This morning was a warmer morning to run, but we had 35 mph wind
gusts. It would knock me back to below a 8 minute pace. Warmer
temperature but we just had to have the wind gusts. I guess the
perfect running days are over with for a while. Although I was really
in no hurry to get out of bed after a issue after yesterday which I
will explain more later.
I ran 8.1 miles at an overall 7:14 pace in 58:35. I had a
really bad headache this morning. Part of it do to the lack of sleep
from work. Yesterday was a rough day on me in a number of ways. Lunch I ran 4.6 miles with the last .6 under a 6 minute pace on the treadmill at home.
My wife saved my life yesterday and I'm serious when I say
that. I will explain what happen. I was eating an apple Sunday
morning along with a banana while getting ready for Church, and the
apple got lodged in my throat or further down I'm not really sure. All
of a sudden I had a burning sensation in my throat and I couldn't
breath. I went into the bathroom and tried to stick my hand down my
throat to try to vomit. That didn't work I tried this for two
minutes. I struggled back into the kitchen and throw my banana down
out of my other hand (don't know why I still had that in my hand), and
I started gasping for breath. My wife came overr and said "whats
wrong", but I couldn't talk or breath and I was at the point were I
felt I was going to loseconsciousness (this is now probably 4 minutes in the choking phase)
. My wife noticed my face and hands were blue so she got behind me and
did the choking technique your suppose to use on adults (she and I are
CPR certified) and deposits came out, but I was still choking. She
did it again and more deposits came out. After the second time I drink
some water and I was still not able to breath and she did it again and
the water came out and I felt like something drop in my throat and I
was fine after the three attempt. My wife quickly gave me mike to coat
my stomach and that really helped. I'm grateful for my wife,
because I would have been in trouble if she wasn't there. What would
we do without our spouse. After this event I was really weak the rest
of the day and had a hard time putting up our Christmas lights and my
breathing wasn't right, but I feel better today except I did feel
strong on my runs and still a little weak. Could by that it was such a
shock to my system.
Below is the warning signs for choking and I was on the last stage.
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Recognize the warning signs of obstruction in the throat or windpipe:
- an inability to talk
- troubled or noisy breathing
- the inability to cough forcefully
- making the universal "choking
sign"
- lips, skin and nails turning blue or a grayish color
- panic
- loss of consciousness
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