"The toughest time in my life was in 2003. I had gone to the doctor for acid reflux, but he thought something else might be going on, so he scoped me and it turned out I had throat cancer. I was on the operating table for over 12 hours, and they took out my vocal chords, larynx, everything. They got all the cancer though, and I didn't need chemo or radiation. Of course I couldn't talk for a long time, so I wrote notes to communicate. Then when I healed, I got a voice box prosthesis with a microphone and speaker. The doctors have said I'm the poster child for being able to speak well after that kind of surgery, that I've done better than anyone they've ever seen. It was traumatic, but I had to decide to accept it and keep going. I wasn't going to give up and die."
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