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rolling rock
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 Posted: 07/30/05 - 13:51 Post subject: today's odd running experience
warning: it's gross too
i went out to run this morning and not even out of my first mile, i inhaled and thwack - a japanese beetle goes in and sticks itself on the back of my throat. i stopped, realized what it was, and started, um, gagging to get it out. he was hanging on for dear life. poof - out it comes.
it still feels very weird "back there" swelling, burning like a sore throat and feels like there's still something stuck there... 
i wind up in the ER with the ER doctor trying unsucessfully to get this "thing" out of my throat -- the way back of my soft palate (new word for me). he calls the ENT surgeon who takes forever to get down to see me. i get an IV to sedate me and calm the gag reflex which, by the way, gets really sensitive when there's a portion of a japanese beetle lodged in your throat.
surgeon guy comes in, i tell him i think i have a beetle leg stuck in my throat. he puts on his fiber-optic miner's light, pulls out a long forceps type thing and gets it out after a few tries, no problems from me at this point. he was my hero even though it took him an hour to come down 
yes, it's a beetle leg and he puts it in a take-home jar for me. he was a cyclist and told stories of bees hitting his face on the downhill...and stuff. seeing as i was the only non heart-attack symptom person in that ER, i was the talk of the room. don't go home yet we wanna see the leg.
oh, and i'm a jogger who looks to be about 40 
isn't that weird?
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bburgoyne26
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Posted: 07/30/05 - 13:56 Post subject:
"Jogger"?......harumph....I'd sue...... 
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Cappy
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Posted: 07/30/05 - 14:18 Post subject:
Glad you're okay
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akern
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Posted: 07/30/05 - 14:48 Post subject:
What were you doing jogging with your mouth wide open??!!
Great! Now sedentary people worldwide are going to be using this as an excuse not to exercise!
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EEEK! Running? I hear your uterus will fall out and Japanese Beetles get lodged in your throat! GIMME a Twinkie instead!! |
Ok seriously, glad you're ok and you MUST take pictures of that leg!!
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purple hayes
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Posted: 07/30/05 - 15:07 Post subject:
/I'm sorry, really.
I get hit in the face by bugs all the time while I'm riding. I don't ride around with my mouth open though.
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Kimba90
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Posted: 07/30/05 - 15:41 Post subject:
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.
Wow, that was an expensive jog this morning.
Glad you're okay!!
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cherylpf
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Posted: 07/30/05 - 15:51 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: |
/I'm sorry, really.
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  I'm sorry you wound up in the ER over it but what a hellafubby retelling of it all....
I swallowed a bug (much smaller than a japenese beetle) while running just the other day. Its pretty normal for me and cycling but it was a new experience for me with running. /just call me a mouth breather 
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TriBob
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Posted: 07/30/05 - 15:54 Post subject:
I guess Fear Factor is out.
Glad you are OK.
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rolling rock
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Posted: 07/30/05 - 16:03 Post subject:
| Sedentary Commoner wrote: |
EEEK! Running? I hear your uterus will fall out and Japanese Beetles get lodged in your throat! GIMME a Twinkie instead!! |
straight out of The LORE of RUNNING, chapter 4 bug lodgings.
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crazyfrog
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Posted: 07/30/05 - 16:43 Post subject:
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 glad youre ok.
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ShannonG
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Posted: 07/30/05 - 16:53 Post subject:
That is fully nasty. I swallow bugs all the time, but they're tiny little things and go down like candy.
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Posted: 07/30/05 - 18:22 Post subject:
I would have freaked out.
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bburgoyne26
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Posted: 07/30/05 - 18:33 Post subject:
| ShannonG wrote: | | That is fully nasty. I swallow bugs all the time, but they're tiny little things and go down like candy. |
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Posted: 07/30/05 - 18:37 Post subject:
RR -
How nasty! I'm glad that you are ok!!
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Posted: 07/30/05 - 19:34 Post subject:
Glad you are ok!
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