Hey, I go away for a couple of weeks on a ship and come back to this?!?
Kendall, you might be the cap'n, but there's mutiny in the wind. Listen to the crew.
Know this, too: my wife has had one functioning vocal cord since she was 17. Thyroid cancer; the surgery froze one and nicked the one that's left. She can't shout and sings only in church (and admits that she doesn't do it very well). BUT!! You annoy her and she can blister the tar off a rope. She's going on 43 or 44 years cured of cancer. If she can do it, so can you. She says that she never considered any other option than complete cure, then or now.