Dr. Tabatha Barber was told by doctors her mouth would be sewn shut after a necessary repair, silencing her voice. Her husband pushed back against accepting that fate. She decided to reject the limits others imposed and fight to keep speaking.
all said the same thing. They just said it a little nicer or a little differently. Mm-hmm. But they all basically said the repair's gonna be too big. Your mouth is gonna have to be sewn shut. You can't talk, you can't smile, all this stuff. And some people might not think it's a big deal, but it was a really big deal to me. Obviously I talk for a living, but it wasn't just about that. It was about just being told that you can't use your voice, that you can't talk. Cuz it, there was one moment where I said, maybe that's just what I'm gonna have to go through. And, and like shut everything down for like a year and, Whatever, I'll just go through that. And thankfully my husband's like, "That is not your portion because you actually would get depressed and be depressed if you had to be laid up with your mouth shut." It's not like I'd just be with my mouth shut being like, "Everything's gonna be great in 6 months, like, or a year." Or like, "I'll be fine. Let me just read all these books and pray." Sometimes you have to question and know that that is not your portion. And that's what happened where I was just like, "No, I'm not accepting this." But what am I gonna do?
