Today was a hard day for Mommy. You know that she loves to talk (you and her “talk” all the time); what you might not know is that she also loves to sing. You don’t know this because sometime around 4 months before you were born, she got a viral infection that damaged the nerves around her vocal chords; the nerves regrew, but not the way they should have. That is why Mommy sounds like most people do when they have a cold and why she doesn’t sing to you.

The doctor today did a special test on Mommy’s vocal chords to see which nerves are not right and told Mommy that there is nothing they can really do. This means that Mommy will start going to a speech therapist so that someday, with a lot of work, she will be able to lecture and talk at a normal pitch, and maybe…just maybe…really sing again.