Adrenaline

At my day job I work with a variety of individuals who have an array of different needs from seizures to diabetes. Today was one of the scariest days I've had in a while. I am trained every year with CPR, Soars, seizures tra la la.  So I'd like to think I know what I'm doing in an emergency, I have a client with diabetes, the kind that needs sugar to stay  coherent *I only wish that was my problem*, at lunchtime I sent my co-worker off to lunch while I did lunch duty by myself on her way out I asked if this client had a snack today she said he didn't, she had forgotten. He was acting strange scratching, screaming and biting so I decided to get him some pop, I couldn't get it fast enough! He had a mouthful of sandwich and was choking because he was going into a seizure like state due to lack of sugar, I was desperate and tried to get him to spit it out into a napkin but he didn't respond, at that point he threw his head back and tensed his whole body like those fish that are stunned in water. Another client got really agitated and started to scream and freak out only adding to the stress of the situation, and I had to have another client take him outside so I could focus. The choking client fell to the floor and started to bang his head against the tile, I was able to put my hand behind his head to stop any major damage and he still had SANDWICH in his mouth! I didn't know what else to do so I just dumped some pop in his mouth to soften the bread and begun to sweep the goop out with my fingers, he kept biting me but I would get my hand out of the way before it hurt. By then two guys from upstairs came down and it took both of them to pick him up and bring him over to a chair so I can force the pop down. After half of the pop had been drunk he started to come around, his shirt was covered with mush and I was a sticky peanut buttery mess as well. Then the principal came and all the other big wigs and I had to tell the story over and over. I was shaking for an hour and could have gone for a run and been fine, I have had to do the Heimlich before and time seizures but this was nasty. Later on the individual would say to me "Lorda your lucky, special and awesome, is my shirt done washing? On a funny note the rest of my clients all sat there quietly during the whole shenanigan and...ate their lunch with out batting an eye. Afterward for about 30 mins I would have one say "it's over haha! over over over over huh huh huh"...she made me laugh and I was able to get on with my day.