Kastasia

🎉 January Update 🎉

Added 2025-01-08 18:01:13 +0000 UTC

Happy New Year everyone! 🩷 I wanted to pop in and let you know how things are going with my recovery. I'm still healing very well, things are just going slow. But I’m doing my best to stay committed and patient through it all!

Here’s the latest updates:

• My range, breathiness, and fluctuations are still giving me trouble.

• After my appointment on Dec 31st, my voice routine changed a lot! I’m now only doing a few minutes of vocal exercises in the morning and at night vs the 10-15 minutes 5 times a day I was doing before. This should be a less taxing way to still push my recovery forward without overdoing it.

• I've also been practicing character voices for 5-10 minutes a day and recording it for my appointments so they can track how I’m doing and make adjustments.

• I was told about going on vocal rest for 5-7 days after a steroid injection (since the oral ones back in November didn’t work), but nothing’s set in stone yet. On my January 23rd appointment I’ll ask if there's any dates in mind for when they think I'll be getting the injection and update you all when I know more!

• Like I mentioned before I had to show snips of my voice stuff at this appointment, but during my appointment I also ended up having to tell them my alias too, which I didn't wanna do :< They needed to analyze my voice acting and figure out how I use my voice, my range, technique, etc and what would help the most since I'm now working with two speech therapists instead of one (the new one works with VAs and speakers and understands my voice demands better). I know it was necessary, but I still felt so shy and awkward about it afterward...

But that aside, thank you all so much for sticking with me and being so supportive. I'm going to keep pushing through recovery so let’s make 2025 an amazing year together! 🫶