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Article: LOCAL CENTERS GIVE VOICE TO SILENCED VOCAL CORDS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 30, 2002
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It was a lovely summer evening, the kind of benign, time-stopping
moment when a person just needs to sing. I opened my mouth - and
nothing came out.
Or at least nothing remotely resembling what a singer is supposed
to sound like.
Like millions of other Americans, I had something clearly, and
stubbornly, wrong with my vocal cords. I had been hoarse for several
weeks, following one bout of bronchitis and another of reflux, a
condition in which acid from the stomach backs up into the throat,
causing inflammation.
But geography was on my side.
There are only a few American cities blessed with state-of-the-
art centers for the diagnosis and treatment of voice disorders, but
Boston is one of them. ...