This week at work we were talking about the ''myth'' that it is impossible to dry swallow a tablespoon full of cinnamon. Let me just say, I am not the type to attempt disproving these random, crazy facts. Well, I don't know if it was the long exposure to the sun or my frivolous attempt to be rebellious... but I actually tried to swallow an entire tablespoon of cinnamon. My two roommates, Brittany and Emma, along with Brittany's boyfriend all piled out onto our balcony at watch me attempt this crazy fact that they have never heard of before. I was a bit full of myself and thought I could actually accomplish this, how hard could it be, right? Wrong. I loaded that tablespoon full of spicy cinnamon and sent it plunging down my esophagus only to be coughed back up and then tragically inhaled into my lungs. The cinnamon left my throat as dry as the desert in a midsummer's drought. I could not breathe. My lungs began to close up leaving my face to display the desperation I was in for the source of life, air. I was seriously turning purple. My roommates got so frantic and had deer in headlight eyes, as did I. They were about to call the ambulance when I squeezed out a "Water, I need water". I sounded like I had been smoking a pack a day for 75 years! The pain of speaking is indescribable. The air burned as it exited my body and the water did not help ease this discomfort. The first gulp of water that went down into my stomach triggered an overflow of my dinner that I had just eaten... all over the people's Persian rugs that they were drying downstairs. There was cinnamon ALL OVER the place. I the air, on my face, on my roommate's faces, on my neighbors $1,500 rugs. It was a total disaster. Not to mention the fact that nothing eased the discomfort taking place inside my body. I had to just wait it out and let it my throat naturally heal and lubricate itself. There is no cure, no salvation from the pain...except for 2.5 hours of vomiting and some hot tea and soup from Panera Bread when the nausea left. I am going to give some advise, if you're thinking, " I could totally do that"... you can't. Sorry. I was bound and determined to keep it down, and one of the most stubborn people I know, and I could not do it. Don't try this at home, kids....it's bad, and did not make me feel cinnasational.
