A less than thrilling day spent trying to figure out what it is professors are looking for in a PhD application.
However, a few of the friends I had been missing the most contacted me and I was able to chat with them, which made me feel a great deal less lonely. One of them even called me on Skype, which was a strange experience - typing while they are talking makes a conversation rather lopsided, but I was glad to see them again even if I couldn't talk. I will probably be doing that with another friend this weekend as well.
Another involuntary attempt at speaking; I said 'hang on' while I was being handed a bowl. Some sound did emerge; not much, but enough that I felt a lot better about how well I was healing. Part of what I need to do is make a humming noise, and change its pitch. I tried this but upon going into a higher register (the part that was missing because of the cyst) there was a horrible pain, so I stopped. Hopefully it's just that I am still healing and since that was the part of my voice most affected, it's the part that will be the most painful.
I have developed my own sign language; signs for 'hungry', 'drink', 'painkiller', and 'think' are all I've got at the moment, but I seem to be steadily working on more.
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