chew your f*cking food.

[cesfx]

Wow... Glad you are fine.

Why strain when you can blend/juice?
There are some simple easy recipes for great soups.
I guess they shouldn't be too hot too, it doesn't help the healing.

For a velouté or vellutata,
You just put in a pot the "usual suspects": onion celery and carrot, then you add the main ingredient like pumpkin/butternut squash or potatoes, or legumes like soaked brown lentils... Tomatoes or any ther veg you like, meat or fish if looking for substance.
Then salt, herbs (avoiding chilli and spicy stuff in your case)
Top it up with some extra virgin, parmesan or blue cheese.. and blend it all.
Ingredients don't even need to be chopped much cause of the blending later.

I use an instant pot, which is an electric pressure pot, and those are done in 20min from beginning to end, otherwise is about 45min...

I hope you like ice cream!

 

[Frederick Foresight]

Good thread, and I'm glad you're okay. Serves as a much-needed reminder and cautionary tale for some of us who have a tendency to wolf down our food, so thanks for that.

In addition to the other liquid diet recommendations, is oatmeal a possibility, using either oats or oat bran, while you're recovering? Perhaps fortified with ground flaxseed. And I imagine you'd have to let it stand for quite a while. Perhaps even refrigerate it overnight and heat it up again the next day. I also add black chia seeds when soaking overnight, but you might want to skip that for a time.

As I recall, you're not a fan of milk. But the above ingredients together with skim milk and unsweetened baking cocoa, and maybe even a bit of wheat bran, make for a satisfying meal. (Refrigerated overnight in your case!)

 

[speedo]

Everyone should know how to apply the Heimlich, it's not a complex procedure.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

I used to take a lot of vitamins/minerals/health food supplements. I thought I was cool because I could swallow all of them at once. As I took more and more, I had a goal of taking 100 at once. (Talk about fucking dumb). I made it up to around 92 if I remember correctly.

100? Are you even hungry the rest of the day?

 

[Baron]

I really don't want to relay the story but I choked on some nuts (almonds, thanks) this morning and almost didn't make it to be Heimliched by Finn. So disaster averted but he literally saved my life. It was surreal for many reasons but I can tell you what it felt like to loss consciousness while choking. Literally myopic-vision and loss of hearing. Very strange.

Ironic as I had saved a choking victim at a restaurant in the S of France when I was at the conagency (with my parents who were staying in Aix).

So be mindful of what you're eating and masticate enough to generate pre-digestive action (saliva production).

The whole area is really sore so wife pushing to see if something is wrong. I know I am going to get trolled incessantly for this, but it may save a life. Don't eat like a Duck.

Wow, that's crazy.

The problem, at least from what I've seen, is that people often choke when they are shit-faced drunk and their friends are drunk.

A few months ago, about 10 of us got a party bus and went to EDC in Orlando. Everything was fine at the festival, but on the way home, we stopped and got a ton of McDonalds junk via the drive-thru. By the time we got back to my buddy's house, we all got off the bus carrying half-eaten burgers and fries in our hands, and one of the guys choked as he was walking away from the bus. He stumbled to a nearby railing that was on the side of some stairs that led up to the front porch of the house, and I will never forget the sounds he was making as he leaned over the railing with a purple face, so I ran over and wrapped my arms around him from behind but luckily the food dislodged before I could even start an aggressive Heimlich on him. I was definitely not sober and my friends were so shit-faced, they didn't even know it happened, which is the scariest part of all. I'm just happy it ended the way it did, but damn, it was a close one for sure.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

Yeah, it's sobering how life can suddenly hang in the balance.

 

[Option_Attack]

Damn. All that from choking on a nut? There should be a masticate song made for this.

I would normally make a dumb crack about "masticate" but choking isn't really funny.

Glad Des made it. ET would be a much duller place!

 

[destriero]

Wow, that's crazy.

The problem, at least from what I've seen, is that people often choke when they are shit-faced drunk and their friends are drunk.

A few months ago, about 10 of us got a party bus and went to EDC in Orlando. Everything was fine at the festival, but on the way home, we stopped and got a ton of McDonalds junk via the drive-thru. By the time we got back to my buddy's house, we all got off the bus carrying half-eaten burgers and fries in our hands, and one of the guys choked as he was walking away from the bus. He stumbled to a nearby railing that was on the side of some stairs that led up to the front porch of the house, and I will never forget the sounds he was making as he leaned over the railing with a purple face, so I ran over and wrapped my arms around him from behind but luckily the food dislodged before I could even start an aggressive Heimlich on him. I was definitely not sober and my friends were so shit-faced, they didn't even know it happened, which is the scariest part of all. I'm just happy it ended the way it did, but damn, it was a close one for sure.

We did rounds with the attending at Cook County when I was a second year. Dude comes in sht-faced and has a uneaten hot dog lodged below the trachea and upper esophageal sphincter. He can breathe but obv uncomfortable. I didn't witness the removal but saw the hot dog later. It was whole. It was lightly chewed and whole.

Quick thinking on your part!

 

[destriero]

Yeah, it's sobering how life can suddenly hang in the balance.

On a dime. I had a mouthful of green tea as well. Sprayed everywhere. Finn was playing Tarkov and had located some super special thing on the map. Haha he had cleared the lobby of all but two guys so he was happy that he wasn't looted while AFK.

"I'm in the middle of a match" to "stop fcking around!"

 

[destriero]

A few years ago just before covid officially came along I had this nasty cough (maybe I was patient zero?!). I was coughing all night and went to bed.

When I woke up, I stepped out of bed, looked out the window, and then a few seconds later I realised something.....I wasn't breathing! I rubbed my mouth with my hand to instinctively remove anything blocking my ability to breath whilst my brain tried to work out what the hell was going on lol

It was like the mechanism to breath wasn't working. For a second I thought i'd had some sort of brain damage and had forgotten how to breath! haha

Before I knew it, i'd now gone about 20 seconds without breathing and full panic was setting in. I was punching my chest and had now managed to walk downstairs to get the attention of my GF.

She's flapping away helpless. At this point about 1 minute had passed and I was certain that was it for me. I remember thinking 'Jesus. What a way to go! I'll never even know what the hell happened! Did I swallow a golf ball in my sleep? Gonna be an embarassing funeral if something like that has happened!'

Absolute peak panic at this point as my body has now gona about 70 seconds without breathing and i'm fighting a ghost and flapping around trying to somehow breath! Just as i'm close to collapsing, a pinholes worth of air suddenly presents itself to me and i'm able to breath in the tiniest bit of air, making a weird sound as it's as if i'm trrying to suck in a gallon of air through a tiny hole. Despite the tiny amount of air, it's a huge relief. Seconds later i'm able to get a tiny bit more air in. Eventually i'm able to breath again.

I go straight to the hospital and they run tests and stuff and stick tubes in my nose to see my vocal chords (ouch! that was no day at the beach!). They find nothing and don't know what it was

From doing my own research, i'm of the opinion that it was a 'laryngospasm'! (where your vocal chords all literally close up, usually for about 50 seconds) - Likely brought on my the violent coughing (as a result of a virus. Maybe even covid?!).

I hope nobody ever has to experience that. It was horrid.

Fck, this is a horror story!