Thanks everyone. Reggie is seeing an SLP and because he still has so much swelling in the tongue and the throat she was pretty content with sips of water. I just don't want him to become complacent and hurt his chances of regaining the apropriate abilities. My goal is always the long term outlook. My husband can be very stubborn and needs a bit of a push. I just don't want to push too hard and he digress. By the way, still no word on the path report. It's back but the MO is gone til the first of the year. We just aren't thinking about it.