Choked to Death

Yesterday, I saw on my uncle's Facebook post that his mother (my step-grandmother) fell down, hurt her head and had to get stitches. So I SMS-ed my mom to tell her the news and after work, fetched both my parents to visit my grandma. While we were there, dinner was ready (uncle's gf cooked) and hence we told her to go ahead and have dinner while we entertain ourselves in the living room.

All was fine until we heard her coughed several times. I went back into the dining room to check on her and found her drinking water. Asked her if she was OK and she nodded. But then she was coughing, so my uncle's gf and I quickly got her a bowl to get her to spit out whatever that's choking her. Nothing came out and she waved that she was OK. So I patted her back and went back into the living room.

After awhile, we heard a LOUD wheezing sound and uncle's gf talking a lot louder and more urgently asking her to "spit it out, spit of out"! When I went back to the dining room, she was already gasping for breathe and to my horror, I saw her eyes rolling into the back of her head!!! I yelled for my parents and they came rushing in! My father used his finger and dug out a lump of rice that she had difficulty swallowing along with her dentures!!! Only after that she was able to breathe normally again!

I thought I was OK but little did I know, I was pretty shaken and traumatized by the whole ordeal. That night, I could barely sleep. The minute I closed my eyes, image of her and her eyes rolling into the back of her head appeared! It was only then that I realized she could have just choked to death there and then because of that small spoon of rice!!!

Life is indeed fragile and unpredictable! Time waits for no man, so remember to cherish the time you have with your loved ones. No point regretting later for then it'd all be too late... :(