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Article: SNORING ISN'T FUNNY 'SAWING WOOD' MAY BE SIGN OF SLEEP APNEA
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- May 30, 1989
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Winston Churchill hissed, gasped and rumbled when he snored.
Mussolini kept his girlfriends awake.
And Teddy Roosevelt snored so loudly that when he was hospitalized all of the patients on his floor complained.
Snoring may not be the most serious medical problem you can have, but it can certainly be one of the most annoying - just ask any of the 35 million people - or one in eight - who suffer from the malady.
Doctors have a favorite joke: "Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore, and you sleep alone."
One woman in Silver Springs, Md., spent the night in jail after smacking her snoring husband in the head ...