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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have not read the whole thread, but if the scarf strangled you - you need to go TO THE HOSPITAL NOW.

You might not have marks on the inside, but you might have internal damage. If you passed out - that is a really serious flag. I work in the field of domestic violence where a lot of people are strangled and know that it can be VERY VERY dangerous. Please - seek medical attention now.[/quote]

Or, the scarf put pressure on the carotid which temporarily cut off blood supply and caused OP to pass out. No strangulation necessary. [/quote]

Hey! Carotid poster! That is strangulation! Cutting off the blood supply/circulation!

I have a question for you— was your husband passed out for “several minutes?” I think most of us who are skeptical/confused are trying to express that if this were truly a fluke thing like what you described with your 10 year old, it would have been over too quickly for all of these intervening things to have happened (jumping on OPs face, playing games on the phone). So either she was out very briefly (in which case her children’s immediate leaps to these behaviors is especially concerning) or she was out for longer, which means there was another or multiple causes. Another possibility is that her 5 year old, not understanding the gravity, could have been hanging with his whole body weight on the scarf for some time. But then, if for whatever reason she was out for multiple minutes, again— she’d want to seek medical attention.[/quote]

Yes that is one definition - cutting off the blood supply. But I was going with the “to press someone’s throat so they cannot breathe” definition that I would assume most people would think of when they use that term. I am also guessing that’s what the domestic violence worker was referring to. But I would be wrong. [/quote]

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