Ron's has still been swollen and his surgery was 5/13/10 and radiation ended 8/16/10 and his Doc said ya it is still swollen and will be for a while yet. And David he had one of those sweet attacks last week also. He ate maple and brown sugar oatmeal with tons of sugar in it(it was low sugar) and than Thursday he saw something on TV with pancakes and tried to eat a waffle he said with lotsa butter and syryp to make it soft, when that didn't work out too well he scooped up the butter and syrup and ate that. lol slowly things come back slowly be patient and what does the dr's say his future is? did they say he will be able to eat again, did he have a swallow study? Ron has no teeth and at first they said he will get dentures but not for a while maybe 6 months yet. Be patient it does take a long time after radiation to start the healing process. did you post what your brother had done and i've missed it?