• BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    3 hours ago

    My son used to eat too fast without chewing properly.
    He’d just swallow lumps of food sometimes, even though we’d actively work on slowing down.

    He was a solid mass of a kid from his down syndrome, (he has the physique of a silverback)

    He went wide eyed at dinner one night and wasn’t breathing, I had to get him out of the chair and spun around for a heimlich maneuver. Because he was choking he was going all limp, and I’d just finished cancer treatment so I was fatigued and weak AF, so it took everything I had to lift him and do the heimlich. He coughed out the food on the first or second try. Thankfully, because I was done after that exertion.

    • Victor@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      Dude.

      1. Son has down syndrome ❤️
      2. Almost died ❤️
      3. You saved him ❤️
      4. You survived cancer ❤️

      What a mic drop of a post.

      Take care, friend!