It’s a really terrifying sensation – nearly went out myself too hurriedly munching schteak one time. The bleedin’ panic when you realise you can’t breathe. And of course, everybody else panics too. Reminder to just get up and do the Heimlich. Just do it if you can. And if you can’t and it’s not looking good, then do it anyway. Preferably get trained up. I
Rest his soul.
Peter Kay reaction incoming.
RIP.
Nearly lost my dad like this a couple months ago. First time I’ve seen him cry once he got back from the hospital. Horrifying experience but at least he could still slightly breathe throughout.
Jesus that’s awful.
My brother in law almost choked to death a few years ago while we were out for a meal. Scary how quickly it can happen, everything was normal then a split second later he was gasping for air, for a couple of seconds the rest of us were laughing but quickly realised it was serious. Took about 30 seconds to get it dislodged and he recovered but frightening all the same. RIP.
Death by garlic bread, fuck, chew your food folks
This nearly happened to me, albeit with the end of a baguette.
I was in school and during lunch I forgot to grab the football I brought. I’m munching on my baguette when I take the last bite and I accidently swallow it pretty much whole.
Obviously I couldn’t breathe, but it got so bad that I was on my hands and knees with my ears ringing.
I was lucky that a classmate came in as well for something else and started doing the heimlich maneuver on me. He had to basically hold me up to do it too, I couldn’t stand up anymore. I would have been dead had he not found me.
Teacher passing through the hallway just looks in and sees me on my knees, my classmate rubbing my back afterwards and catches me just as I start to vomit.
I was grand, but the lack of oxygen made me nauseous. They get it cleaned up and my classmate got student of the week for his troubles.
Very unpleasant way to go I’d imagine, i was lucky that I was saved.
He was a musical legend. What an awful way to go!
Feel bad for the family, love Clannad.
Remember to chew your food thoroughly lads, and no stuffing your face after too many pints…
Happened to me with a sausage as a kid and my mum just stared at me in horror doing nothing, 5 year old me reached my hand down my throat and pulled it out myself.
Please everyone learn the heilmlich manoeuvre and take your time eating
Made me wonder what would happen if you were choking and there was nobody around to try the Heimlich manoeuvre. Turns out you can do it to yourself:
I feel he would have been better served with this information being reserved for his family members.
PSA:
If you have the feeling you cannot breathe suddenly because something lodged in your throat, try to cough or speak.
If that doesn’t work… CAUSE A SCENE. Like your life depends on it, because most likely it literally does. Since you will not be able to yell, indeed hitting the table to get attention is a good move. Then look at people and do the hands to throat sign of ‘I am choking’.
Do NOT follow some weird thinking of going to the bathroom to ‘cough it out’.
Alone in the bathroom you choking to death might not interrupt someone else’s lunch/dinner, but it pretty much does Interrupt your lifeline.
If you are alone, “To give yourself abdominal thrusts, also called the Heimlich maneuver, place a fist slightly above your navel. Grasp your fist with the other hand and bend over a hard surface. Shove your fist inward and upward.”
Or throw yourself (or more that area of yourself) on a hard chair back or something. Again as if your life depends on it. (Almost) everything can be repaired afterwards, and if you’re really choking, the things that might not be able to be repaired within you 🤷♀️ the alternative would be the same.
(Obvs this was not posted as some kind of gotcha 🤦♀️)
I recently did a first aid course. One of the things that was in it was unsurprisingly the Heimlich, but what people may not know is that it’s possible to self-administer it – it was demonstrated using the back of a chair for me.
Discovered Clannad within the last year, I quite enjoy them from time to time, RIP…
Shotgun a can of fizzy pop if you can to make yourself retch it back up.
This happened me a few months ago and it was honestly terrifying. I was home with my two small kids, and as any parent knows stuffing your face while you have a second isn’t exactly unusual.
So there I was trying to figure out how to make this less traumatic for me three year old while also trying to self heimlich, I was just about to run out the front door to the neighbours when the bit of food dislodged.
I laughed and cried at the absurdity of it, it happened so quick and I felt so stupid.
Terribly sad news.
On another note, that the second headline in two days that the Irish times have completely dogged. Absolutely no reason to mention that he choked on garlic bread. Not even a reason to mention asphyxiation in the headline. Think of the lads family. Fuck the Irish times.
Awful. Great musician. RIP
Choked on a jawbreaker (remember those feckin things?!) when I was like 6 or 7. Neighbour saved my life. My ma didn’t know what to do so brought me next door. Remember everything going dark and then woosh. I was back.
So sad. A composer/musician that made me feel proud to be irish.
I fucking love garlic bread
In this thread: Chocking stories and no talk about Clannad. Wonderful music RIP
Terrible news.had a couple of scares myself choking.you can actually do a self heimlich maneuver.it’s good to know.
