He was chewing on a stick and started pulling his mouth back and coughing, like he was choking. It was getting dark and I could barely see. I kept sticking my hand down his throat to clear whatever it was. I didn’t know how much air he was getting, if any at all. I was completely panicked. Every time I’d stick my hand down and wait, I thought he was ok, but then he’d cough again, trying to get something up.

Turns out the stick was lodged sideways in the roof of his mouth. I kept missing it because it just felt like the ridges up there. It was a very traumatic 5 minutes!