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["Kathy Evans" <evansdk@earthlink.net>]

Diane Rehm has spasmodic dysphonia, in which her vocal chords constrict 
uncontrollably. It happens to people who use their voices a lot, such as 
teachers, and may have other causes. My high school English teacher aunt is 
on disability from it, starting around age 50. Diane Rehm has to get botox 
injections every couple of months--the botox paralyzes the vocal chords. 
After an injection, she can't speak at all for a couple of weeks, but after 
that, her vocal chords are relaxed enough to allow speech. I have come to 
love her, because she speaks slowly enough for me to ponder the conversation. 
So her botox relaxes me too. She wrote a memoir, haven't read it, called 
Finding My Voice.

Kathy Evans
evansdk@earthlink.net