Post #3

      Waking up in the hospital without a sense of that thing in the back of your mouth might seem a bit odd. That THING was my cousins uvula. On the other hand he was a bit lucky for the removal on some parts.
       My cousin got this removed because he had terrible breathing and sleeping problems. The breathing caused him to not pronounce words correctly and take on extra breaths through the nose. Sleeping on the other hand as you may imagine was very difficult for him, he would snore loudly and sometimes he wouldn't be able to sleep at all. To get him to sleep at times he had to gargle salt water to ease the swelling of the uvula. I remember one of the nights that we had a family party at my aunts house we were all playing I was about 7 and my cousin was 6, well anyways the common side effect of dehydration, was the swelling of the uvula. Since we were playing so care-free and with no breaks, my cousin went into panic mode and felt as if he couldn't breath, we all knew he didn't have asthma and since we knew or the adults knew at that time about his uvula, they called for an ambulance to come pick him up and take him to the emergency room. I even wanted to go for the thrill. So we arrived at the ER and my cousins was given an inhaler and it help out a little bit but still had trouble breathing they checked out his throat and his uvula was larger than normal.
      As soon as they saw this they put him to sleep and did their work and removed it. I remember when he woke up and was really confused about what was going on and we told him and he was still confused but it was all ok. From that day for about 4 days he had to eat everything smoothied and cold. Ice cream was his big deal he loved it. Now that that happens he still snores but not as much as I remember.