Results: Mute for 12 Years (Part 2 of 2)
A 13-year-old Australian girl was unable to speak for 12 years . . . and then something changed.
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After being mute for 12 years, one day in 1984 while at work 25-year-old Marie Heffernan (now McCreadie) started to choke, and coughed up blood. After being rushed to the hospital, doctors extracted a black lump from her throat that was a 1959 Australian threepence. The coin had been lodged horizontally between her vocal cords preventing them from vibrating, and had not been visible in X-rays. What's your reaction to this outcome?
I'm surprised.
47%
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481 votes
Her former doctors were not very cents-able, er, sensible.
26%
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267 votes
I thought it might be something stuck in her vocal cords.
9%
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90 votes
N/A
25%
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258 votes
Other
3%
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28 votes
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Initially Marie made sounds like moaning and crying. She said, "I had to learn how breathe properly to push the voice out". She shared her experiences in a book called "Voiceless". Had it occurred to you that you would need to breathe a certain way to speak?
Yes
22%
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227 votes
No
51%
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528 votes
N/A
27%
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279 votes
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