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Well that was ****ing scary!
Comping on my bacon and egg roll, managed to get a chunk of bacon stuck in my throat.
Stagger wheezing and choking into the kitchen, looking for Mrs Gob, not there, into the back garden, it's getting worse, she's not there either, I try banging my back against a wall and try to pull it out with my fingers. My head started to spin and I thought I'm about to pass out and then die. The dog was following me about looking a bit concerned.
Not sure how but managed to dislodge it, a 1 inch square piece of streaky bacon.
It was absolutely terrifying. I reckon another minute and I would been done for.
That was an hour ago and my legs and arms are aching.
Did the dog eat it after you freed it?
Were you wearing a helmet?
😂
Problem there was use of streaky bacon. What sort of pervert has streaky in a roll?
Anyway, this is a nice story and will will make you feel all fuzzy and distract you from nearly dying to death
Dr Henry Heimlich uses Heimlich manoeuvre to save a life at 96
It was absolutely terrifying. I reckon another minute and I would been done for.
A friend is a paramedic, he was called out to a 5 year old choking on an apple the other week. 5 of them couldn't save him, the piece had been sucked right down into the lungs.
The dog was following me about looking a bit concerned.
“I’m about a minute away from not getting that bit of bacon… whoof…”
OP
Was it a very big bit of Bacon or do you have a tiny throat?
Oh,and chew your food properly you silly sausage. 😉
Did the dog eat it after you freed it?
He did but not immediately.
He knew something was wrong and followed me back in the house, when he saw I was OK, then he went back for the bacon.
A friend is a paramedic, he was called out to a 5 year old choking on an apple the other week. 5 of them couldn’t save him, the piece had been sucked right down into the lungs.
That is absolutely tragic.
Scary shit. Glad you're OK.
I have nearly done the same with bacon once, very scary.
Scary stuff - been there and helped a friend free food that he was choking on in a pub. Abdominal thrusts FTW.
<dad mode>Chew your **** food!</dad mode>
Apparently you can Heimlich yourself on e.g. the back of a chair, but I can't say I've done it, seen it done or know anyone who can testify to it working... but it's probably worth trying in extremis...
Horrible feeling isn't it!
I did it once when a bit of chicken went down the wrong way and it wouldn't budge no matter what I did. I was in the then work van at the time, a cash delivery van, so hit the Panic button and just about managed to tell the control room what was happening before I started to be unable to talk and was losing vision. To this day I don't know how I got out of the van (secure airlock) but I do remember collapsing on the floor as the ambulance arrived. According to the notes I passed out as they got to me then they did 5 sets of Heimlich manoeuvres and back slaps, definitely explained the prodigious bruises I had all over me! They were just about to go for a tracheostomy when one of them essentially picked me up and threw me into the back of the ambulance (this bit wasn't in the notes, I was told it by a bystander the next time I went to that customer that gave me the chicken dinner!) dislodging it but they still had to get me breathing again. They reckoned I was out for at least 2 minutes if not more. Took nearly a week to get any real energy back and I've been left with permanent changes to my brain, partly due to the oxygen starvation but mainly due to it being a second brain trauma 6 months after a heavy concussion that knocked me out for 40 minutes or so. It means I can no longer drink alcohol without getting severe migraines for a few days (a tiny amount has the same effect as a few pints, takes about 3 hours for the effects to show) that leaves me bed-bound. I also have memory gaps between 1998 and 2005 which led to an amusing evening where I went to a college reunion, remembered everyone but had no recollection of actually dating one of the ladies for a few weeks! Cue them showing me photos after I'd explained everything, including a weekend at a festival I cannot recall either. I'm also missing the end of another relationship I had so have no idea why it ended but do remember that it was messy for a while afterwards. My friends I still see from that time period have got used to my memory gaps now so when things come up in conversations that I don't recall they just assure me I was definitely there, although I do sometimes think they're taking the piss just because they can.
Apart from that no other lasting effects thankfully!
A friend is a paramedic, he was called out to a 5 year old choking on an apple the other week. 5 of them couldn’t save him, the piece had been sucked right down into the lungs.
Bad enough not being able to save someone but a 5 year old has got to be really tough.
A friend is a paramedic, he was called out to a 5 year old choking on an apple the other week. 5 of them couldn’t save him, the piece had been sucked right down into the lungs.
That's awful.
On a similar, thankfully less tragic note, my issue was on a flight next to a 10 year old who started choking on a grape he'd "eaten" an hour before. Somehow it had come back up, got lodged and he was in a bad way. Thankfully the missus got the attention of a medic who freed the offending item.
Abdominal thrusts FTW
Whilst chewing you mean?
reluctantjumper, remember that time in about 2003 when you were a bit hard up and I loaned you £1,000? Nope, I didn't think so. Anyway, PayPal gift will be fine mate.
