Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110121:10:54:00
When she was -- 12 years ago actually after complications with thelept lation tube during the hospital stay. since then she's lived with a robot voice. and says she's had more than a decade of social isolation but recently doctors from california did a pretty difficult larynx transplant and gave her her voice back. >> it was my eig80th operation. >> 80, right. >> 80. >> but after 12 years of putting up with a lot of humiliation, a lot of teasing, not only from the kids but from adults staring because i talked with a mechanical machine and i sounded look a robot. and everywhere i was, people tu...