Gnu,

Yeah, I did talk to my surgeon and he will refer me to whatever specialist seems appropriate if I need one..all I need to do to do that is let his office know. I just don't know how to tell whether I need to go, or whether I am impatient but healing ok.

I don't think there's necessarily anything wrong but I'd sure like to have some way of judging. I don't know anybody to ask how long their voice was obnoxious and haven't been around anybody who was recuperating from the same (or similar) surgery.
I AM getting impatient about it. It's hard on me to not be able to carry on conversation or carry a tune, and I'm starting to get irritable about folks having a hard time understanding what I'm saying. It's not polite for me to get irritable about that!