A brave Scots lost her voice box and her food pipe after persistent ear and throat pain turned out to be cancer
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Julie said: "I noticed something around June last year, I had pain in my ears and throat and went to doctors who said it was an infection so was given antibiotics but it didn’t clear. I kept going back so they referred me to ENT at the Lauriston building. The mum-of-three who also has three grandkids has a close-knit family and support system in place that helped her digest the shocking news.
"After surgery, it was a peg tube from my stomach until I was able to eat soft foods. I’ve only recently had this removed and still have a dressing covering the hole." She continued: "I have a speech valve which is a device which allows me to speak using air from my lungs back up through the valve and this allows me to produce sound. I have to press the valve to open the flap inside using a breath which creates the sounds.
"As for eating I can drink as normal and can eat normally to an extent but now need to be careful with the textures of food and advised to eat softer foods, to chew smaller bites and to drink after mouthfuls to allow food to pass through the new food tube that was constructed."
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