Sarah Silverman Recalls 'Freak' Health Condition That Led to Her Being Treated in ICU
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The 'Masters of Sex' star thanks her loved ones for being there when she was treated at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for epiglottitis that required surgery.

AceShowbiz - Sarah Silverman reveals she almost died last week and is thankful that she's still alive. The funnywoman took to Facebook on Wednesday, July 6 to recall a "freak" health condition that led to her being treated in ICU last week.

"Don't even know why I went to the doctor, it was just a sore throat. But I had a freak case of epiglottitis," she wrote. Epiglottitis is a potentially life-threatening condition that occurs when a small cartilage lid that covers your windpipe swells, blocking the flow of air into your lungs, according to Mayo Clinic. It can cause respiratory failure.

"There's something that happens when three people you're so close to die within a year and then YOU almost die but don't. (That was me. I'm the one that didn't die.) It's a strange dichotomy between, 'Why me?' and the other, 'Why me?' " she continued.

"They couldn't put me fully to sleep for the recovery process because my blood pressure's too low. I was drugged just enough to not feel the pain and have no idea what was happening or where I was. They had to have my hands restrained to keep me from pulling out my breathing tube. My friend Stephanie said I kept writing 'was I in an accident?' "

The 45-year-old comedienne went on sharing, "When I woke up 5 days later I didn't remember anything. I thanked everyone at the ICU for my life, went home, and then slowly as the opiates faded away, remembered the trauma of the surgery & spent the first two days home kind of free-falling from the meds / lack of meds and the paralyzing realization that nothing matters. Luckily that was followed by the motivating revelation that nothing matters."

The former "Saturday Night Live" writer called her boyfriend Michael Sheen her "real-life hero" and thanked him and her "amazing Sissies (blood & otherwise) & friendos" who made sure she wasn't alone in the hospital. "It makes me cry. Which hurts my throat. So stop," she wrote.

Sharing some funny moments during her hospital stay, she added, "I couldn't speak for a while and I don't remember a lot of my 'lucid' time, but Amy (the Zvi) told me I stopped a nurse - like it was an emergency - furiously wrote down a note and gave it to her. When she looked at it, it just said, 'Do you live with your mother?' next to a drawing of a penis."

"Also, when I first woke up and the breathing tube came out, I still couldn't talk and they gave me a board of letters to communicate. My loved ones stood there, so curious what was going to be the first thing I had to say. They followed my finger, rapt, as I pointed from letter to letter until I finally spelled out, 'Did you see 'Hello My Name is Doris.' ' "

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