The one about the Uvula
A week or so ago I was woken up at 5am by the sound of my other half choking, gasping, spluttering and gererally being very disruptive. He said his throat was sore.........and being a bloke i presumed he was just being a bit of a drama queen so I got him a nurofen and told him to go back to sleep. So 8am arrives and the alarm wakes me and I find myself alone in the bed and theres a faint noise in the distance.....sounds like coughing and wretching .....coming from the bathroom. On closer inspection I find himself doubled over the sink complaining that theres somethign stuck in his throat.......so I peer inside his gob to have a look.
I was greeted by the sigth of a severly swollen throat coupled by a uvula (although we were referring to it as the dangly thing that hangs down at the back of your mouth) that had swollen to about 7 times its regular size.....so much so that it was dangling down the back of his throat and he was quite literally choking on his own gob! He had to hold his head in a certain way so that he was constantly looking at the ceiling just so he could breath comfortably!
So off to the doctors we went. As he's only been living here just over a year and has never been sick enough to see a doctor hes not actualyl registered with a GP. So we went off to our local NHS clinic.....well what we thought was an NHS clinic....only to wait a half hour for it to open and then to be todl that it wasnt in fact an NHS clinic but a Mental hospital.....so we were sent packing. We eventually got to see a doctor at the Hospital who confessed that hed never seen anything like it! And proceeded to call his colleagues in for a look. After a lot of oohing and ahhing and a couple of Wows! (at this stage the poor sod was feeling like a circus freak) he was given a prescription for steroids (much to his delight) and some anitbiotics.
After a week of steroids, his uvula is still dementedly oversized (although he instsists hes used to it at this stage) and his dreams of 'iminent buffness' (that he was sure the steroids would cause) are shattered......
*Note to self.....swollen uvula & pot noodle is not a good combination.....noodles tend to get tangled in it leading to lots of choking and sporadic patches of half chewed noodles all over the living room......
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