Oxygen and breathing is the one habit I'm happy for all my patients to have. Congratulations on being alive. The pain between the shoulderblades is probably from people bashing you on the back to try and get the food out. Our 'protocol' is... 1) Encourage patient to cough. 2) 5 Back slaps (between the shoulderblades with the heel of your hand) 3) 5 abdominal thrusts (the Heimlich that you can do laying down) With children you do chest compressions instead of abdominal thrusts because they have squishier internal organs. You probably don't remember this because of the whole passing out through lack of oxygen thing.