We are still in shock after hearing that Sarah Silverman Almost DIED over the weekend after she landed in the ICU knocking on death’s door!?!

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CelebNHealth247.com has this report after Sarah Silverman took to Facebook to announce that she had a scary brush with death that landed her in the intensive care unit!

The comedienne posted about the experience Wednesday on Facebook where she explains that she was “insanely lucky to be alive.”

Sarah Silverman says she doesn’t “even know why I went to the doctor, it was just a sore throat.” Instead she found out that she “had a freak case of epiglottis.” In case you are not sure what epiglottis is, we have the details here:

Epiglottis is a life-threatening illness that occurs when a small cartilage that covers your windpipe swells, blocking the flow of air into the lungs, according to the Mayo Clinic.

After being in the hospital for 5 days, Sarah said:

“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.”

Sarah Silverman thanked her doctors and “every technician & orderly” at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. She detailed how she couldn’t be put to sleep during the recovery process. She revealed that her “blood pressure was too low.”

And get this, Sarah, 45, hands also had to be restrained so she wouldn’t pull out her breathing tube. Silverman also revealed that she was nursed back to health by her boyfriend, Michael Sheen. She adds that her “amazing Sissies (blood & otherwise) & friendos, who all coordinated so that there wasn’t a moment I was alone.”

Here is the FULL statement from Sarah Silverman via Facebook:

Sarah writes:

“Hi. This is me telling everyone in my life at once why I haven’t been around. This will not interest everyone so feel free to disregard.

I was in the ICU all of last week and I am insanely lucky to be alive. Don’t even know why I went to the doctor, it was just a sore throat. But I had a freak case of epiglottis.

I owe my life to Dr. Shawn Nasseri, Dr. Robert Naruse, Dr. Rob Huizenga, every nurse, and every technician & orderly at Cedars whose punch-the-clock jobs happen to save human lives on the regular.

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?”

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?”

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.

Sarah Silverman further explains:

I’m so moved by my real-life hero, Michael, and amazing Sissies (blood & otherwise) & friendos, who all coordinated so that there wasn’t a moment I was alone. It makes me cry. Which hurts my throat. So stop.
Anyway there are some funny stories too.

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.’”

I love you all. Your friend,
Sarah

We are so happy to hear that Sara Silverman is healthy and back at home. Stay strong Sarah.