Recovery update

It’s now been around 4 weeks since my voice surgery & tracheal shave so a slight update on the issue.

So far everything seems to be healing quite nicely although there was something like stitches poking out of my neck. The type of stitches that will melt when inside the skin. However, for some reason some end was poking out and not exactly healing too well. So I had to get that fixed.

The scar from the tracheal shave is not that big and will probably eventually become unnoticeable. However, there is still a slight bump where the adam’s apple used to be so it wasn’t possible to remove it completely. The result is fine enough though and people won’t figure it out unless they’re told about it.

The voice is still quiet and hoarse but according to my voice therapist, who I met yesterday, it may take several months for the vocal folds to heal completely and for the hoarseness to go away (similiar to recovering from diseases that take away the voice). I can speak quite well in quiet indoors but not too well in moving cars, phone or when out. Also I can’t and shouldn’t make too loud noises yet. We’ll see whether the voice will heal enough before my classes start next fall as I was hoping on finishing some missing language studies. As it is currently, I can’t really even hope of speaking in a classroom.

But then to the actual voice… I’m very happy on how it sounds when it’s not hoarse. It’s so much more relaxed and people have also been commenting on that. So I guess if only the hoarseness will go away and I’ll be able to speak loudly again the result will be perfect… something I could’ve never achieved with just training… well it already is much better.

Surgery, however, is not something that could be used to skip training. I still speak using the same muscles as I did before with training. Now, however, I have to do much more work when trying to make a low sounding voice so basically it feels normal to speak with higher pitched voice now. Had I not practiced before, the result may have been worse though.

So in overall, I’m doing very nicely currently Will probably be posting more daily outfits as soon as I get some time to find a place to take the photos outside. It’s so warm already and the forecast promised 26 C for today. yay!