Got all Choked Up at Work Today...
And not metaphorically, either. During a lunch meeting, I choked on a large piece of potato from today's lunch.
One of my bosses said to me as I was trying to swallow unsuccessfully, and trying to inhale unsuccessfully, "So, Judi, you don't like that idea?" Being rather preoccupied with my own crisis, I had no idea what he was talking about.
I lifted my hand to my throat, and the science teacher said, jokingly, "What? Are you choking or something there, Judi?" I nodded, and everyone at the table froze.
Someone else asked whether I could talk or breathe, and I shook my head no. I heard someone ask if anyone knew the Heimlich maneuver, and I thought that was a grand idea, and stood up, went behind my chair, and leaned on the back of it with my stomach. This worked, and I coughed up the potato.
I was so embarrassed, my face was red. (It had been pale and bluish before.)
Later in the day, my boss joked to me that he ought to have known something was wrong, because I wasn't talking...he'd thought at first from the expression on my face that I'd hated his idea. Whatever it was, because we sure got off-topic due to my drama!
But, I am all okay now. The only aftermath is that I still feel like something is still stuck in that part of my throat, and that if I could just swallow right, that feeling would go away.
One of my bosses said to me as I was trying to swallow unsuccessfully, and trying to inhale unsuccessfully, "So, Judi, you don't like that idea?" Being rather preoccupied with my own crisis, I had no idea what he was talking about.
I lifted my hand to my throat, and the science teacher said, jokingly, "What? Are you choking or something there, Judi?" I nodded, and everyone at the table froze.
Someone else asked whether I could talk or breathe, and I shook my head no. I heard someone ask if anyone knew the Heimlich maneuver, and I thought that was a grand idea, and stood up, went behind my chair, and leaned on the back of it with my stomach. This worked, and I coughed up the potato.
I was so embarrassed, my face was red. (It had been pale and bluish before.)
Later in the day, my boss joked to me that he ought to have known something was wrong, because I wasn't talking...he'd thought at first from the expression on my face that I'd hated his idea. Whatever it was, because we sure got off-topic due to my drama!
But, I am all okay now. The only aftermath is that I still feel like something is still stuck in that part of my throat, and that if I could just swallow right, that feeling would go away.