#laryngitis

[astridellejo]

For the last three years I've gotten seasonal laryngitis nearly every spring and autumn when the temperature changes. Last year when my voice cut out in the spring, I decided to start learning ASL by watching videos on YouTube. This year I discovered my local community college has ASL classes. So I signed up.

I got my normal seasonal laryngitis in mid-September a couple weeks before classes started, but it was taking a lot longer than usual for my voice to recover. Like a lot longer. I had a scratchy raw voice for six weeks. Then in November I got Covid for the first time and it has completely demolished what remained of my voice. I haven't been able to speak above a whisper for ten weeks now. So it's a good thing that I've started learning ASL in a classroom setting, because I think I'm gonna have to know it moving forward.

In theory I have a referral from my doctor to see a specialist. But who knows when that will happen. I may already have permanent damage to my voice. I guess that's a bummer, but I honestly don't mind too much because it turns out I really fucking love sign language. It's like dancing, or casting a spell, or both. I wish I had learned it thirty years ago. Maybe then I wouldn't feel like a flailing child trying to use it in public now.

[Text in comic reads: My voice died again. It happens sometimes. So I decided to do something for the next time it goes out.]

[gleecontext]

GLEE S01E18 Laryngitis

[gleetournaments]

The Ultimate Episode Tournament: Round 3 Match 2

[scooge]

I haven't spoken a single word today

[nerdyautumnlover]

I think the worst part of having laryngitis isn’t talking, because I don’t really talk much anyways unless it’s a friend or acquaintance, but it’s not being able to sing. I don’t think I’m a great singer but I like singing. Singing the random songs at the grocery store while I work or just in general. Can’t sing with laryngitis and a scratchy throat and I fucking hate it 🤬

[sickficideas]

akutagawa with a chest cold is so simple but so effective because of his lung disease...his voice being hoarse/scratchy from being sick on top of his cough 💔 he tries to whisper because he doesn't want to trigger his cough but most of the time it's pointless. when he's ill he has absolutely zero appetite and won't eat, and sometimes being ill will make his cough so bad that he throws up as a result, which of course only makes things worse because the stomach acid burns his throat, and that hurts more than normal with no actual food in his tummy to bring up...he'll cough in his sleep too 💔 his voice is practically gone for several days after being sick with a cold of any kind/anything that worsens his cough

[tildeathiwillwrite]

Merry Whumpmas 2023 Day 16: Laryngitis

Edit: I fucked up and mislabeled the title as 'whining' at first for some reason, I blame the fact that I was distracted watching tLotR as I was writing/posting this

TW: coughing, sore throat

An intense, itching, raw sensation in their throat woke Whumpee. They gasped, coughing violently, each cough seemingly louder than the last. Finally, the fit ceased, and Whumpee breathed slowly, calming their racing heart. For a moment, they’d thought they were dying. 

They swallowed and almost gagged. It was as if their throat had been scrubbed with sandpaper. Water. Water and a cough drop—that would make it more bearable.

Whumpee crawled out of bed and wrapped themselves in one of their blankets before stumbling through the house to the bathroom, afraid to turn on a light for fear of disturbing Caretaker. Once behind the safety of the bathroom door, they clicked on the light and paused, blinking rapidly, waiting for their eyes to adjust.

The water from the tap was cool but did nothing to soothe their sore throat. Whumpee clumsily rummaged through the medicine cabinet, trying to find the blue and white bag full of the minty cough drops Caretaker always got. Where were they? They could’ve sworn the cough drops were kept in there—

Someone rapped on the door. “Whumpee?” Caretaker asked softly, “are you in there? I heard coughing…”

Whumpee opened their mouth to respond, but all that came out was a dry croaking sound. Startled, they touched a hand to their throat and tried again. Same result. Crossing the bathroom, they opened the door and gestured from their throat to the medicine cabinet.

Caretaker squinted at them. “Is everything all right?”

Whumpee shook their head and tried to say no but only managed an “...o….”

“Okay…” Caretaker said hesitantly, “Do you need help?”

Whumpee nodded, pointed to the medicine cabinet again, and back to their throat. Caretaker’s eyes widened. “Oh! You need a cough drop! I’m so sorry, I took them out when I was sick and forgot to put them back. I’ll go get them.”

