Vanessa Abraham had spent her entire career helping people find their voices. So she felt it was a cruel twist of fate when she contracted a rare neurological disease that took away her ability to speak and left her paralyzed.
Mrs Abraham, 45 from California, had spent over 15 years helping children overcome speech obstacles and teaching them how to talk, but in March 2019, her life came to a standstill after she began to experience a severe case of the flu.
She suffered from extreme exhaustion, body aches, nausea and vomiting, and soon, her voice began to wane.
She was quickly taken to her local emergency room but within two days had to be moved to the intensive care unit after facing respiratory failure and progressive paralysis.
