"It was a normal lunch time. My parents came to visit their grandson. He was eating avocado, what I thought was just a mushy safe food, when I noticed that the expression on hah face changed. He was having trouble swallowing and breathing.

I immediately knew he was choking and lifted him out of his seat, to hit has back to try to dislodge the avocado. It wasn’t working and his skin started to change color. I remembered that we bought a dechoker before bringing him home from the hospital, since choking is my husbands biggest fear. I ran to the cabinet, grabbed the dechoker, put it into my sons mouth and popped out the avocado. He gasped and started breathing, we all did. Then we all cried being so grateful that we had it on hand." - Caroline C.