They turned and moved back towards the bedroom. Whumpee glared after them, more than a little frustrated. When Caretaker returned, they apologized again. “Sorry, sorry, here you go.”

Whumpee took the proffered back of cough drops, unwrapped one, and shoved it into their mouth, sucking on it sullenly.

A few seconds of silence passed between them. Finally, Caretaker spoke. “Is it really so bad you can’t speak?”

Whumpee nodded and shrugged.

“Hmm,” Caretaker leaned out the bathroom door to check the nearest clock. “It’s almost three in the morning, you think you can hold out a couple more hours so I can get you a doctor’s appointment, or should we go to the urgent care right away?”

Whumpee thought about it for almost a minute before finally shrugging.

Caretaker rolled their eyes. “Real helpful.”

Whumpee just pointed at their throat.

“Whatever,” Caretaker muttered, turning on their heel, “I’m going back to bed.”

Whumpee took a few more sips of water before turning off the bathroom light and stumbling down the hall after them. They’ll figure it out in the morning, whatever ‘it’ was.

[universitypenguin]

Update on my strep throat: I have no voice. None at all. Basically, I’m Ariel at this moment in the little mermaid:

[sassysophiabush]

[yuzurins]

hey i lost my voice doing absolutely nothing but breathe

[gleecontext]

GLEE S01E18 Laryngitis

[gleetournaments]

The Ultimate Episode Tournament: Round 1 Match 4

[formaliz]

Hey! What word should I use to describe speech difficulties caused by physical reasons (severe asthma/laryngitis/fibermalgyia/throat got stabbed/etc)? Should I use speech impaired or something else?

[potter-solomons]

I feel like absolute death.

C'mere Alfie.

[nightfallen-system]

We hate being sick like this. We have Laryngitis which is horrible. It makes it hard to sleep, the coughing and constant clearing of the throat hurts like hell, swallowing hurts and we have no more cough drops. This is hell...

-Sombra👾

[bowtiesnmusicals]

Here is my recap of the So Much We Didn’t See (Laryngitis) episode of the podcast.

This episode on May 11 2010.

They had to really rack their brains to remember what happened in the real world the week the episode aired.

They were about to start their first tour.

They were in Phoenix Arizona. It was hot as hell.

It was Kevin’s first time in two gay bars. Jenna went to one of them.

Zach Woodlee and Kevin got invited to a back room at one of them and got to try expensive Tequila. Kevin thought it tasted like lighter fluid.

At one of the clubs it was announced that the cast of glee was there. They ran out of there so quickly. It was Kevin, Chris, Telly, and Megan. Kevin said where’s Chris, get Chris out of here.

Kevin was not closeted to the cast that played the kids. By the time they out to LA Jane Lynch came up to Kevin and said I heard you are a little gay boy. Kevin turned bright red. He didn’t want anyone else to know.

For this tour Phoenix was where they were working out what the show was going to be because there was debate if they would be in character the whole time. During the first show there wasn’t a lot of consistency. Sometimes they would refer to each other by their real names and others by their characters names. Kevin was in his chair the whole time so he was basically always Artie. They didn’t quite know what they were doing yet.

The people running the tour thought it would be like One Direction and everyone would go crazy. They would get respectful applause between numbers and then after the show everyone went crazy. The demographics were way off from what the tour promoters thought it would be because it wasn’t just teens. It was teens, younger children up through grandparents. People reacted like they were watching a theatre show and not a concert. They had to have a meeting to dissect what was going on. They figured out that because they were doing so many skits that it felt more like a theatre show. They added more bits of crowd participation to make it feel more like a concert.

Kevin took it very personally.

It was a new format for a tv show to go on tour. The only thing they had to go off before this was High School Musical which was a different demographic.

May 11 is Cory’s birthday and Jenna’s dad’s birthday. Her mom’s birthday is the same as Lea. Kevin’s mom has the same birthday as Ryan.

The tour was a hit after they figured things out. It’s as an experiment. They filmed at Radio City and we never saw it. Kevin said they have to text Ryan to see if he still has it.

The Fox execs fessed up that it was sort of like a pilot program. If it did well then they would do an even bigger tour the next year.

The #1 song was Nothin’ On You by B.o.B featuring Bruno Mars.

The #1 movie was Iron Man 2 with their future friend Gwyneth Paltrow.

On this day in 2009 the Glee cast attended their season 1 premiere screening event at Santa Monica High School.

