Author: Landon Nayoan

By Landon Nayoan – As she went into a tracheostomy surgery, the doctor told her, “Say goodbye to your voice because your voice is probably going to be gone after this surgery.” Laurinda Bennett was staggered: “Gone?” “There’s a chance it may come back.” When she woke up from the surgery, she couldn’t speak. It was bleak, but at least she was surviving cancer. Laurinda spent 2½ weeks in ICU after her December 2025 surgery. Her voice was gone but she could walk. As she walked around the ICU, she realized all the other patients were bedridden and unconscious. She…