A woman is able to speak again after she had a rare operation to replace her voice box, she is only the second person in the world to have a successful larynx transplant. Jensen damaged her vocal cords more than a decade ago after she repeatedly pulled out her breathing tube while under sedation in the hospital. The operation last fall lasted 18 hours over two days. Doctors replaced her voice box, windpipe and thyroid gland with that of a donor who died in an accident.
I am glad that technology has advanced so much that a woman is able to recieve a new voice box from another person. Before, this woman would have had to suffer through life never being able to speak again. Now, she can speak full sentences and is relearning how to properly talk again. Although, if she had never pulled out her breathing tube during her stay at the hospital, she never would have damaged her voicebox. I'm not sure that she knew what she was doing though. I'm not sure why someone would pull out a breathing tube while they were knocked out. You would think that the doctors who were watching over her would make sure that she wouldn't pull out her breathing tube after she did it the first time.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41179634
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