Choking

I'm at Stumptown on 10th and Stark and I just had a terrible coughing attack. It's awful when those happen.  There was a pinching itch in the back of my throat that wouldn't go away and water wasn't helping. So, my face started to get bright red and I was tearing up and looked like I was crying. And then I started to have a panic attack because it wouldn't stop and I think that made it worse. And everyone was just staring...hahaha.

I used to get crazy coughing attacks like that all the time in high school. I remember in Spanish one day (sophomore year) it was so bad and I could barely talk and I went up to the teacher and managed to spit out "Can..I....go..WATER" and she ushered me out real quick cuz it looked like I was dying. On the way out, some kid was like "Oh shit, look how red her face is!" Yea, I was extremely embarrassed. I was convinced that something was wrong with my tonsils, and I tried to convince my mom to let me get my tonsils taken out, but she wouldn't have it. I think that was around the time that she started to realize that I am a hypochondriac.