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Technically the FU was last night, but just got home from the ER, so close enough.
So for background, I have severe sleep apnea. Like the doc looked at the sleep study and looked at me with a total wtf look in his eyes level of sleep apnea. So I sleep with a CPAP. Sleep great unless I'm congested, which obviously makes things difficult.
So last night I'm congested. My primary FU is in not taking a nasal steroid to let me breath enough to use the CPAP. I just say the hell with it and go to bed. So begins the apparently collosal snoring session. I wake up about two hours later and can't breath for shit. I swear to God it felt like I had swallowed a frog and it got stock in my sinuses. I'm literally having to focus on using my neck muscles to expand my airways enough to be able to breath. I can feel something huge in the back of my throat moving a little each time I try and breath. Nose, mouth, no difference. It's blocked almost completely and I'm freaking out a bit.
So cue trip to the hospital. No clue wtf is going on, didn't eat anything I could be allergic to, so that's not it. The closer I get, I slowly start getting a little better. Two hours later I'm mostly ok, just uncomfortable and the doc finally actually starts to check on what's wrong. I explain what has happened up to this point and he looks at my throat.
Well, I've now had two doctors look at me with massive wtf looks. Apparently my uvula (dangly thing in your throat) was thrashed so bad from snoring it had swelled to choking proportions. Pretty fucking sure this wasn't what WAP meant. Thankfully I'm back to being mostly better and get to see a host of doctors to figure out what we can do about it. Definitely not the normal reason for needing to go to the ER.
TL/DR: snored so fucking hard my uvula swelled to choking proportions and I had to go to the ER.
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