Was living in Belfast and stopped for fish and chips on the way home. They had a jar of pickled eggs on the counter so I got one for the drive home.
Popped the whole egg in my mouth, bit it in half and was instantly shocked by the intensity of the vinegar. Eggs must have been in the jar for a year.
I involuntarily gasped and inhaled half the egg. Stuck in my windpipe and the vinegar was like acid burning. Had to repeatedly slam my back into the car seat to dislodge it. Lost my voice for about 3 days. Imagine dying from a pickled egg though; the absolute shame and shiteness of it.
I nearly choked to death eating a cooked sausage in the van one morning. I realised I was in big trouble very quickly but there was no traffic just someone out walking I looked for a pen and paper and my phone but couldn’t see it anything to write a message so I got out and hurried toward them all the while choking. they walked past me looking at me funny as I was trying to get their attention that I couldn’t breath I was absolutely fucked and lucky as hell that I managed to swallow it down before I passed out on the road.
I was out with my mates one night, we stopped off in some BBQ place for a quick bite in Smithfield, steak sambos. I take a bite and pull out more steak than intended, I’m starving though so I try to tackle it….. slowly begin to realise it’s stuck, I’m half embarrassed so I slowly try to swallow but it’s stuck…..bit of air obviously there but im in trouble. No one is noticing though, I know I shouldn’t move or run to the toilet but feel like Time is moving slowly, eventually it passes down my throat, I take a big deep breath and no one has noticed.
It was so fucking scary. I can see how you may be fucked before you know it cause you’re too embarrassed to say anything.
R.I.P. One of the greats in the trad scene and Irish music in general. Will be fondly remembered by many.
An ice cube, I was seven. Many things were said after the fact about how other methods of dislodging it might have worked. However, my mother thumped the everloving shite out of my back to get it pop out. I just remember motioning desperately while things went whooshy in my ears. The whole thing maybe lasted maybe a minute but it felt way longer. I thought it would be like on tv where you could actually make choking sounds, but nothing.
My aunt was saying after the fact that we could’ve warmed milk to melt the ice cube. There was no explaining to her it wouldn’t have worked, on top of the fact it took an age to get full heat on the cooker elements.
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RIP. This is how I wanna go out
Really horrifying. Poor guy. RIP
RIP. That’s awful.
It’s a really terrifying sensation – nearly went out myself too hurriedly munching schteak one time. The bleedin’ panic when you realise you can’t breathe. And of course, everybody else panics too. Reminder to just get up and do the Heimlich. Just do it if you can. And if you can’t and it’s not looking good, then do it anyway. Preferably get trained up. I
Rest his soul.
Peter Kay reaction incoming.
RIP.
Nearly lost my dad like this a couple months ago. First time I’ve seen him cry once he got back from the hospital. Horrifying experience but at least he could still slightly breathe throughout.
Jesus that’s awful.
My brother in law almost choked to death a few years ago while we were out for a meal. Scary how quickly it can happen, everything was normal then a split second later he was gasping for air, for a couple of seconds the rest of us were laughing but quickly realised it was serious. Took about 30 seconds to get it dislodged and he recovered but frightening all the same. RIP.
Death by garlic bread, fuck, chew your food folks
This nearly happened to me, albeit with the end of a baguette.
I was in school and during lunch I forgot to grab the football I brought. I’m munching on my baguette when I take the last bite and I accidently swallow it pretty much whole.
Obviously I couldn’t breathe, but it got so bad that I was on my hands and knees with my ears ringing.
I was lucky that a classmate came in as well for something else and started doing the heimlich maneuver on me. He had to basically hold me up to do it too, I couldn’t stand up anymore. I would have been dead had he not found me.
Teacher passing through the hallway just looks in and sees me on my knees, my classmate rubbing my back afterwards and catches me just as I start to vomit.
I was grand, but the lack of oxygen made me nauseous. They get it cleaned up and my classmate got student of the week for his troubles.
Very unpleasant way to go I’d imagine, i was lucky that I was saved.
He was a musical legend. What an awful way to go!
Feel bad for the family, love Clannad.
Remember to chew your food thoroughly lads, and no stuffing your face after too many pints…
Happened to me with a sausage as a kid and my mum just stared at me in horror doing nothing, 5 year old me reached my hand down my throat and pulled it out myself.
Please everyone learn the heilmlich manoeuvre and take your time eating
Made me wonder what would happen if you were choking and there was nobody around to try the Heimlich manoeuvre. Turns out you can do it to yourself:
https://youtu.be/EunauWI4lFQ?si=QCWKjMETJMqBJh5F
I feel he would have been better served with this information being reserved for his family members.
PSA:
If you have the feeling you cannot breathe suddenly because something lodged in your throat, try to cough or speak.
