• @[email protected]
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    252 years ago

    Getting a crouton stuck in my windpipe. Your body can and will try to take over when life is on the line. Fortunately, I could still breathe a little and I had to wait for saliva to dissolve it. A scary 15 mins or so of small breathes.

    • @rockhstrongo
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      122 years ago

      When I was a small child, I put a piece of Cheerios cereal in each nostril, to “see if I could breath through the tiny holes”. They got stuck, I panicked, then fell asleep. When I woke up, they were gone. I always assumed they dissolved.

    • arc
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      32 years ago

      Your body can and will try to take over when life is on the line

      What do you mean by that? Were you doing involuntary actions?

      • @[email protected]
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        122 years ago

        Oh yeah, lungs were giving it their all to clear and they didn’t care if they did a little damage to succeed. Losing some control over your body is a weird sensation. It’s like someone snatching your game controller away, beating a boss, and then tossing it back into your hands.

        • arc
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          22 years ago

          Like a long reflex action? Like when you touch a hot stove, you’ll automatically jerk out of the way