Pub Manager Loses Voice for Eight Months After Getting Cold at Work – World News

One woman said that she was terrified of never speaking again after a cold that made her lose her voice for more than eight months.

Kaitlyn Grace of Queensland, Australia, was forced to whisper or use hand gestures to communicate with friends and family after the failure of her voice.

Her symptoms began when she became ill from a cold while she was working as a director for a bustling Irish pub in May 2016, before turning into a serious case of laryngitis.

Originally treating as a joke, Kaitlyn said that she would become more worried when her voice would not come back after two months.

The 28-year-old said the reality of working in a noisy bar job without her voice had become too much to bear.

"I was trying so hard to understand what I meant and I knew people could not hear it, so it was not their fault, but I was just getting frustrated." Grace told Yahoo News.

"I remember crying in front of my mother saying that I would never find my voice and that I would never be like before. It was a bit difficult.

The doctors initially refused to send Ms. Grace to a specialist despite worrying symptoms, including one who told her that she was suffering from reflux laryngitis.

Three months later, however, she was referred to a highly anticipated referral and was placed on a waiting list to see an emergency physician.

After another long wait of two months, Kaitlyn was finally diagnosed with paralysis of the left vocal nerve, which resulted from laryngitis.

Kaitlyn was forced to undergo a "super-intimidating" treatment that was injected into her throat a substance resembling collagen to strengthen her vocal cords.

The procedure was immediately successful and Kaitlyn was moved when she heard her voice for the first time in eight months.

"I just burst out crying. It was so instantaneous. Then with each new injection, my voice became clearer and clearer. It was really cool. "

The injections and the help of the specialist helped to "save" her voice, she said.

Although she has paid $ 6,000 (£ 3,200) for her treatment, Kaitlyn was told that she might need a reconstructive surgery because of the severity of the nerve damage that is occurring. She would have suffered at the throat.

She hopes the nerve damage may have healed by herself – but says that she will now listen better to her body after the damage caused by the initially innocuous cold.

"I know now that I need to listen to my body very early, because I caught the cold and continued working all the time, so I do not know if I did more damage doing that," she said.

"Looking back, I would like to take four or five days off and not go back to work," she says.