If that doesn’t work… CAUSE A SCENE. Like your life depends on it, because most likely it literally does. Since you will not be able to yell, indeed hitting the table to get attention is a good move. Then look at people and do the hands to throat sign of ‘I am choking’.
Do NOT follow some weird thinking of going to the bathroom to ‘cough it out’.
Alone in the bathroom you choking to death might not interrupt someone else’s lunch/dinner, but it pretty much does Interrupt your lifeline.
If you are alone, “To give yourself abdominal thrusts, also called the Heimlich maneuver, place a fist slightly above your navel. Grasp your fist with the other hand and bend over a hard surface. Shove your fist inward and upward.”
Or throw yourself (or more that area of yourself) on a hard chair back or something. Again as if your life depends on it. (Almost) everything can be repaired afterwards, and if you’re really choking, the things that might not be able to be repaired within you 🤷♀️ the alternative would be the same.
(Obvs this was not posted as some kind of gotcha 🤦♀️)
I recently did a first aid course. One of the things that was in it was unsurprisingly the Heimlich, but what people may not know is that it’s possible to self-administer it – it was demonstrated using the back of a chair for me.
Discovered Clannad within the last year, I quite enjoy them from time to time, RIP…
Shotgun a can of fizzy pop if you can to make yourself retch it back up.
This happened me a few months ago and it was honestly terrifying. I was home with my two small kids, and as any parent knows stuffing your face while you have a second isn’t exactly unusual.
So there I was trying to figure out how to make this less traumatic for me three year old while also trying to self heimlich, I was just about to run out the front door to the neighbours when the bit of food dislodged.
I laughed and cried at the absurdity of it, it happened so quick and I felt so stupid.
Terribly sad news.
On another note, that the second headline in two days that the Irish times have completely dogged. Absolutely no reason to mention that he choked on garlic bread. Not even a reason to mention asphyxiation in the headline. Think of the lads family. Fuck the Irish times.
Awful. Great musician. RIP
Choked on a jawbreaker (remember those feckin things?!) when I was like 6 or 7. Neighbour saved my life. My ma didn’t know what to do so brought me next door. Remember everything going dark and then woosh. I was back.
So sad. A composer/musician that made me feel proud to be irish.
I fucking love garlic bread
In this thread: Chocking stories and no talk about Clannad. Wonderful music RIP
Terrible news.had a couple of scares myself choking.you can actually do a self heimlich maneuver.it’s good to know.
https://preview.redd.it/mu6269vqzrlc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b0c9c168e56e8e12df47723a149270658a1d62b
Was living in Belfast and stopped for fish and chips on the way home. They had a jar of pickled eggs on the counter so I got one for the drive home.
Popped the whole egg in my mouth, bit it in half and was instantly shocked by the intensity of the vinegar. Eggs must have been in the jar for a year.
I involuntarily gasped and inhaled half the egg. Stuck in my windpipe and the vinegar was like acid burning. Had to repeatedly slam my back into the car seat to dislodge it. Lost my voice for about 3 days. Imagine dying from a pickled egg though; the absolute shame and shiteness of it.
I nearly choked to death eating a cooked sausage in the van one morning. I realised I was in big trouble very quickly but there was no traffic just someone out walking I looked for a pen and paper and my phone but couldn’t see it anything to write a message so I got out and hurried toward them all the while choking. they walked past me looking at me funny as I was trying to get their attention that I couldn’t breath I was absolutely fucked and lucky as hell that I managed to swallow it down before I passed out on the road.
I was out with my mates one night, we stopped off in some BBQ place for a quick bite in Smithfield, steak sambos. I take a bite and pull out more steak than intended, I’m starving though so I try to tackle it….. slowly begin to realise it’s stuck, I’m half embarrassed so I slowly try to swallow but it’s stuck…..bit of air obviously there but im in trouble. No one is noticing though, I know I shouldn’t move or run to the toilet but feel like Time is moving slowly, eventually it passes down my throat, I take a big deep breath and no one has noticed.
It was so fucking scary. I can see how you may be fucked before you know it cause you’re too embarrassed to say anything.
R.I.P. One of the greats in the trad scene and Irish music in general. Will be fondly remembered by many.
An ice cube, I was seven. Many things were said after the fact about how other methods of dislodging it might have worked. However, my mother thumped the everloving shite out of my back to get it pop out. I just remember motioning desperately while things went whooshy in my ears. The whole thing maybe lasted maybe a minute but it felt way longer. I thought it would be like on tv where you could actually make choking sounds, but nothing.
My aunt was saying after the fact that we could’ve warmed milk to melt the ice cube. There was no explaining to her it wouldn’t have worked, on top of the fact it took an age to get full heat on the cooker elements.