Chimet
Mining
The Leaf Label
Each time Craig Kirkpatrick-Whitby speaks, he has to carry down a button on a tool in his neck, which stops air popping out of a gap in his throat. He explains the opening-closing mechanism earlier than he reinserts the white plastic disc. It’s a warmth and moisture exchanger, implanted to permit him to retain moisture in his lungs.
“I’ve had cancer three times in the last four-and-a-half years,” he says, his voice now generated by a tracheoesophageal voice prosthesis embedded within the again…