Nothing better than be a diabetes patient myself - 30

I have said in the posting of May 23, 2008 about my voice and blur eyesight problem.

Since then, I asked my Chinese doctor to concentrate on the voice problem before the diabetes was over. Then he always asked me if I had spittle. I told him that only occasionally. He said that it would be better if I had more. If I had much spittle, my larynx (voice box) would be recovered very soon.

It took almost a month before something changed. I felt the heat in my mouth and have coughing for more than a week.

Then the two date earlier, I had blood with spittle. This happened once a day only. There is a medical term, Hemoptysis, for this type of symptom. From the Wikipedia, "Hemoptysis or haemoptysis (see American and British spelling differences) is the expectoration (coughing up) of blood or of blood-stained sputum from the bronchi, larynx, trachea, or lungs (e.g. in tuberculosis or other respiratory infections)".

I believe that my voice problem is due to the disorder of my larynx. With over thirty years of teaching and smoking, I must have hurt the larynx or it had accumulated with bad radicals or heat in Chinese medical term.

To release the radical or heat from the larynx is not easy. I shall find the answer later if the present change is really a sign of recovery. Of course, my voice has been somewhat better day by day in this period. I need to recover before September because I have to handle seminars and training courses within the last quarter of this year.