Well I just don't see the "slow recovery". It takes about a month for each week of radiation for most of us to shake off the effects. so please do the math. One reason I agreed to do the Patient's perspective on swallowing per Brian's request is that almost everyone who first posts here has vast over-expectations on recovery time that simply does not comport with the majority of experience that the OCF poster have suffered through.
I have never been a patient person, so I fully empathize with the frustration over the slow pace, but I have always been a realist.