 Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | Hi Pam. Welcome to OCF! Congrats to your father for finishing his treatments and now being 2 years cancer free! I know all too well what having a feeding tube is like. Your father should have a swallow test done to determine if he is physically able to swallow. Then it can take months of slow progress to regain his ability to eat again. It can be done so I hope he will give it a try. But he must seek out a dietitian to first do the swallow study so he doesnt aspirate.
By the way, I dont have any teeth at all. Mine were lost due to radiation damage.
You and your father are among others like himself now. We have many similarities!
ChristineSCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44 2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07 -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma 2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years very happy to be alive  | 
