Stuck!

My first stuck episode was today and it was horrible. I took about three bites of a boca burger and the pain was unbearable. It feels like when you've eaten too big of a bite and it goes down really slow. You know the pain will go away, but you panic a little anyway. Take that pain and multiply it a few times. I also felt like I was dry drowning. I was getting air, but I felt like not enough. I tried to drink some water to get it to go down, but nothing worked. I didn't feel like I had to throw up, but I hurt. I went to the bathroom because my throat started making weird noises and I leaned over the toilet just in case something happened. Without any effort at all a big ball of goo slide out of my mouth. It was disgusting. It was all slimy and mucuousy. Not like if you chew food and spit it out. I don't know how it got all gooy, but man was it gross. I though that would make me feel better so I tried to go back on working, but the pain came back. I ended up having to go in the bathroom and get rid of 5 more balls of goo. As each ball of goo came up my esophagus started to feel better. There was no pressure or heaving like when you throw up. That was the weird part. It just slide out when I leaned over and opened my mouth. I didn't even realize that the food never went down it literally got stuck above my stoma and kept filling up to the back of my throat.

I had heard of this happening, but never knew what it would be like. I think it was the bun to the burger. I haven't had bread since surgery that hasn't been toasted. I think it just turned into a ball of dough in my throat and my body did not like that.

Note to self: Chew, Chew, Chew. Slow down. No more untoasted bread.