John is in his sixth week post treatment. He has been making an effort to swallow. Initially, the thick mucous in his throat made it almost impossible to swallow even water -- he likened it to drowning. Now that there is a bit less mucous (depending on the day and the time of day) he finds that his throat is very sensitive and it makes him cough if he tries even a teaspoon of tea. We have tried tea, ice chips, papaya juice, pineapple juice and we just can't seem to get past the sensitivity. He has even become sensitive to the flat club soda which he has been using since Day 1 of treatment (we will try the low sodium variety today). Is there anything else that we can try? Would manukha honey help?

He is seeing his RO next week, maybe I should ask to have his swallowing assessed?