Comment on YSK What to do if someone’s choking: Evidence says begin with back blows
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 20 hours agoWe’re such weird creatures. That woman was choking to death and she was too shy to ask for help and too embarrassed after to say much of anything.
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
Might have been shock on her part. I choked in a restaurant before on a peppermint and my mom saved me with abdominal thrusts but I was really shaken up afterwards from how scary it got and couldn’t really react much for a while afterwards
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Same for the person I performed the heimlich on, I found it odd at the time and her daughter thanked me profusely, it was surreal. I also remember being terrified on hurting her as well as potentially being sued if I had, she was a bigger lady and really short so I had her like fully off the ground squeezing the absolute fuck out of her
What a world where I have to have that thought while trying to help
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
Yeah it’s quite the experience, you can’t breathe and that’s freaking you out and then you’re just airborne all the sudden and something flies out of you and then you suddenly aren’t dying anymore. It’s a trip but damn I’m glad my mom was able to react to it cos the choking part was horrifying. I’m sure the person you saved feels the same way that you were there to react to it, even if in the moment they seemed a bit dissociated.
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Yeah I have no doubt about it, it’s a pretty unmistakable thing to catch, surprise then terror