And they gave me a very specific mark to hit, and I panicked, and I pulled the handbrake very hard, turned the car, managed-- basically handbrake turned a 1910 Renault, with basically a national treasure in the backseat.
The swallowing pattern you want to develop is where your tongue pushes tightly up against the palate to pull the food into the esophagus, what you don't want is to swallow with your tongue sucking on your teeth.
This reduction is especially noticeable in the first second of air breathed out in a single breath, called FEV1—forced expiratory volume (in one second), which typically is reduced even more than the FVC.
If only I could stretch my roots so deep and straight that something tugging on my stem couldn't separate me completely from the source that feeds me life.