I have no voice.
Noooo...
I'm not talking figuratively about
nobody listening to what I have to say.
(Although, at my house that tends to be true.)
I mean I literally lost my voice.
I cannot talk.
I cannot sing (heavy sigh).
I cannot answer the phone.
I cannot yell at talk to my children.
I have laryngitis.
lar-yn-gi-tis [lar-uhn-jahy-tis]
noun/ inflamation of the larynx,
often with accompanying sore throat,
hoarseness or loss of voice,
and dry cough.
Yep.
That's me.
Inflamed, sore, hoarse, and coughing.
Oh, and did I mention...
I can't talk either.
I'm on day 6 of this now
and it really stinks!
In fact it bites the Big One!
But at least I have my fingers
so I can still have a 'voice' in the blogsphere!
I can't talk to my actual family,
but I can talk to my blogging family.
So thank you all for being out there to 'listen'!
Anyhoo...
I've been doing a lot of whispering.
Since I can't talk and all.
(Did I mention that already?)
Unfortunately
I've heard that whispering is
just as straining on the vocal chords
as actually talking.
So I've been trying to not talk
Or whisper.
Nothing.
Do you know how hard that is?
Especially with kids?
Pretty much darn near impossible!!
Especially with MY kids!
Let's see.
I have a 10-yr-old boy who dawdles.
Did you know you can 'whisper yell'?
It's true.
I've tested it out.
I had my doubts that a
whispered yell could be effective.
But it actually induced tears.
I was overjoyed shocked.
Oh...
And my 13-yr-old daughter
is very perturbed distraught
by the fact that her mother
can't talk to her.
It's terribly inconvenient for
her to have to wait
for notes to be written.
It's unfair to expect her
to get off the couch
in the TV room
and walk a few feet.
To the front room.
To get an answer
to the question
she yelled at me.
Not to mention the fact
that when I write a note to
someone other than herself,
'Miss Nosey' doesn't know
what I said to them.
She says it's like we're keeping secrets.
From her.
Like the secret of asking my son
if he had baseball practice today.
We are so cruel
keeping that secret from her.
Aren't we?
So...
I'm not making
a very fast recovery
in the vocal department
it seems.
I'm gonna have to get more serious
about this silence thing
if I ever want to
Talk.
Sing.
Answer the phone.
Ask my family what healthy meal
they'd like me to make.
Ever.
Again.
Therefore I've decided to
post a sign on the back of my laptop
for my family.
(Don't scroll down yet... wait for the reveal!)
So they will know that I am
no longer talking and will only
communicate with them through
the written word.
(Just like I'm doing with you all!)
And it looks like this:
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