Saw the ear, nose & throat specialist again today. It's amazing how effecient these guys are! I spent 10 minutes waiting to see him, he came in and spent about a minute with me (looked down my throat and asked me to repeat the letter 'E' a number of times), and bam that's an $85 consultation! Hard to say if my paralyzed left vocal chord is making a recovery although he noticed my stronger voice - might be my right vocal chord compensating. So we get to do this again in three months and hopefully we'll see a noticable improvement by then.