Hi everyone,

Sorry to be so out of touch. I haven't posted for awhile because things have been very stressful on many fronts here. Overall, Roy seems to be making progress except in terms of his eating. He is able to drink Ensure and eat very soft foods like pudding, but that's it. If he tries to eat other things with more body, like mashed potatoes, they seem to get stuck and build up in his esophagus after swallowing. Then, they will suddenly decide to...umm...lets say...eject. Consequently, he gets 99.9% of calories from his feeding tube. Is this normal at 4 months post treatment? He has gone to a speech therapist but finds that the exercises do not help. At this point, would it make sense for them to do some sort of imaging to see what's going on in there? Thanks for your input, Laurie