My Voice

While my voice has made improvements by leaps and bounds the past few weeks, I'd say it is still only at about 25% of normal. At least people can hear me on the phone, but my voice does get weaker throughout the day the more I talk. I do pretty good one-on-one, but if I'm anywhere where there is background noise I'm screwed because I can't increase my volume. I'm at that weird place where new people I meet just assume I have a cold or laryngitis, so they are constantly asking, "What's wrong with your voice?" I don't want to tell them I had cancer and them feel bad, so I just tell them I lost my voice or that I had thyroid surgery and hope they drop it. It's just so frustrating not being able to be heard (especially for me, who never had that issue in my life). I get so tired of people saying "Huh?", "What did you say", "Repeat that", and "Can you speak up." But, I think what I miss most is laughing out loud. You don't realize just how good that feels until you aren't able to do it. I'm trying to stay optimistic though that my voice will come back in full force someday soon.