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| Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,918 Likes: 67 OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,918 Likes: 67 | Sounds like you are doing really well after your ordeal. Most people that have partial glossectomies, struggle eating, but eventually difficulties in doing so, speaking clearly, and eating normally return with practice and time. The hardest thing to learn is moving the bolus of chewed food to the back of the mouth for swallowing. If a month from now this is still an issue, most treatment centers have a speech and swallowing specialist on staff that can give you exercises that will get you past this. Good luck. Eating and speaking well are things that I no longer can do at all, I would give anything to be able to enjoy a meal with others these days.
Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. | | |
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