Once lost my voice for 9 months due to serverly straining my vocal chords ant my previous telesales job. I couldn’t speak more than a whisper and even that hurt like hell and left me breathess after long sentences .Had my sick pay stopped after 2 months and was told to find a job walking dogs or something. Got thrown onto workseekers benfits and eventualy got handed over to Remploy to try and help me find work. Bare in mind through out all of this I couldn’t be heard when speaking on the phone, couldn’t be heard in a place with any sort of background noise unless i was right next to the person and had to cary a note pad with my at all times in order to effectivly comumniacte. Thakfully i eventually regained my voice but those 9 months were a living joke