Born with no voice & low odds, boy talks with new voice box

(AP) – Grant Hasse was born with two very rare conditions — one that’s usually fatal, the other that should have left him unable to talk.
But at almost 4 years old, he’s a healthy bundle of energy after three dozen surgeries, including an innovative operation to create a new voice box.
Doctors discovered before he was born that Grant’s upper airway was completely blocked, meaning that at birth, he’d be unable to breathe. Even with quick intervention, doctors s