That's actually better than the 'I fell off my bike and didn't bang my head' story.
Only time I've seen someone properly choking was at Costa at Woolley Edge services. Guy was there with his wife and two teenage children, bit of noise, bit of screaming, kids thumping him on the back made me realise what it was and that I was about to have to use my first aid at work training....
By the time I'd stood up and started to go towards him the world's calmest barista had come round the counter, heimliched him twice to dislodge whatever it was, called for a colleague to clean it up off the floor and gone back to frothing the milk. Cool as ****.
The family were incredibly grateful when they'd all calmed down and I think the guy got the biggest tip a Costa barista has ever received
That’s actually better than the ‘I fell off my bike and didn’t bang my head’ story.
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This is ruining bacon for me...
Bacon and egg butty? Yeah whatever OP - more like sex game gone wrong....
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Rinding
Bad enough not being able to save someone but a 5 year old has got to be really tough.
Yep, no idea how he manages to do the job.
reluctantjumper, remember that time in about 2003 when you were a bit hard up and I loaned you £1,000? Nope, I didn’t think so. Anyway, PayPal gift will be fine mate.
Knowing what I was like with money back in 2003 it could be true!
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Guy falls off bike into a rock filled stream while not wearing a helmet. Didn't hit his head or drown. Did find it quite scary though.
Yeah, your story is much better.
https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/close-call-only-luck-saved-me/
I assumed this thread was a pisstake of that thread.
I did it once when a bit of chicken went down the wrong way and it wouldn’t budge no matter what I did. I was in the then work van at the time, a cash delivery van, so hit the Panic button and just about managed to tell the control room what was happening before I started to be unable to talk and was losing vision. To this day I don’t know how I got out of the van (secure airlock) but I do remember collapsing on the floor as the ambulance arrived. According to the notes I passed out as they got to me then they did 5 sets of Heimlich manoeuvres and back slaps, definitely explained the prodigious bruises I had all over me! They were just about to go for a tracheostomy when one of them essentially picked me up and threw me into the back of the ambulance (this bit wasn’t in the notes, I was told it by a bystander the next time I went to that customer that gave me the chicken dinner!) dislodging it but they still had to get me breathing again. They reckoned I was out for at least 2 minutes if not more. Took nearly a week to get any real energy back and I’ve been left with permanent changes to my brain, partly due to the oxygen starvation but mainly due to it being a second brain trauma 6 months after a heavy concussion that knocked me out for 40 minutes or so. It means I can no longer drink alcohol without getting severe migraines for a few days (a tiny amount has the same effect as a few pints, takes about 3 hours for the effects to show) that leaves me bed-bound. I also have memory gaps between 1998 and 2005 which led to an amusing evening where I went to a college reunion, remembered everyone but had no recollection of actually dating one of the ladies for a few weeks! Cue them showing me photos after I’d explained everything, including a weekend at a festival I cannot recall either. I’m also missing the end of another relationship I had so have no idea why it ended but do remember that it was messy for a while afterwards. My friends I still see from that time period have got used to my memory gaps now so when things come up in conversations that I don’t recall they just assure me I was definitely there, although I do sometimes think they’re taking the piss just because they can.
<sherlock holmes> I deduce you were taught about paragraphs sometime between 1998 and 2005 </sherlock holmes>
Nothing quite like that feeling of not being able to breath and thinking that this is the end.
One of the most stupid things I ever did was to put a salbutamol inhaler in my mouth, press and breath in, then realise I'd left the cap on and breathed that down.
Cue a period of time alternating between trying to self Heimlich and shove my hand down my throat to pull the cap out.
Woke up on the ground some time later with the cap in my mouth, can only assume as I passed out the muscles relaxed and hitting the ground jolted enough air out of my lungs to pop it out. ****ing lucky I fell forwards really.
Glad to hear you're okay OP!
It is truly horrible, basically the whole reason I became a first aider was an incident when I heard a toddler choking in a cafe, at the time my own daughter was a wee tot. The horrible chilling noise and panic made me realise I wouldn't have much of a clue.
Even now, 12 or 13 years later, I'd rather someone had a bloody heart attack in front of me than a choker, it's bloody horrible.
I assumed this thread was a pisstake of that thread.
Why?
I was actually in a position where with a little less luck, I could of died.
The feeling of choking and being able to breathe is truly terrifying one.
<sherlock holmes> I deduce you were taught about paragraphs sometime between 1998 and 2005 </sherlock holmes>
😊Pre-'98 but I wrote it on my phone, don't like walls of text!
Why?
I actually thought this as well when I saw the title. Then I read your description and realised you were describing a terrifying situation that you have just experienced so I hope you're alright.
