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Jeannie Mai was 'gasping for air' before emergency surgery

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Jeannie Mai was "gasping for air" before undergoing emergency surgery. The 41-year-old TV star was struggling to breathe before having throat surgery after being diagnosed with epiglottitis, which can cause swelling and block airflow to the lungs.

Jeannie - who withdrew from 'Dancing with the Stars' to have surgery - shared: "What I was dancing with was a numb neck because I couldn't feel anything when it was really closing up. "My throat was 60 percent closed.

It was numb, but it was closed. After I went home, I wrote a letter to [my fiance] Jeezy and said, 'Hey, I'm going to go to bed at like 9:30.

I feel terrible. Please pray for me because I think that if I don't make it through this I don't know if I'm going to make it through camera.

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