Well, the shingles actually caused a couple of week delay on her treatment. However, she had her last rads on Friday. She handled it way better this time than last. I imagine that is due to her limited amount of native tissue in her mouth. Less things that have feeling are less things to be sore.

She's unlikely to come off the feeding tube, however, she's gained a lot of mobility in her tongue over the past few months due to all the mobility exercises she's been doing to try to keep the mobility in her tongue so they are going to do some reevaluation of her swallowing when her mouth has healed up, just in case.

She will be fine, however, if things don't improve on that front. She's just happy to be pain free after surgery. And she is certain that her daughters can work out how to travel with the tube. I'm sure we can, too.