Hey everybody - thanks for responding. I spent today going back through old posts and reading tom & charlotte's book again. I made a list of suggestions for Dan and tonight he agreed to try the hot tea. He said the swallowing pain is here in full force - even with liquids. It took several tries to get dinner in him tonight, but he did finally eat something. Tomorrow he wants potato and ham soup - but real small / fine chunks. The mucous is horrible and last night I heard him choking all night. Tonight I gave him two of his surgery pain meds (Lortab 7.5) - he is real susceptible to meds so hopefully he will sleep tonight. We see the RO tomorrow so we'll discuss all of this with him and I'm sure get new pain meds.

Thanks for your support!