Reply #8: I kinda drowned once - in puke. [View All]

[TNDemo]

During a difficult delivery when the anesthesiologist had failed to show up (midnight in a smaller town) the OB panicked and decided to put me out (malpractice - but I didn't sue since I came out the other side). Of course that corn dog and beans I had had for lunch immediately went into my lungs. I then knew nothing until I started to come to and had one of those nightmarish experiences that used to scare the fire out of me as a kid. There used to be those old afternoon movies where someone could not move and were being buried alive. They could think but not move. I started hearing and being aware of what was happening and realizing I really could not breathe. I was trying to hard to open my eyelids and eventually I did. Once I could speak (move lips - had a tube in my throat) I motioned to the crew around my bed that I couldn't breathe. Thankfully the doctor (new one) saw me and told me he knew I couldn't but they were working on it, which reassured me greatly. They were lavaging my lungs with water to clean them out. They would fill my lungs up, I would get to the point of passing out and then they would let me breathe. They did this over and over. It was like dying multiple times. Never saw a tunnel or had any warm fuzzy experience. Just wanted them to leave me the heck alone.