Thanks - definitely due to the anesthetic administered by the dentist. My wife needs surgery but I am afraid of a similar reaction while she is “under” and unable to warn of any obstructed breathing.
That is a dilemma.
In Warhol's case, he despised hospitals but needed a gall bladder operation.
He hired nurses to sit by his bedside 24/7...... indeed, his private nurse was at his bedside WHEN HE DIED.
She had apparently been reading when she looked up to check him---he had turned blue.
He was sedated....he could not indicate he was in trouble.
Hospital code blue was called....but they could not intubate him---to get oxygen into him. His throat had swelled.
Of course, they blamed it on rigor mortis....not an allergy.....for many years nobody knew why Warhol had died.