My Pill Fiasco

I have been taking pills since I was about 7 years old(I was a sickly child!) I have watched as most of my siblings struggle to learn how to swallow pills, amazed that it is such a difficult task for some people. I guess starting at such a young age, and with all my practice, it just came naturally to me. You put the pill on your tongue, take a drink of water, and swallow--simple as that! I have even gotten to the point where I will take two pills at a time, and if there is no water around, I'll just swallow them dry. Anyways on to my fiasco...

I have been taking 6 pills a day(2 at each meal) since Monday to help with my milk production. I didn't even think twice about having to do this, it was just no big deal to me. Then yesterday at lunchtime, I popped two pills in my mouth, and took a drink of water, very ready to get on with eating my lunch. Only this time one of the pills turned and went down sideways. Of course it didn't go all the way down...instead it got lodged in my throat. I tried to drink some more water, which wouldn't go down either, and caused me to gag and choke. Once I got the water to come back up, I decided to try a few other things. I tried the bulemic approach, sticking my finger down my throat, which did make me gag, but did nothing for the pill stuck in there. After several failed attempts at different options, I decided that I was just going to have to wait until it desolved, it would have to eventually desolve, I figured.

So, I waited.....and waited.....and waited. While I was waiting I found out the hard way that swallowing caused me to gag and wasn't a very pleasant experience. So I waited, drooled, and spit for about 4 hours. Travis got home from work about
3 1/2 hours into my ordeal and tried shoving his finger down my throat. He was successful in pushing it down a little farther, but it was still stuck. Finally, after trying to drink water yet again, I managed to gag and choke enough to get it to go the rest of the way down.

It was a long day yesterday, and I wasn't a very good mom--I let Parker cry in his crib for quite awhile:( But I did learn something. Even "experts" have mishaps now and then, AND only take one pill at a time!!