Booody fingernail stuck in throat

[SinkGirl]

Ugh. I’ve bitten my nails since I was little - I stopped when I was about 18 but sometimes have a subconscious recurrence when I’m really stressed. Don’t even know I’m doing it until it’s happened most of the time.

Happened yesterday and one of my twins bumped into me and I inhaled it. Balls. Did lots of coughing as I was worried it would end up in my lung (that story about the woman who inhaled a pin has haunted me for years). Felt it in my throat but couldn’t shift it.

Now this morning my throat hurts and is producing all manner of gunk, I guess in an effort to expel it...

Do I need to worry about this or will it sort itself out? It’s only a small bit, not like a giant false nail or something!

I’m such an idiot. And it’s gross. Sorry.

A can of full fat coke.. it should help to move it. It's what we tell people in a&e who present with similar complaints

Oh thank you, I will pick one up while I drop off my twins this morning.

It may well not be actually stuck - what you are feeling is a scratch or tiny tear as it made its way down. Either way, it'll find its way down eventually.

Yikes, sounds painful! Also maybe dry bread? Apparently that’s good for fishbones stuck in throat so might work for your nail. The peril of toddlers! Dd once knocked me as I was putting mascara on and I shoved the whole brush in my eye. Couldn’t open it properly for days!

Oh bless you mustard. The twins are very hazardous to my health - one put three huge gouges down my cornea while I was putting him in his car seat and the other broke my nose. Sigh.

Yes, could definitely be a scratch I’m feeling as it’s hard to tell isn’t it? Guess my breakfast this morning will be coke and a piece of bread 😂