Hello and welcome to Forever 35, a podcast about the things we do to take care of ourselves.

I'm Dory Shafrier.

And I'm Elise Hugh, and we're just two friends who like to talk a lot about serums.

And this is a mini episode where we hear from you. We share your comments and your thoughts.

And we answer your questions to the best of our ability. But please do remember, we are not experts.

We're podcast hosts. And we always encourage you to seek support first and foremost from a medical and or mental

health professional as needed. And this is our first mini up back. Yes. And I was I was going to say,

Elise, you have your voice back. Yeah. Ish. Yeah. Yeah. I still hear a little rasp, but yeah. I mean,

you could like barely talk.

Right.

It was really rough. And a big thanks to my doctor who agreed to give me the steroids to try and speed things along.

Typically they don't.

Typically, they're like, no, if you have laryngitis, you just have to suffer because you just need vocal rest, vocal rest,

hot tea with honey, lemon, all those things.

But I insisted, I really pressed that I have to talk for a living.

Like, this is my job.

We can't move things around necessarily.

There were other shows that I had to tape. And she was like, well, if you really can't move things around necessarily. There were other shows that I had to tape.

And she was like, well, if you really can't move things around, what I could do is prescribe a steroid.

Oh, my God.

But I really don't want to, you know, and so eventually.

So can I just, like without getting too much into like medical stuff can I just ask why they're so

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