In 2015, she discovered she had polyps and needed vocal cord surgery.
“I am a singer. A lot of my identity is tied to my voice. It is my bread and butter, my career, what I love to do. The irony was it happened in the year I wasn’t singing at all. So my vocal cords should be safe. It started with acid reflux, which created phlegm for six months. I developed blisters and I took steroids and rested, thinking I would be fine. As it turned out, all the resting in the world didn’t help. I needed surgery.”
“The thing is I didn’t do anything to get this. And I couldn’t do anything that could undo that. I realised that the only thing I could do was to just pray. What gave me strength and identity, something to be proud of, could be taken from me forever. Because once you have surgery, you just don’t know what could happen to your vocal cords. The doctors said I would recover, but they just could not guarantee how my vocal cords would heal. After the surgery, I recovered, praise the Lord! That also gave me the reason to share more about the Lord.”