A long night in the ER

Yesterday, i made pasta/chicken for dinner and Geoff came home famished from work (which is not a new thing... I seriously think there is a fat kid living inside of his normal size body! haha) and all of the sudden Geoff disappeared and when I went to check on him he said something was wrong. He knew that a piece of chicken did not go down right and he was experiencing extreme discomfort. He tried self induced vomiting, sipping on water (only to have it come right back up because his throat was blocked) and everything else we could read online. He was breathing fine but he just could not eat or drink and felt a lot of pressure in his esophagus. He decided he would go to bed and not worry about it. I kept urging him to go to the ER but since he is beginning his new job in a couple of weeks he is currently without insurance til then and didn't want the medical expenses. Around 1:30am I put my foot down and we drove to the ER. They tried giving him muscle relaxers to help ease the food down, but that didn't work so they had to call in the on-call doctors to come in and perform surgery on Geoff. It was only supposed to be a 20 min procedure so when an hour passed I went and asked the nurse what was going on. She said the chicken was so large and now dry that they were having a hard time getting it out. 2 hours later, they finally did. I am happy to say he is doing fine and well and just resting today. We feel very blessed it was nothing serious and he can eat again! (He is on a soft food diet so of course he had ice-cream for breakfast). Thanks for all the love and concern from those who knew was going on. I sure do love this man and was worried sick about all of this. Thank goodness he is fine-- from now on I will just mash up all his food and make him take VERY small bites.