As painful as it is, Im sure glad Im off Vicodin and Morphine Takes your breath away, at times, but tolerable 3/4ths of time. Not like an arm, isolate and immobilize, your stomach is allways on the move. Amazing, how a simple thing like clearing your throat is so difficult, but things like a hard pillow pressed into bread basket, basically spreading a large surface area to help suppress the cough, does help. I figured I would share this information with you folks, in case you should ever have to go through this yourselves. Life brings us on many journeys, we cant avoid as many as we would like to, so we just deal with them. Its how we get through these experiences that marks our life. Me, if I can be a good steward of myexperiences, perhaps they were not in vain, but rather somewhat of a barometer for others to measure how they may handle similiar events.