It feels like I've got my life back now my voice has returned

Mystery illness meant Cassie had to learn to speak again

- GEMMA RYDER

A MUM left unable to speak after a mystery illness stole her voice has learned to talk again.

Cassie Henning, of Kirkwall in Orkney, had to quit her NHS job and rely on her family just to get by after her life was turned upside down in January.

She previously told how doctors were baffled by her condition, which developed from a lump in her throat and left her barely able to muster a whisper.

However, a breakthrough finally came on September 13, when the 35-year-old's voice returned, just a month after a specialist diagnosed her with a condition called false cord hypertrophy.

"I woke up that day after having six weeks of speech therapy and said to my partner, 'I can speak," the mum-of-two said.