Hi, as most of you know, my husband had the modified neck dissection surgery on 2/6/03 and has had quite a problem with the swelling from it. Well, yep - he still has it, only now it seems like it's "traveling" to the other side of his face. It also still hurts to swallow with the gullet in his throat. ( A pool or pocket where food and liquid and pills seem to get caught). The doctors he has seen recently (his oral surgeon and radiation oncologist) do not seem too concerned about it...basically telling him there isn't anything that can be done for it. The radiation doctor did find it odd that John still can't eat "any" food he wants - but the fact remains that there are many things still off limits yet because it's either too spicy, hard, dry or involves a lot of chewing. And this swelling he is experiencing only complicates matters. I don't really expect anyone to offer any solutions to this problem - believe me, John has tried just about everything - and nothing seems to help. I guess I just wanted to throw this out there and to see if anyone has experienced any swelling that seems to move to the other side of the face as well as the original side. Thanks for listening.