My high range is already working for the first time in at least 10 years and I have a little voice coming back. I have had 2 mornings of thick mucus pooled up around the pyriform sinus that usually just runs into the lungs so it's working so far.

The irony is I have chased this with my Otolaryngologist since February 2013 and because it was firing every now and then, he felt it wasn't a problem, even reviewing videos over and over with me. During my swallow therapy last summer, we used blue dye and a laryngoscope and I could visually see what was happening as the left vocal cord stayed open and blue dye penetrated the larynx. The SLP referred me to the best vocal cord specialist in the area who is a colleague of my Otolaryngologist. He seemed a little surprised to see me in the hall coming out of my appointment next to his office. The voice specialist took less than a minute scoping me and seeing the vocal cord was paralyzed. The entire face to face time was less than 10 minutes.

SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0
Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation
Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03
Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08.
Cervical Spinal Stenosis 01/11
Cervical Myelitis 09/12
Thoracic Paraplegia 10/12
Dysautonomia 11/12
Hospice care 09/12-01/13.
COPD 01/14
Intermittent CHF 6/15
Feeding tube NPO 03/16
VFI 12/2016
ORN 12/2017
Cardiac Event 06/2018
Bilateral VFI 01/2021
Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022
Bilateral VFI 05/2022
Total Laryngectomy 01/2023