At the follow up Dr Kim put the endoscope up my nose again. It was less painful than last time because I knew what to expect.
Dr Kim asked if I'd had any pain and I said "no". He said everything had healed well. It looked different from last week. The wedge of tissue I mention in my last post
is actually my right vocal cord. It's just that it was a very swollen/distorted immediately after surgery. He got me to make a high pitched "heee" sound. It felt odd but at least I realised that despite my worries I'd not spoken since surgery. A very girly 'heee' sound come out and I couldn't stop myself grinning.
Dr Kim said "You have good closure of your vocal folds during phonation".
He said you can still see the blue coloured sutures. It was hard to tell because the sutured area is so small. Had to wait 20 minutes before Botox.
Went to a sterile treatment room next to the OR. I had to put special shoes on. It was very quick and almost painless.
"This won't hurt" Dr Kim said. I Felt a slight injection sensation. An electromyograph device was attached to the needle to guide it in. All took about 2 mins.
It looked about a million times scarier than it was.
Unfortunately, because I'd got so bothered about the Botox, I was half way through the voice program before I realised I had no idea what was being said.
They only give you 5-10 minutes to explain it and not having had any formal singing training I didn't understand any of it. It all felt very rushed. I just assumed it'd be the
same as the video on the internet, but when I checked later it was different stuff. Also they gave me a piece of paper which didn't seem to have much connection with either the online video or what was said. I remember she said something about 3 and 5 note scales, project from front of mouth, "ng-ah" exercises, glides.
So it's lost forever.
