I am currently watching the Superbowl episode of This Is Us.
Or rather, I am trying to watch it with blurry misty teary eyes...
Amazing show all around. Gotta be in my top 5, likely second only to Game of Thrones.
But here is the issue...
Strong emotional responses trigger HAE swelling episodes. I just had a major one recently, which makes me more susceptible to triggering a second episode - kind of like if you have a bacterial infection and don't finish your course of antibiotics and then the infection comes back or regains its strength and is even worse.
So I have to be pretty careful about my throat right now... like avoiding things like yelling or singing too much... as well as trying to keep my emotions very level. (Which makes it a good thing that my Seahawks were not IN the Superbowl today).
But now that I am bawling my brains out watching This Is Us, I have to be EXTREMELY careful with how emotionally invested I get into the show. Crying in bursts of trembles and pulling uncontrollable ugly crying faces is not a good idea... but the show is sooooooooo good.