the epiglottis is the cartilege flap seperating your throat and your nasal cavity…
Sue Duhnym knows about Deviated Septums, so I won’t go there…
It doesn’t retract any more! Like, if i look at it in the mirror, it just hangs there big and kinda swollen. much easier for my tonsils to play with it now… and me too, i can make it spin in circles and go back and forth like a clock. i don’t know about pruning shears, if i take it out, what are my tonsils gonna do all day?
they can always play the conga on your epiglottis, and inspect your molars…
You mean his earlobes?
Knock knock.
Who’s there?
Babs’ uvula.
Babs’ uvula who?
I don’t know Babs…But I do know this…
Palandine
LOL - it’s the same reference as aha’s line above.
“It’ll behoove ya to take care of your uvula.”
They’re from the same SNL skit. I think it was Chevy Chase and Lorraine Newman.
Your uvula is probably dislocated, it is a common injury among supermodels.
To fix it follow these steps:
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Stick your finger in your mouth until you make contact with your uvula.
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Push the uvula as far back as you can until you hear a tiny “snap”.
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Vomiting is a side effect in 64% of dislocated-uvula repairs (DUR). Therefore you may want to perform your DUR in the bathroom.
The most common cause of dislocated uvulas (at least among supermodels) is eating. Try to avoid that activity as much as possible.
I woke up this morning, and my uvula was missing.
It happens a lot - it’s detachable, you know.
Detachable uvula…
Detachable uvula…
uvu•la "yu-vye-le\ noun pl uvu•las or uvu•lae -'le, -'li\ [ME, fr. ML, dim. of L uva cluster of grapes, uvula; prob. akin to Gk oa service tree, OE iw yew — more at yew] (14c)
: the pendent fleshy lobe in the middle of the posterior border of the soft palate
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Wump, I’ll be willing to ensure your epiglottis is doing well
someone hand me a scope and a #4 miller, and we’ll get started…
Try gargling with salt water. It can’t hurt.
Unless it’s, like, rock salt or something.
Maybe if you just cut the tip off?
Wump,
I had this once, and the doc said it was a side effect of strep throat. Better get to a clinic and have a throat swab done asap - you don’t want to mess around with strep, which is a bacterial infection. The good thing is that antibiotics are effective against it, unlike the common cold.
It might be strep, or another infection. Also, it might be… err… wind chapped? Mine swells sometimes and hurts in the morning if I’ve slept with my mouth open (I have very restricted nasal cavities, so I often am a night mouth breather) Usually it gets better in a couple of hours in this case.
I just went to a clinic this morning. after sitting around for about an hour, the doctor took a look, and said it’s probably viral or somthing, did no swab or anything, and was out in 30 seconds… he said i should try some chloroseptic lozenges to sort of num it a bit…
but im already on antibiotics due to some sort of lung infection which is annoying as hell and makes me cough up heaps of phlegm. (upside: great range for spitting) but if it is bacterial or has somthing to do with strep the antibiotics im on should fix it.
Commander Fortune: Gargleing with salt water is already part of my routine, my mommy makes me do it
As for the supermodel solution, i already puke occasionally from coughing fits to get rid of the evil phlegm, and it definitly isn’t helping, so doing it on purpose is not really an option i’d like to try lol 
WTF?!? Okay, there’s been a few posts where I was obviously superdrunk, and most of those I don’t remember posting.
This post, I slightly remember, but I am sure I did not write it last night! I have no computer in my room, was pretty toasted by 2:00am, went right to bed shortly thereafter (that’s when the party ended last night- I’m sure of it), in fact come to think of it I smoked up a wee tad ensuring my bout of unconsciousness. The library and any other computer sources were closed, by 1.
What in hell’s deepest pisspits is going on? Could be somebody using my sign-in (I often forget to log out), but why do I remember writing about the philtrum? That’s a little nugget of fact I learned way back from random dictionary surfing (along with phosphenes) and which I get a little squirt of pride from bandying about.
WTF?
jb
d’oh
dammit, how my feeble brain is easily tricked by the midnight date switcheroo.
Wump, I hope your uvula is feeling better.
jb