Brian, that answers one question I've been wondering about--when I had my barium swallow, the Speech Pathologist said my epiglottis looked "stubby" and I wondered if radiation wearing away at it could have caused that. I looked at the video of me swallowing and I could see what he meant. Quite honestly, the epiglottis looks way too short to ever cover the trachea completely, even if it had been moving all the way down like it should have been when I swallowed. I guess there's nothing that can be done if that has happened? That's kind of disturbing to me right now since I want to beleive I can getr back to normal here.