Thankyou so much Melissa...I'v never thought of wetting down any of her food before...I think you are right about it not being called 'choking', I'm terrible with coming up with the right words..I'm not sure what a raccoon sounds like,,,and I still don't know how exactly to describe what she does.It's been going on for awhile now and at first I would always say (with a slight panic )are you okay?? She will say yea,my food gets stuck in my throat....Now, I'll say 'caimly' is evrything okay,and not all the time do I ask her,,,and she'll give me the same answer,,yea, I'm okay the food just gets stuck in my throat,,and later we need to try to get some of my mucous out...I know this might sound strange, but I'm so impressed that she'll tell me ,we need to work on getting her mucous out...Because she hates doing it....
Of course if some one is around her that doesn't know that she has CF,,well,,even the ones who do,,,they will sometimes jump and panic and ask her ,What was that,are you okay?? She'll say the same thing...
I thought it might be happening to her because of inflammation and how thick her mucous gets....It would help if the doctors would explain some things....I think some times they expect you to know everything..
Thankyou so much Melissa for explaining things so well..I'll start having her drink more when she eats and see if it helps some...
She's at the age where she's starting to realize, hey,how come no one elese is having to do treatments and go to the doctors all the time and they don't gag on their food when they eat???Sometimes I don't know what to say,,,and I LIED to her and told her ,,oh I used to do that all the time when I would eat and it gets better....Oh my God,,I'm a terrible person !!i'm sorry !!!
Of course if some one is around her that doesn't know that she has CF,,well,,even the ones who do,,,they will sometimes jump and panic and ask her ,What was that,are you okay?? She'll say the same thing...
I thought it might be happening to her because of inflammation and how thick her mucous gets....It would help if the doctors would explain some things....I think some times they expect you to know everything..
Thankyou so much Melissa for explaining things so well..I'll start having her drink more when she eats and see if it helps some...
She's at the age where she's starting to realize, hey,how come no one elese is having to do treatments and go to the doctors all the time and they don't gag on their food when they eat???Sometimes I don't know what to say,,,and I LIED to her and told her ,,oh I used to do that all the time when I would eat and it gets better....Oh my God,,I'm a terrible person !!i'm sorry !!!