Sarah Silverman: "I am insanely lucky to be alive"

Sarah Silverman revealed that she almost died at the hospital last week. 'I am insanely lucky to be alive'' she wrote on facebook The comedian explained that she spent the last week in the ICU trying to recover from a very rare and life-threatening illness "Don't even know why I went to the doctor, it was just a sore throat But I had a freak case of epiglottitis" Sarah told her fans In the facebook statement, she thanked the doctors and all the staff at Cedars, her boyfriend, Michael Sheen, and friends. And of course, she ended with a funny story to make it a true Silverman story.