Jeez how much more morbid can chrome be in one day lol! Having just read Dawna's blog about her brother (sorry bros) I remember a time I almost croaked on a fish bone. Must've been around 20 at the time eating in some shitty little restaurant. My friend was agitating to leave so I woofed down the Tilapia fish I was eating. As I spooned the last of my rice the world turned very funny. I could feel the fish bone in my throat and tried to swallow hard but nothing was happening. I grabbed a drink of water and tried to drink it down but, very involuntarily, the rice and water went flying from my mouth as I fell down and started to choke violently. The weirdest thing was the intense feeling of blacking out as dark spots swam in my vision. Strangely this felt very comfortable - I know I morbidly mused on the nature of death for a long time afterwards. Then I felt someone dragged me off the floor, bend me over (no homo) and give me repeated bloody punches in the middle of my back. My mouth opened and the stupid fish bone came flying. Everything instantly came back to normal, like very instant. I turned to see my saviour and it was the guy sitting a few tables away, my bloody friend having not known what to do. I bent down and picked the fish bone, a tiny bloody little thing that almost put me 6 feet under. The cheek of it.
And thus began my love hate affair with fish
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I hope you pounded the thing into dust...seriously though it's scary how such small things can kill us- small bones, a grape even down o viruses and bacteria. Scary stuff our own mortality.
My mother-in-law and I also had similar experiences but very different in a way. I came close to drowning when a child but felt nothing but panic and fear, i didn't reach the dumb peacefulness though a few more seconds and i may have. She on the other hand was under for longer and she described it as being exactly as you did. Comfortable, peaceful, she was not bothered by anything at that point and the fact she was suffocating and would die didn't even bother her. She was rescued and given CPR but she never forgot that odd feeling.
I think CPR and the heimlich are something everone should know and I'm glad someone was there to dislodge your little intruder!
thx for your comment and glad you had a positive outcome too. that comfortable feeling was very disconcerting and my friend thought I had gone fish-induced mad when I tried to explain it to him. Is this what people feel when they pass away in their sleep or when people talk of outer-body experiences?
Yes learning the heimlich maneuver is a must. I wonder if this is taught to restaurant staff and in schools?
Hey Chrome..'Fishbone boogie':-)
I've been making light of the fishbone affair, but that sobered me up.. what a scary experience for you..
You mate must have been freaked out also.. just not knowing what to do..
colour me morbid but i suspect death can be like that.. that moment when all pain..sorrow lifts, as your soul elevates...transcends
sick people on the verge of death can often look very calm.. smooth and relaxed.. well..(as if they're about to make a full recovery) then blam.. they're gone.
Glad you lived to tell the ... 'tail'
thx Dawna and I hope your brother doesn't go off fish like I did. and drop more fish puns on him, lord knows I was ribbed to death about my experience and the laughter helped me cope with it all.
its funny how we talk a lot about life and very little about the process of death. Not meaning in a morbid fashion, but perhaps in some way that could help people prepare for a loss or cope with the passing of loved ones. I remember the intense confusion I felt when I observed my deceased granddad at his wake and wish I could have talked to someone before hand or afterwards. up to that point I'd dismissed any talk on dying, was probably too young to have any real views on it.
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