 July 2011 10:43

I say sue them

mnpeters09 0

Monday 1 August 2011 22:29

uhhh...bullshit? my dad is a surgeon and I have had many casts removed. the saws that they are supposed to use to remove casts are unable to cut skin. he demonstrates on his hand first then on mine everytime to prove it won't hurt. sounds like the hospital you went to wasn't using the right kind of saw. you could definitely have a malpractice case unless your making this up.