Annabel,
My tongue is immobile. I use a chopstick to move the food to the side I chew on tell her to keep moving the food back to the teeth to make sure the food is small enough to swallow and use water to wash it down or push it far enough back so she can swallow on her own. I've decided 3 glasses of water per meal and I'm done. I get water logged, but am still frightened of choking.
Try the Can't Chew Cook Book. I looked it up on Amazon.com and it looked pretty good. Although I can't bear the thought of purueed stroganoff so I didn't get it. My diet consists of yorgurt smoothies, yorgurt, pudding applesauce, scrambled eggs and ensure plus PEG tube feedings for now.
lynn
Stage 3, N0, M0 oral tongue cancer survivor, 85-90% of tongue removed, neck disection, left tonsil removed, chemo/radiation treatments, surgery 11/03, raditation ended 1/04, lung mets discovered 4/04,
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