Wow... Glad you are fine. Why strain when you can blend/juice? There are some simple easy recipes for great soups. I guess they shouldn't be too hot too, it doesn't help the healing. For a velouté or vellutata, You just put in a pot the "usual suspects": onion celery and carrot, then you add the main ingredient like pumpkin/butternut squash or potatoes, or legumes like soaked brown lentils... Tomatoes or any ther veg you like, meat or fish if looking for substance. Then salt, herbs (avoiding chilli and spicy stuff in your case) Top it up with some extra virgin, parmesan or blue cheese.. and blend it all. Ingredients don't even need to be chopped much cause of the blending later. I use an instant pot, which is an electric pressure pot, and those are done in 20min from beginning to end, otherwise is about 45min... I hope you like ice cream!
Good thread, and I'm glad you're okay. Serves as a much-needed reminder and cautionary tale for some of us who have a tendency to wolf down our food, so thanks for that. In addition to the other liquid diet recommendations, is oatmeal a possibility, using either oats or oat bran, while you're recovering? Perhaps fortified with ground flaxseed. And I imagine you'd have to let it stand for quite a while. Perhaps even refrigerate it overnight and heat it up again the next day. I also add black chia seeds when soaking overnight, but you might want to skip that for a time. As I recall, you're not a fan of milk. But the above ingredients together with skim milk and unsweetened baking cocoa, and maybe even a bit of wheat bran, make for a satisfying meal. (Refrigerated overnight in your case!)
Wow, that's crazy. The problem, at least from what I've seen, is that people often choke when they are shit-faced drunk and their friends are drunk. A few months ago, about 10 of us got a party bus and went to EDC in Orlando. Everything was fine at the festival, but on the way home, we stopped and got a ton of McDonalds junk via the drive-thru. By the time we got back to my buddy's house, we all got off the bus carrying half-eaten burgers and fries in our hands, and one of the guys choked as he was walking away from the bus. He stumbled to a nearby railing that was on the side of some stairs that led up to the front porch of the house, and I will never forget the sounds he was making as he leaned over the railing with a purple face, so I ran over and wrapped my arms around him from behind but luckily the food dislodged before I could even start an aggressive Heimlich on him. I was definitely not sober and my friends were so shit-faced, they didn't even know it happened, which is the scariest part of all. I'm just happy it ended the way it did, but damn, it was a close one for sure.
I would normally make a dumb crack about "masticate" but choking isn't really funny. Glad Des made it. ET would be a much duller place!
We did rounds with the attending at Cook County when I was a second year. Dude comes in sht-faced and has a uneaten hot dog lodged below the trachea and upper esophageal sphincter. He can breathe but obv uncomfortable. I didn't witness the removal but saw the hot dog later. It was whole. It was lightly chewed and whole. Quick thinking on your part!
On a dime. I had a mouthful of green tea as well. Sprayed everywhere. Finn was playing Tarkov and had located some super special thing on the map. Haha he had cleared the lobby of all but two guys so he was happy that he wasn't looted while AFK. "I'm in the middle of a match" to "stop fcking around!"