Currently, there are a couple of well-known 'Sleep Apnoeacs' in the news.
Ed Milliband resorted to surgery for treatment for his Sleep Apnoea: Big mistake! The latest reports (from the Beeb) suggest the op. was not a success. Ed had, and I suppose, still has, a deviated septum, causing his OSA. There have been a number of cruel aspertions cast in Ed's direction, mostly saying he has had the operation to make his voice sound more assertive and confident. But to submit to surgery, if that is the sole purpose is really a step too far, don't you think?
Whatever your political views, Ed Milliband has picked up a poisoned chalice in assuming the Labour Party leadership. Whatever he proposes, he's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't: he finds himself in an impossible position, as the art-mistress said to the gym-instructor. He sets about curing his Sleep Apnoea, and it hasn't worked.
Surgery, in my opinion, should be the very last resort in treating Sleep Apnoea, but I feel sure other members here will disagree with that. It's irreversible, it cannot be undone, which means if it hasn't done the trick, you can't go back to the drawing-board and try again.
And the other Sleep Apnoeac? None other than Mike Tindall, Captain of the England Rugby Team, now husband of the redoubtable Zara Phillips and son-in-law of the Princess Royal. As if that were not enough, he, too, has a deviated septum, in fact, if his photograph on the cover of this month's Readers Digest is anything to go by, it's more like a doubled-over septum!