The Lesson Here Cut Your Steak and Chew Your Food And Oh yeah Happy Anniversary!!!

Brian and I celebrated our twelve year anniversary this year. December 27th is our anniversary so we decided to go to the Trail Dust for dinner and then we were going to leave for Utah at 5am the next morning. So we left the boys with my mom and headed to the Trail Dust. Brian was very excited to eat his steak and the first bite he took went down the wrong way. Just how wrong we did not know. Brian tried to drink a bunch of water to get the bite to go down but he ended up throwing up the water all over his plate...lovely. So Brian got up and went to the bathroom. I covered his plate up with napkins and kept eating my steak (can't let a good steak go to waste:)....anyway, Brian could still breath and I thought he would just throw it up in the bathroom and be done with it, but after 20 minutes or so in the bathroom I sent the waiter in to make sure he was still alive. Brian finally came out of the bathroom and informed me that the steak was still stuck in his throat and we would need to make a trip to the emergency room. So we headed to Centennial Medical Plaza, about 15 minutes down the street. Brian threw up out the window once and got throw up all over the side of the van. Once we got the emergency room they asked Brian if he was having trouble breathing or chest pain and when he answered yes to both questions yes they rushed him right back to the ER. When he told them the story of what happened I could not control my laughter and the nurses joined in. I also called my sister-in-law in Utah to let her know what was going on we had a good little laugh ourselves:) Then Brian asked me to call his Mom and I told him that I could not do that because I would laugh and she would think that I was terrible. At the ER they tried giving Brain cola because that supposedly breaks up the steak and helps it go down. That did not work so they gave him a muscle relaxer to see if they could get the steak to go up or down. The first muscle relaxer did not work so they gave him nitro glycerin which is another muscle relaxer to see if that would work. When nothing worked they decided to transfer Brain to Aurora Medical Center so a gastro specialist could do a scope on his throat and see exactly where the steak was stuck. All I could think was are you serious you can't just throw the piece of meat up and save us a little time and money. But no, so it was off the the second ER of the night. So we drove to Aurora Medical Center and waited a couple of hours for the gastro DR to get there. Luckily Brian and I kept our sense of humor and were laughing the whole time. The nurses and Dr's were getting a good little chuckle out of the whole situation too:) The gastro Dr finally got there and they knocked Brain out and scoped him. They doctor came and got me when they were done and told me that they pulled the piece of steak out of Brian's throat. He said that it did not look like he chewed it very much. While they were in there they saw that Brian's esophagus was narrowed at the base where it connected to his stomach so he has to go back in 4 to 6 weeks and have his esophagus stretched. Lovely!!! When Brian woke up he was so out of it and it was hilarious, he was telling all the nurses that he was going to go work out because all the ladies like to see him with his shirt off. Finally at 2am we headed home. An anniversary to remember!!! Here's to another 12 wonderful years (I really mean that) it has been great and I can't wait to see what the next 12 years bring.