Folks I've been heartbroken and sick since Don's swallow therapist told me on the phone last Wednesday that she didn't expect that he would EVER eat a steak again! (Unless it was blended with gravy) And she said it as if she thought we realized that! He had radical right side and partial 2/3 tongue base glossectomy April 12,2004 Talk about a kick in the stomach. Don in no way has that impression and I didn't either when I compare his story with many of yours. Now here I am again being the bearer of bad news. I asked that she call him the next day and she missed him. Friday she didn't try. Since then I've been desperatly trying to find SOMETHING out there with more hope before I break this to him. You know, something to go on. Something to say he wont have to choke after every bite. Well this is what I stumbled on. I'm so excited right now I can't see straight. I did a search for "success swallow therapy" and came across this FDA approved treatment. It's relativly new, electric stimulation of the muscles of the throat that re-train them and it's PAINLESS! They are using it for all causes of dysphagia... even HEAD AND NECK cancers! Hospitals are starting to use it. I found out when I did a search on the therapy "VitalStim" itself. So I came back here and figured someone here MUST have posted about it before but I did a search on the term and got 0 results. Brian, Ed, Danny, anyone please tell me I really have stumbled on some hope FOR ALL of us.