What I'm Reading This Week #27
Happy Friday everyone! I hope you've got the day off to enjoy. I would really appreciate the weather dialing it back from Satan's taint to dryish heat please. I'm not even asking for much. Like 83 degrees would make me happy at this point but there's no end in sight to the 90's. The Mr and I have both been plagued with migraines this week. He had a two day event and I had an ocular migraine which is just so crappy to deal with since you can't read or do anything until your vision isn't screwed up. I got to wait on hold for an hour Tuesday with the state tax department so I decided to sand and prime the newel post while listening to hold music designed to make you hang up. To quote Bugs Bunny "he don't know me vewy well, do he?" I got that squared away and later went out between pop up storms to deadhead some zinnias which you may have seen in Wednesday's post. Speaking of Wednesday, it was a busy day in the ga...
Drowning is one of the scariest ways to go in my opinion so I can understand being panicked. Choking is along the same lines for me, which leads me to the time I almost died:
ReplyDeleteWhen I was 4 years old we had these advent calendar things that Mom either made or bought for each kid and I had mine in my room. It had round candies on it (I bet you know where this is going if you're reading this) and you were to take one off and eat it each day as you count toward Christmas. Well I wanted the next days cause it was my favorite flavor, so I took it. Then I started choking and all I knew to do was run to where my Mom and my Aunt were sitting in the kitchen. My Mom was able to put her finger down my throat and I remember to this day the feeling of not being able to breathe while also having a fingernail scrape the inside of my throat. Thankfully she was able to get the candy out and promptly removed the advent calendar from my room. My Aunt sat there frozen the entire time and was likely more freaked out by it than I was.
You would have thought that event would have prevented me from ever wanting to sneak food again - but alas, my will to sneak food was far greater!
That story is awful and I'm surprised your aunt sat there. If it's the one I think it was, I for some reason picture her knowing the Heimlich. So glad you were able to run down there in time to get her attention!
DeleteI'm deeply afraid of uncontrolled fire. I've been in a house fire and a car fire and still think about those events to this day. When I see the news stories about the wildfires I get sick thinking of people and animals being trapped. Hearing fire trucks causes a similar reaction.
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, I can't imagine being in that situation once much less twice. I'm so glad you were okay (physically) in both instances!
DeleteI felt panic just reading about your near drowning. I had it happen to me as a kid, in Lake Ontario, huge waves and undertow, I was only like knee deep in the water, but I could not get back up from under, with the strong current pulling me out...it was terrifying. I don't like deep water, nor swimming in the ocean, I stay by the shore, and when I have nightmares, they involve dark angry water, and big waves...
ReplyDeleteI hate that you can relate to that. Lakes are NO JOKE. We were in a very bad undertow in Lake Michigan on our board/kayak that almost sucked us out and tossed us around pretty good. I never underestimated a lake again! I love the movie The Shallows but any time she's in the water, my heart rate shoots up.
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