Originally Posted by
DanteB
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Panic………because you can’t breathe, what are you talking about? Let’s see “when you can’t breathe, nothing else matters”. Try this if you want to know what it is like to have an asthma attack and see if you have a little panic. Take one of the small red cocktail straws and put it in your mouth and seal your lips around it. Clamp your nose and breathe through the straw,
Congratulations,....you just scared the crap outta me.
But it was an excellent example. I dont have asthma, and never did, but I did have heart surgery back in '97 where they took me off the 'heart/lung machine' and made me breathe on my own. What you described is remarkably 'spot on'. For three days I laid on my back in an IC ward trying to breathe just like you described. It was the most terrifying three days of my life. They had me pumped up with large doses of xannax and whatever else they could find just tp keep me from freaking the f'ck out. It was very very hard on me and I still shudder to think about it.
I guess I've had a 'taste' of what you've described.
