I was feasting on left over tilapia last night when I accidentally
swallowed a fish bone which to my reckoning is lodged somewhere in my
esophagus (at least that's how it felt like). It has been a long while since I had myself in this
situation and recalling my last bout with an inadvertent fish bone, I
remember my mother telling me to swallow a bite of banana.
Unfortunately, there was no banana on hand (except for a banana figurine
which I decided not to go with unless I want to further aggravate my
current situation). So I just went with what was available. First, I
swallowed a chunck of rice---GULP! But the pesky bone was still there!
I swallowed another chunk---nope, still there! My, my, this bone sure
is tenacious! After a couple more rice chunks I'm already full (Boy,
there goes my no carb diet!) but still the bone remained.
It's not really painful but it's really irritating like an itch you
couldn't reach! Every once in a while you'll feel a prick and you
hesitate to swallow with the fear of further imbedding it. Well, I'm
still struggling to dislodge it as of this writing and so far even
swallowing a whole pandesal couldn't budge it! Sigh!
