Hi Tammy
My husbands trache was kept in after surgery because of swelling concerns. They say that radiation causes swelling so it's for safety reasons that they kept it in.
Speech therapy team also not very keen on doing a swallow test because they say things( the mouth) could change during and after radiation so the results are not a true indication of what is true in terms of swallowing.
He's going to be given 35 radiation treatments and 3 cisplastin. How did your husband handle radiation and chemo side effects? Were they bearable?