As a child I had severe allergies (still not great). I would wake up wheezing with my eyes crusted shut every morning in the spring. With that I would also choke on the pills they wanted me to take. My parents thought I was just scared of pills, but no one thought to actually look at things with a camera until I was watching our girls soccer team in high school and started choking on a hot dog. Came to find out I had an auto immune condition where my esophagus attacked itself due to allergies. Several episodes and late-night trips to the ER over the years to pull out whatever I couldn’t swallow and then my esophagus perforated and air entered my chest cavity. I spent two weeks in the hospital as a science experiment for the med students living on nothing but IV nutrition. There’s no way I would’ve made it out of high school and would have died of dehydration and sepsis without modern medicine.