Within a year they were selling out Radio City Music Hall in New York.

Kevin said the first tour was fun.

A restaurant was rented out for the cast and crew the day after the Radio City show. They went buck wild dancing on tables.

This episode was special for many reason.

Naya is progressively singing more and more and more in the back 9 episodes of the season. The creative team was starting to recognize how damn good she was at everything.

This episode is a perfect example of what Ryan said about it was so special that they got to spend so much time between scenes and he got to know them. This episode is a product of that. They also had time to bond with one of the directors, Alfonso.

Alfonso has also done a lot of directing for American Horror Story.

Kevin can do a great Alfonso impression. It’s the only one he can do. Well he can do Ryan too.

Zack Weinstein was a very special guest star.

Mike O’Malley and Ashley Fink are also in this episode.

Unfortunately there is no Jessalyn or Jayma in this episode.

The songs in this episode are Jesse’s Girl, Lady Is A Tramp (Kevin didn’t know this was from a Broadway show. He thought it was like a Frank Sinatra song. Jenna said that is fair because they did make it sound like a Frank Sinatra song or cover), The Boy Is Mine, Rose’s Turn, and One (The cover with Mary J. Bilge. Kevin was sad he didn’t get to sing on this song).

Rachel gets laryngitis, Kurt changes his persona to try to impress his dad, and Puck tries to regain his social status by dating Mercedes after shaving his mohawk. Mark was sick of it by this point. It made him super easy to spot out in the real world.

On the waste management sign on the trash can Puck gets thrown into there is a misspelling.

Puck tries to go after Mercedes and says many many offensive things. On the flip side Mark go to be very funny in this episode. It was something we didn’t get to see a lot of and Jenna said he was very funny.

Quinn gives Mercedes a heads up about being more worried about Santana going after Mercedes for going after her man.

Kevin said you need to go watch some bootlegs of the tour especially The Boy Is Mine.

Somehow when they were sitting around between takes they would have their directors/cast chairs in a circle in the middle of the soundstage. At some point Naya started doing a Monica impression which involved a lot of neck movement, neck bobbing, and hair moving. It was an incredible spot on impression. This probably happening during Madonna. Ryan would just appear out of nowhere and ask what they were laughing at and they would tell Naya to do the impression. Kevin said it felt like a coup and they tricked Ryan into doing something they wanted to do. You just have to make Ryan think it’s his idea.

After Naya recorded it she said Adam wouldn’t let her do the full impression. She definitely got a lot of it in there though.

There is a shot where Naya is at the piano and when she leaves she does this neck thing and that was part of the impression she would do for the cast.

Kevin discovered when he was looking this episode up he found that Naya does the full Monica impression on the tour.

Needless to say they were so excited to get to do The Boy Is Mine.

Puck at some point when trying to woo Mercedes says Blacks and Jews have a history of sticking up for each other. Wikipedia says King Martin Luther loved the Jews. He also mentions joining a Black church. It’s so very cringy and inappropriate.

Lea has a thing where she bad sings. Because she has such a phenomenal voice the juxtaposition of her bad singing is so good it’s cringing, off key, and piercing but so freaking funny. They would ask her to do it all the time on set between takes. She had the ability to get just off key enough that you are like oh god. They made her do it for Ryan and he laughed. The face she performs The Climb with is the one she uses when she does her bad singing. It’s like she’s not aware but she knows something is wrong. She did it live because it wasn’t a recordable thing. She has an earwig in her ear and you can see it. It was so she could keep time and keep the track.

She was singing and there was no music. They rest of the cast and to sit it he choir room in silence. They ere all trying to keep it together but it was so hard. Jenna was crying just thinking about it. There is a shot of Kevin before she starts singing and he’s already laughing. He’s doing his frowny face and turned away from her because he knew what was coming.

Lea was like guys you’ve got to stop laughing, I’ve got to get this done because they were making her laugh. The only way for them to not laugh was to make confused faces. Harry’s face was phenomenal. Nothing has ever made Kevin laugh harder then when Lea did her bad singing. Kevin texted her once and asked her do it on her phone for him.

Back to the episode recap. Rachel realizes that some of the glee club isn’t pulling their weight. She bribes Zizes with candy to but the choir room.

