Chocking: A Short Story

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‘’aaaaaa aaaaa’’ I tried to badly talk and explain that something is going wrong with me, but the words would not come out. I could hardly breath I couldn’t think what should I do, first thing came to my mind to run to mom and let her call an ambulance. I quickly sprinted out of my big bed just like a bat out of a cave. I ripped open and slammed the door as both my mother and my sister screamed ‘’what is the matter’’. I could not reply to them, my mother and sister thought I was maybe chocking so my sister jumped and tried to tap at my back. Since I was not actually chocking I slowly began to come back to myself as I was starting to catch my breath. That moment had changed my life tremendously. It was the scariest moment of my entire life. just the thought of I may experiouns that feeling again brings a pounding sensation to my heart and scares …show more content…

In the hospital, I had a lot of tests to try and find out what is the reason of why I chocked and made me unable to swallow. At first the doctors wasn’t so sure of what caused that, so I had to frequently go back and forth to the hospital and that cost me a lot of my high school time epically I was in my junior high the most crucial year to get high grades for a collage acceptance. My attendance was bad so dose my grades because sometimes I could not stay in school and attend regularly to my classes due to my sever symptoms. The doctors made me do an allergy test to make sure it wasn’t an allergic reaction of any kind of food but this wasn’t my case. I also had a pulmonology test to see if I had asthma or any breathing problems. Then I moved to a gastroenterologist, here my eating story started to be clear and unfold. After a lot of test the doctor came into a conclusion finally that what I had is a very severe acid reflux that cased my many chocking

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