What you are describing is dysphagia. It effect people in a wide variety of degrees and for very different amounts of time... even forever. My recommendation is to see if the facility you are being treated at has a speech/swallowing therapist that you can see. There are techniques that you can learn to make this easier. How long it lasts, or to what degree, that therapy and time will tell.

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