The Worst is Yet to Come
I work in a community residence for adults with mental illness. Most of them are very capable and independent. One girl who is 27 years old constantly acts really dumb for sympathy and will do dumb things because she can, I guess.
The first week she was admitted, she tripped on something getting out of bed and she fell on her foot and broke some of the small bones in the foot. I take her to get her cast and she gets the usual: “Don’t get the cast wet, use your crutches, elevate, etc.”
Since her bedroom was on the second floor, we had to send her back to her mother’s house for a few weeks since she would not be able to exit the building in time in case of an emergency. Well five days later, the boot to put over your cast comes in and we call her up saying we’ll bring it over.
Her response: “Well, I don’t think it’ll fit” “Why not?” We ask. “Because I cut my cast off. I got it wet and it was too tight.” They didn’t give her a second cast and she never used her crutches, claiming they were unstable and she would fall and get hurt if she used them.
Oh, but the worst was yet to come. Her foot never healed properly, and two months later she fell and broke it again. She’s since told us she wants her foot amputated because then it wouldn’t hurt so much. ~Logic~ Story credit: Reddit / PeruvianVipertooth