Hi there, thanx fo the warm welcome and I even got some pretty good Dutch language as a welcome...I enjoyed that.

Eileen: About using TEP, speach and stuff. I don't, well at least not with sounds. The only way to communicate is by sign language or digital speech wich is nothing more then typing and a computervoice comes from a computer... this is because I can get a litlle air to my stomach threw my mouth and push it out to make a voice, but without a thong I really can't make any descent words.

and to erik: I still can't swallow, cause of the complete abcents of my tongue. I tried some liquids by letting it flow in to my foodpipe (sorry couldn't come up with the right english word), but even that is difficult. Maybe it will come in the future, cause I am still learning. In the meantime I used different forms of getting a meal into my body. I used a type wich got the right nutricians and stuff threw an IV into my bloodstream, but I have also used tube wich went into my stomach.
Maybe that is one of the hardest things to accept for me, cause I liked going out to dinner a lot... but the positive way to look at it is that I don't have much trouble now for keeping my figure wink

Jaqueline

not able to talk does not mean not able to think...