A Voice Restored in Ward 7B
In 2019, speech therapist Maria Gutierrez worked with a patient at Houston Methodist Hospital — a retired schoolteacher named Harold Owens who hadn't spoken in...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Luke 1:57-66, 80.
In 2019, speech therapist Maria Gutierrez worked with a patient at Houston Methodist Hospital — a retired schoolteacher named Harold Owens who hadn't spoken in fourteen months after a severe stroke. His family visited daily, talking to him, reading aloud, waiting. Doctors were cautious. Some suggested Harold might never speak again. Maria tried every technique she knew. Mouth exercises. Breathing patterns.…
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