Sir Andrew owes her a lot. Surgery isn’t always the best
way forward. Rest and taking some gentle music tuition is.

The vocal chords here have obviously been overworked and
may have a nodule or polyp which will disappear naturally
without surgery, if allowed.

Sudden atrophy or ruptures are also curable with rest and
treating yourself right. Connie should not have surgery
in actual fact the only surgery that should ever be
undertaken is the removal of threatening malignant growths.

I have said this before but singing in a belt range is
damaging of the voice as it overblows the voice out and the
singer loses the ability to sing softly on the soft edge.
the upper voice can become kinetic and disjounted sometimes
with high notes difficult to reach and a break in the
bottom passagio for a female. All in all a very worrying
scenario and one which lowers confidence and self esteme.

If surgery is done to rectify the situation the singing
voice as an instrument has been thus maligned and may never
be the same again. Learning to sing from scratch with
compensatory techniques to protect the altered vocal chords
is not a guarantee that all will be well. Far better to
rest them, get a specialist singng teacher not a vocal
coach or guru, one which will take the singer back to her
natural vocal fach and the exercise of the cuperto function.

Hope all works out for Connie. She did have a lovely voice.

If all else fails and surgery goes ahead and no voice looks
like returning will Connie be able to claim for loss of
earnings from ALW for her future career?

If Connie were to log on now, my advice would be not to
have surgery.

Maureen
Newcastle.