I almost died in the stupidest way

[Chloefairydust]

So I woke up with the worst of sore throats, and I’m the kind of person who when I come down with a cold, it literally drags on for weeks and weeks and normally leads to a chest infection.

That is until I discovered the gross but effective cure of raw garlic. I read somewhere that if you swallow a small whole raw small garlic clove with a glass of water that it cures the common cold. It actually does work as well. I have been doing this for the past couple of years.

Until this morning, and somehow this garlic clove was just the right shape to get lodged in my throat. I couldn’t breathe or swallow or make a sound. I was home alone and sooo frightened. Somehow I managed to hit my own chest with my head facing down and spat out the offending garlic. So I almost died in the stupidest of ways….

I think now on I’m going to chop the garlic into tiny pieces to cure a cold.

But thought I would warn people who might be as stupid as me not to kill yourself with garlic 🧄

If you have had a near death experience in a similarly stupid way please share to make me feel less of an idiot?

Thank God it's not just me!

I'm always knocking myself out, often in ridiculous ways. I well remember going it to work one morning within impressive buys on my temple. I'd got up for a wee during the night and tripped over the dog, hitting my head on the bathroom door frame. DH found me unconscious god-alone0knows-how-much-later.

When I told people at work what happened :I knocked myself out again", they were all "AGAIN???"

NOT ONE OF THEM HAD EVER KNOCKED THEMSELVES OUT!

I thought everybody must, but it was just me. I could list about 10 incidents without even having to think about it.

I am also incredibly clumsy. I break things a lot as well and do silly stuff like walking into walls because I misjudge where they are,.

*impressive bruise, not buys

(I can't type for toffee either)

I know somebody who bit the bottom end off an ice cream cone, sucked hard, and got a large solid lump of ice cream lodged in his throat. He couldn't breathe at all, and he said to me that all he could think of was that he'd die, the ice cream would melt, and nobody would know what had killed him!

Fortunately, on the point of him nearly passing out, it did melt enough for him to cough it up again.

@MrsTumblebee I’m so sorry to hear that 💐

It is really so scary to choke on something

My dh nearly had a similar experience but with a part of his desk chair he’d somehow taken off and chewed and accidentally swallowed. I was downstairs with the children but he couldn’t make a noise either. Part of me laughs at his stupidity and the other half of me is horrified at how easily I could I’ve walked in to find his lifeless body

Hilarious!! Glad you eventually recovered though! x

Shudder, I'm ok with blood but this just gave me the willies.
We used to keep our mezzaluna on top of the kitchen cupboards. I've moved it now - that's an accident I don't want to wait to happen.

Oh you beautiful Dr Okun person

Maybe just stick with Lemsip in future. No actual lemons to choke on. Seriously, glad you are ok. It's my worst fear as I line on my own and once choked on an ibuprofen tablet in the middle of the night.

I fractured my orbit whilst windsuring over 1/2 a mile offshore in 4m waves, how i wasn't knocked out I'll never know.

My helmet was in the boot of my car.

@Mariposa123 Your husband was eating his desk chair??? 😂

It’s very scary choking isn’t it? I got some food lodged in my throat a couple of years ago and thought I was going to die. Luckily I had some drink by me and kept drinking until it dislodged, I was pretty traumatised after. I got scared to eat food and made sure I chewed it to almost liquid and then about a year later I choked badly on water (that was horrible) so now I’m afraid of solids and liquids choking me 😕

I've been nearly run over, nearly attacked by a pack of stray dogs in India and nearly drowned in the sea in Greece. Got 6 more of my 9 lives left!

Similar has been shown for oil of oregano (though really strong and nasty, but doesn't stink like garlic for days afterwards) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24779581/

I'm always worried about choking on food so I am glad you are okay and managed to get it out on your own.

This did make me lol All I could think was "I cannot ring the fire brigade and tell them my watering can is on fire!"

I once gave myself whiplash and I think a bit of concussion. We had an absolute bastard of an upright hoover which when using the hose to clean up crevices etc, used to shorten the hose and pull the cleaner towards you. This would cause the hoover to topple onto you so I got hit on the head at the same time as I tried to move away from it. So glad it finally gave up (may have been helped on its way 😉)

Visiting parents, given old upstairs bedroom. Mother proceeds to tidy up after I have gone to bed and places my shiny covered and slippy travelling magazines on top of a jumper about six steps up. I get up to go to the loo in the middle of the night. Don’t put light on. Go downstairs, foot lands on top of magazine, I turn into Bambi and bounce down the rest of the stairs landing in a crumpled heap. Sheer luck I didn’t hit my head. Was absolutely black and blue for about a week. Mother remarks the next morning about hearing a bit of a thump overnight. I show her bruise. She says it could have been worse. That was about as much sympathy as we ever got tbf.

I more often choke on liquids. Was eating some pineapple while parked up looking at the sea. Some juice went down the wrong way and I struggled to breathe for a while.
Worried my teenager in the passenger seat.
It hurt for ages afterwards. The aforementioned delightful teen told me it was the enzymes in the pineapple juice dissolving me from the inside.

I flat shared with a guy once who was usually pretty intelligent. He has the box room and decided he'd get one of those plug in air freshener things, slept with it on full blast overnight and was having trouble breathing when he woke up.

Didn't put two and two together till the next evening when I had to run him to a&e on the advice of 111. He'd gassed himself with cotton fresh glade.

You'll be telling us snake oil cures cancer next...

I got a clove from some mulled wine stuck in my throat. I thought I was going to die. My friend eventually hit me on the back and it came out. It was a horrible experience as I couldn't get anyone's attention for a while.

A Malteser near killed me I was eating in class. Luckily the teacher knew what was happening or I wouldn't be here today.

It’s okay. 😊

I once saw someone choking. And although I shouldn’t laugh. All things considered. I do.

It was a lady in a very empty restaurant and she choked on what she was eating. Actually it was the family area and we were the only people in it - but I was in the loo. A man who was on the way to the loo caught sight of her distress and immediately tried the Heimlich maneuver just as I came out of the loo, and that was when one one of the staff came out of the kitchen and tried to beat the man up for attacking the woman. It was bedlam but the woman was okay and the man who saved her and was beaten up got a very big thank you from her husband when he was told. I laugh about it now.

I'm ashamed at how much I'm laughing at all these near death experiences. Warped humour at best!

I put the carving knife blade up in a bowl on the side ready to go in the dishwasher. Then I bent down to open a drawer. Can't believe I did this! Stabbed myself in the forehead, it could have been an eye. I'm an idiot! See, housework is not for softies!

Gargling with some tree tea oil in water also eases a sore throat.