Paula, Alas, chocolate does not taste "right" to me anymore. I made some really gourmet really chocolate-y hot chocolate last night, brured my tongue trying to drink it (ouch--like my tongue isnt' messed up enough already), and was very disappointed in the taste. I just had a good size bowl of mashed potatoes with lots of turkey gravy, thuogh, and it tasted pretty good to me.

I still am having a problem with anything that has any solidity to it--even scrambled eggs! Sometimes it seems to go down OK but then later I cough it back up (I think because it is getting stuck on the little pocket my epiglottis makes. But I'm hopeful that maybe with some work with a speech pathologist I can learn how to deal with that.

HOnestly, my worse problem right now is I have bad trismus and when I stretvh my jaw with the therabite, I get jaw cramps which can be quite painful--though they don't last long. I'm assuming this is part of what I need to go through to get more range of motion and am trying to just deal with the cramps. MY ENT said the only medicines that help would be a muscle relaxer--which tend to really wipe me out so I'd rather not take those.

Nelie