I know the drill, everybody is different, each surgery leaves different scars, results vary from therapy, etc etc
What I don't know is the actual experiences from OCF posters. Wed, april 15 will be seven weeks after my glossectomy and neck dissection and I still cannot swallow anything. My ENT follow up on Good Friday showed my epiglottis "frozen" with scar tissue and not moving. I do my speech and swallowing exercises but don't see much progress. No professional will hazard a guess as to when I could expect to swallow. My ENT recommended cancelling my Barium swallow test on April 29th since I'd probably fail that one also so I can glean that two weeks is too soon to expect to be able to swallow.
Just impatient - I can deal with the PEG, but would like to be able to do some "comfort" eating or drinking
So HOW LONG FOLKS DID IT TAKE FOR YOU?


65 yr Old Frack
Stage IV BOT T3N2M0 HPV 16+
2007:72GY IMRT(40) 8 ERBITUX No PEG
2008:CANCER BACK Salvage Surgery
25GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin
Apaghia /G button
2012: CANCER BACK -left tonsilar fossa
40GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin

Passed away 4-29-13