Ryan confirmed that Jesse was named Jesse so that Finn could sing Jesse’s Girl. This is Finn’s Don’t Rain On My Parade.

On the second tour the girls had a quick change room under the stage. Somehow along the way it turned into the girls pole dancing and stripping as they changed. Kevin heard about it and he would see them doing full strip tease. This would happen during Jesse’s Girl.

On one of the tours Jenna peed in a bucket.

Jesse’s Girl became an iconic number.

Rachel loses her mind and loses her will to live. She’s told she has to have surgery which is a scary thing when you are a singer.

Finn takes Rachel to see friend Sean Fretthold who is paralyzed. The actor who plays him, Zack, is paralyzed from the waist down.

When Rachel was crying in the scenes with him Lea was really crying.

Alfonso did an amazing job with these scenes.

There was an NPR article on Zack that came out the day the episode aired .He didn’t say anything bad about Kevin but said their should be more opportunities for actors that are disabled.

I’m like Tinkerbelle I need applause to live is probably one of the best lines of the show. It’s so funny.

This is when Finn decides Rachel needs some perspective.

Kevin said they were dressed like a Gap ad during One. This was a Zach Woodlee this is our Gap ad moment.

Poor Alfonso, they tortured this port guy. They could not control themselves during the serious numbers. The more serious it was the more they would laugh. Fix You was the worst. According to Kevin it was embarrassing.

The other thing that is happening in this episode is Kurt.

The assignment of the week is for everyone to find their voice. This gives us a lot of great solos.

Kurt is really threatened by what is going on with Burt and Finn. Burt takes Finn to a lot of sports ball games as Kevin put it.

Sue asks Kurt how does he know he’s gay. Have you ever kissed a boy, have you kissed a girl? That’s the problem with your generation you are obsessed with labels. Say you like show tunes that doesn’t mean you are gay, means your awful. Another funny Sue line.

This leads Kurt to go on a John Mellencamp trip and wearing flannel. Burt just goes with it. Kurt sings Ain’t That America.

The scene where Kurt is making out with Brittany and Burt comes down. Burt says, when you decided you let me know. It’s always so poignant and impactful. The show constantly constantly is going high low. You have Kurt and Brittany being silly and then a very touching grounded scene with Burt. The show is constantly swinging back and forth between those highs and lows. You get those beautiful grounded moments and silly weird moments all in one scene.

This eventually leads to Rose’s Turn. Kevin has pictures of when Kurt’s name was in lights. It was a phenomenal performance. Chris slayed. He was nominated for an Emmy for this performance. He didn’t win but it’s fine he won a Golden Globe.

Burt gets to see him perform this and we get that moment of you don’t need to change who you are to make me love you.

Chris wanted this song so badly. He had been pitching this song so hard. Kevin didn’t know any of this and of course didn’t know the song because he didn’t know Broadway when he started Glee.

It’s an iconic song. It was brilliant and it was amazing he got a sign kind of like Roxy Hart in Chicago. They also changed the lyrics.

Jenna was blown away and so happy for him. Chris was so excited to do it.

They got to watch him do the number. Kevin and Jenna said Chris has never sounded better.

Billy Porter sang it during a commercial break for the Tony’s. It’s unbelievable.

This episode was a lot of Ryan listening and giving everyone what they wanted.

Tartie Takes:

Ouchies/Cringe Moments - Puck referring to Mercedes as black girl several times. Kevin said specifically said when Puck says girl you’ve got more curves then a Nissan ad.

Best Dance Move - Naya head bob for Monica in The Boy Is Mine

Best Song - Kevin: The Boy Is Mine Jenna: Jesse’s Girl

Best Performance by a Prop - Kurt in lights on the stage.

Best Line - Jenna: I’m like Tinkerbelle Finn I need applause to live. Kevin: show you like show tunes doens’t mean your gay it just means your awful and also when she says I checked out of this conversation a minute ago, I have to remind myself to not stop and talk with students. Even when she’s not really in an episode she’s in an episode. She shows up says the greatest shit ever heard and gets the hell out.

The Shit We Found On TikTok:

There is a TikTok that ranks the songs of every episode. For Laryngitis they got the top three correct. They ranked The Climb last. Rose’s Turn is somewhere in the middle. The Boy Is Mine was number 1 on their ranking.

Next week is Dream On…it’s like Wheels part 2. They are both excited to watch it.