Nope, this is a book called Memory Book which I'm reading now. But its language is too complex and I guess Canadian language.
The context is as I said there's a man in a hospital which suffers from loosing memory and this sentence is the first sentence of a new chapter. So it starts as this and goes with that the supervisor of the interns come and say this:
“Ah-hah! He is crowded back there. Bet he can’t
brush his teeth without choking.” She gave them hell for
not checking the back of my throat.
As the meaning of to thump, I couldn't understand what she's talking about. Is she talking about his tonsillar? And could you tell me the meaning of thump again? I think that there's a different meaning from to hit?