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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ambrus" data-source="post: 3163693" data-attributes="member: 17691">Just a few minutes ago I had to help a woman from across the hall (in our small office building) who was choking! She banged loudly on our office door (odd that she'd stop to do that first aint it?) and when I rushed over to see what the commotion was about I saw that she was all flushed, bug-eyed and desperately trying to breathe. I quickly spun her around and delivered the Heimlich manoeuvre with a few hard jerks. When I saw that she hadn't spit out anything I tried a few more times. I started to panic because I thought that I wasn't managing to dislodge whatever was in her throat but she motioned that she was okay as she started gasping and coughing. My boss was peaking around the corner with the phone to his ear while talking to 911 and updating them on her progress.She then leaned up against the wall to steady herself while coughing and shaking. While we were waiting for the paramedics to arrive to check up her she managed to explain that what she'd been choking on was her own saliva. She'd tried swallowing normally but it went down the wrong way and she'd suddenly been unable to breathe. That's right, the woman almost choked to death on her own spit! I suspect that it might have something to do with the fact that I usually only see her when she's going to or coming back from her frequent smoke breaks... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> I could rant on about smokers but what'd be the point? :\</blockquote>

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