Who Are You If You Don't Sound Like You? (Losing My Voice to Spasmodic Dysphonia) - Eileen Meehan
What do you do when the voice you’ve used your entire life to teach, sing, and communicate suddenly stops working?
Eileen Meehan was a passionate special education teacher and a lifelong choir singer. Her voice was her livelihood, her spiritual expression, and a core pillar of her identity. But then she began to struggle to speak. Eventually diagnosed with Spasmodic Dysphonia—a rare, incurable neurological movement disorder of the vocal cords—Eileen found herself completely stripped of the voice she once knew.
In this episode of FailCraft, Eileen joins Ezekiel to discuss the profound identity…
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