｡?fter the operation
1) You will be encouraged if you have skilled esophageal speakers visit you soon after the operation too. Even if you are fully prepared before the operation for whatever may follow, you will be quite depressed mentally when you face it. But the high-spirited predecessors' words of encouragement will raise in your mind hope and self-confidence instead of despair and despondency, and you will make a firm resolution to talk again.
2) A certain laryngectomee told me that he had read special works on esophageal speech in his sick bed and had had the firm faith that he would surely succeed in speaking, and that once he had begun practice he had mastered the speech in two weeks.
