Skinny Guy Almost Died by NOT CHEWING

DeLarla · December 30, 2005

My friend just came to visit. She asked to see my erosion pics cause she wanted to compare them to her Dad's recent horror story. He's a typical skinny guy who eats too fast. He was woofing down an apple that got stuck low in his esophagus. He freaked out and guzzled Water to push it through, but later almost bled to death. The ER surgeon, who had to repair his torn esophagus, said he would have been dead in one more hour if he didn't come in since he was literally bleeding to death.

Now I have one more thing to nag at my husband for. He's 2 chews and a gulp, so either he slows down or I start blending his pizza. The stomach can be a very scary place.

Mita · December 30, 2005

That reminds me of what happend at my boss's house this weekend. His friend has a very bad cough and coughed so hard he to tore open his esophagus. I would have never thought in a million years that was possible either coughing to much or eating. Just goes to show there is more to that pipe than just letting food ride to the stomach..

lovecats85 · December 30, 2005

Reminds me of some book my mom read that I think was a true story about some Swedish settlers in America way back when and they made this pudding and I guess it had alot of cornstarch and what not in it and the little girl was missing and they found her dead in the basement b/c she had snuck all the pudding, ate it all, it expanded in her stomach and her stomach expoloded!