blockage

Quite a few years ago I came close to dying. I had eaten a piece of toffee, which was probably bigger than I thought at the time, swallowed and somehow something went wrong and it didn't get very far before capping my air supply off completely.

It is a strange experience. You spend your whole life breathing without thinking much of it and then suddenly, nothing.

There is for a brief second of disbelief, which brings a non logical moment of stupidly. I tried to breathe through my mouth as well as my nose. Nothing.

Then you realise you are against the clock.