Christina, I am thinking of you hoping you will find peace and wellness soon. I miss you around here as others do.

I actually somewhat understand swallowing issues. For a while, some years back, I had a fear of swallowing meat, especially red meat. I'm not 100% sure what sparked that back then, but I believe the fear itself made me more vulnerable to choking on it. Actually, I do very much recall an incident in my youth (maybe at 20 years old) that was scary. I won't tell the story because it is gross. Or at least it has grossed out the people I told.