About throat: My husband had to have his left carotid artery on his neck cleaned out. During surgery, a nick was made on that left vocal cord and he had no voice. Time was allowed to see if he regained voice and he did not. At the end of two months without voice, we were sent to a foremost vocal cord specialist in Houston. He is the chosen vocal doctor for opera singers all over the world. Opera plays in his offices as background music.
He told me the worst thing for your throat is water and if you are having trouble with your throat due to a cold or whatever, always add something to water, could be tea or drink coffee, chocolate drink, Kool-Aid, put honey in it, anything but just water.
That first visit, he made a temporary fix for husband by putting a certain substance on the bad cord so it would meet the other vocal cord. The bad cord was never going to get better, would never move. In a couple of weeks, we checked husband into a Houston hospital on same street where voice doctor is, and an operation was done to permanently seal something to the bad cord so it would meet the other cord.
If you ever have carotid neck surgery on either side to clear that artery, you risk permanently losing a vocal cord. The neck surgery had to be done as his artery was plugged 95% and they feared he would have a stroke before they got the surgery done. His eyesight on his left eye was also going away due to not enough blood getting to his eye due to that clogged artery. His eyesight was fine after the surgery.
That’s interesting. My sister had to have her carotid artery cleaned out. She had the most renowned surgeon for this and heart valve repair in our area. No problems, and it did seem to help her too.
Interesting about the eyesight. I have been having headaches and some vision issues, and had speculated that it might be carotid arteries, but that hasn’t been checked yet.