 I needed to fight for myself. So when I lost my voice, when I lost my physical appearance, when I lost everything that I had been before, who I had been before, I had to decide if this loss was going to define and derail me or if it was going to be the means to developing me. And so very simply, I had to decide, am I going to be the woman who talks funny or am I going to be the woman who has something to say?