However, it is quite funny that yesterday we had someone describing their near miss while doing something that could be classed as risky (kind of) that resulted in no injury (and if I'm entirely honest it doesn't sound like that much of a near miss either) and how it was causing him to re-evaluate his riding.
Today you were having a bite to eat and came within minutes of actually dying.
It just goes to show how far off our evaluation of risk can actually be.
You lot stop trying to kill yourself before weekend. Sheesh.
Edit, got my threads mixed up. Deleted
I came back from a bike ride a couple of years ago to find 2 ambulances at the end of my drive. I thought there must have been an accident at the junction at the end of the road until my neighbour come out and said it was my son...he had choked on a blueberry that he had found. My wife had panicked when she couldn't dislodge it and run to next door who is a nurse and she luckily managed to free it. My son who was just over a year old at the time, was foaming at the mouth and going blue. Still shits me up when I think about it. I can't imagine what it must have been like for my wife. We are forever grateful to the lady next door though, she saved his life for sure.
He's fine now, doesn't remember it and still loves blueberries.
Glad you're ok OP!
I am proper Northern i won't choke on a full stottie (some folk may need to look up stottie)
We've started our 7 month old on soft biscuit type finger food and she started choking on them the first few times. Happily munching on them one second when I turned my back she started choking. Mad panicking from me trying to get her out of her chair while slapping her back. Was only a few seconds and she coughed it up but frightened the life out of me. Wife's much calmer and flicks it out with her finger when it happened again. She's fine eating them now, but I have to sit staring at her all the time, ready to pounce.😀 Makes me a nervous wreck.
It's a horrible thing to experience as an observer, can't even begin to imagine how it is to actually properly choke, even a minor choke that gets dislodged easily is scary.
My daughter choked on a wine gum when she was around 18months old. My fault entirely. Fortunately I managed to Heimlich it out of her (which I was lucky with having never trained in first aid ever), single most terrifying event of my life. I held her and weeped for a good half hour afterwards.
Saw a bloke choking in the local spoons a couple years ago, many panicking around and lots of hits on the back didn't help. A regular that we recognise managed to Heimlich him and save him. We now call him lord Heimlich, he does not know this.
All of which kind of raises the question - how many of us have had first aid training and would know what to do?
Stick to sausage its easier to swallow .
I’ve treated some pretty nasty first aid incidents (first responder for crashes on the A9 for example), my worst until recently was a lady having a stroke in front of her daughter and grandkids in the middle of a busy restaurant.
However, that pales into insignificance to watching my girlfriends daughter choking on her food. Scary for everyone and thankfully I just went into autopilot and cleared the blockage.
Basic first aid is a very easy course and it can be the difference between life and death. If you can do one then please do.
Bacon has given us so much it’s bound to want to want to take a life every so often.
That is the way it must be.
(I want some bacon now and it 1am for chuffs sake).
Bacon has given us so much it’s bound to want to want to take a life every so often.
Bacon is always taken. Colorectal cancer, heart disease or choking is not always given.
The WHO findings are likely getting attention because of their specificity. They assert that eating 50 grams of processed meat – think a little less than two pieces of bacon – daily can increase the risk of cancer by 18 percent. “That sounds like a big number,” says Gross. “However, you have to remember that would only be among those who consume the highest amount of processed meat. Not your average bacon eater.
https://healthcare.utah.edu/healthfeed/postings/2015/10/102615_death.bacon.php
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Two pieces a day is considered the ‘highest amount’? Yoiks.
OP, glad you saw another day - sounds awful.
Had a similar experience with my school tie in a stupid school fight/bullying incident. Some twonk thought it a good idea to swing me around by my tie, so of course it cinched right up into my throat. The knot was tightened to the size of a large pea and I couldn’t get fingers between the tie and my windpipe. Luckily a friend turned up with a penknife on him and cut it just as I was blacking out. His fast-acting saved my life. I remember everything spinning and the sound of some girls screaming, and one kid shouting ‘look at his face!’ *shudder*
It just goes to show how far off our evaluation of risk can actually be.
Livings a risky experience 🙂
No one gets out of here alive....
Livings a risky experience
It's worse than that; it's a terminal sexually transmitted disease!
At uni, for some reason my girlfriend at the time reckoned there was no way I could swallow a Corn Pop (old skool cereal) whole.
I can't quite remember the circumstances that lead us to be discussing this 😂
Anyway, the first one was easy, so she said something like "go on then, do it again" so I did.
The problem was the first one had completely dried my throat up, so the second one went down a way g then just stopped.
My girlfriend thought I was messing around so didn't help until I really started to panic.
Luckily a few hard back slaps led to it being flung out across the room. I think I was lucky it had started to dissolve.
I don't do that kind of thing anymore.