I have been struggling with sinus drainage and saliva sliding into my lungs because my left vocal cord is paralyzed. Yesterday, I had filler injected to try and stop that and the vocal cord specialist thinks a side effect will be full restoration of my voice. While he was in there, he also dilated my esophageal sphincter to try and compensate for my weakened and atrophied swallow muscles. He also decided to dilate a little kink just before the sphincter that happened as the radiation damage was healing. He also did an EGD since I haven't had one since April 2012. Then he also did a bronchoscopy to assess the condition of my lungs. I feel like I really got my money's worth on all that. If things work out, I will be back to a year ago with some food in the picture for comfort eating.

I also was approved for Real Food Blends and have some on the way. It's been a pretty good week for me.

SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0
Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation
Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03
Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08.
Cervical Spinal Stenosis 01/11
Cervical Myelitis 09/12
Thoracic Paraplegia 10/12
Dysautonomia 11/12
Hospice care 09/12-01/13.
COPD 01/14
Intermittent CHF 6/15
Feeding tube NPO 03/16
VFI 12/2016
ORN 12/2017
Cardiac Event 06/2018
Bilateral VFI 01/2021
Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022
Bilateral VFI 05/2022
Total Laryngectomy 01/2023