#laryngoscope

[weneedtobagherdoctor]

[innerward]

[thefrogprinceofbellair]

A couple recent medical drawings

[noosphe-re]

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15314995/2018/128/1

[narangmedical]

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[azza1dlou]

"nobody sees, nobody knows,

We are a secret, can't be exposed"

[mustorganize]

Watch "Doctor recreates what COVID patients see in the moments before they die" on YouTube

Using all of your accessory muscles in an attempt to breathe after BiPAP and high flow oxygen begin failing while the sounds of drowning in your own fluids echo in the now crowded room.

Alarms sounding, nurses calling out numbers and a doctor calling for the intubation cart.

There's no time to call home and say "I love you" or "goodbye."

It was quick, unexpected. You seemed to be doing well enough.

Until you weren't.

Hopefully your last thoughts aren't "Oh my God, this is what happened to Mom. If only ..."

PLEASE WEAR THE MASK, KEEP YOUR DISTANCE AND WASH YOUR HANDS FREQUENTLY

[terpsichoreed]

TL;DR Hiatus Update and Voice

I’ve been severely discouraged and anxious about my voice and why I can’t sing. Today I had my laryngoscopy and there’s some good news: no surgery is needed. It’s not to the point of nodes yet. Yet. It will be if I continue doing what I am doing. So now I have to do eight weeks of voice therapy.

About the therapy (the TL;DR part): This will retrain my muscles, which is where the vocal power is coming from (though it is entirely the wrong technique, it is the one I grew up using and is the only way I know). I am a trained wind instrumentalist, not a vocal instrumentalist and I wrong to think that just because I could read music and have perfect pitch that I could easily transition to different type of instrument without proper training. Sarah was right in that my chest voice has been doing all the load bearing/heavy lifting and (in a metaphorical sense and kind of a serious way) has pulled itself. I do need to work on my falsetto range, yes, but at this time my safest bet is to keep quiet.

The laryngoscopy showed my vocal chords should be expanded as I sing/speak but they’re all small and it’s the muscle around them that is really doing most of the work, other than the actual pitch. The pitch is fine. The muscles are inflamed due to overuse, improper technique, seasonal allergies/drainage irritating them, and recently having a sinus infection.

Doctor seems to think it’s also due to my spinal fusion and anxiety and how I carry myself/posture. She says all my muscles everywhere are tense (due to anxiety) and my neck muscles (due to spinal fusion) respond differently, even to something as simple as the headrest in the chair. So that’s something I can try to fix. They’ve sent me to Ann Arbor for vocal therapy sessions, an hour each week. Ann Arbor is where I’m going for the Scientist March tomorrow and is where I had my spinal fusion surgery almost 11 years ago. It’s a place I hold near to my heart, though it’s physically as near as an hour’s drive.