Patty,
in addition to yogurt and ensure/carnation ice cream shakes etc you might also try soft cooked elbow pasta, make it slippery with cream or butter. It will get worse (usually) before it gets better.... Watch that your weight does not drop precipitously!

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Partial glossectomy (25%) anterior tongue. 4/6/07/. IMRT start @5/24/07 (3x) Erbitux start/end@ 5/24/07. IMRT wider field (30x) start 6/5/07. Weekly cisplatin (2x30mg/m2), then weekly carbo- (5x180mg/m2). End of Tx 19 July 07.