tinkerbell025
Silly Me!
Nov 10, 2009
I often reflect back on the days gone by and notice where I have went and what I have become. I know others most likely do this too, but for me it is always like a WOW moment.
I have learned one valuable thing in the past couple of weeks. One I think needs to be shared. Maybe that way others will not make the same mistakes.
A couple weeks ago while at work in class, I had a desire to chew on a piece of gum. Knowing the rule is no gum, I only put in a small (half) stick of gum and basically would let it sit in my mouth without chewing it all the time. Don't get me wrong I have been chewing gum throughout this past year, with no issues!
This was my unlucky day! The gum slid down my throat and I was in a place I could not just run out of class and hack it up, I had to deal with life as the card was dealt. I really was not worried about the gum being swallowed, it was only a small piece, right?
So very wrong on most levels! At the time everything was fine. Went to eat lunch could only eat a small bit of my half cup of food. No big deal, thought it was a grouchy pouch day. After lunch I got that oh so full feeling and tummy kind of cramped. I walked it off in the hallways and after 45 minutes I was feeling ok.That eve during dinner, the same thing happens, the cramps returned. I then had a bell of brightness come on in my little head. ITS THE GUM! it is stuck!! Mind you this only took like 6 hrs to figure out, shakes head in amazement at how slow I can be sometimes. I ate some papaya tablets and nothing helped. I finally gave up and went to bed at like 6pm,for the night. Telling myself if I felt this bad in the morning I was not going in!
By morning the gum had finally made it to another junction in the body and I felt ok, a bit sore from the cramping but, good to go!
The moral of this story?
I will never eat just half a piece of gum again! Always full pieces that will not slither away from me
That's my story and I am sticking to it!
Kelly/tink
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Fargo, ND
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23.6
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08/12/2008
Surgery Date
Jun 15, 2008
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