page announced on his google profile in may  that his right vocal cord is paralyzed from a cold that he contracted the previous summer while his left cord was paralyzed in  page explained that he has been suffering from a vocal cord issue for  years and as of his may  post doctors were still unable to identify the exact cause of the problem the google post also revealed that page had donated a considerable sum of money to a vocal-cord nerve-function research program at the voice health institute in boston us the program at massachusetts general hospital is led by steven zeitels the eugene b casey professor of laryngeal surgery an anonymous source stated that the donation exceeded $ million