dad is home from surgery. he was talking the day after the surgery. he sounds a bit muffled and has trouble ith a few letters. about half the tip was removed and the surgon said he should end up with "marginally" affected quality of speech. so right now after one week we understand about 80% of what he says and i expect this to become 100% in the next few weeks or else I am going to be quite POd and demand to know why a reconstructive surgeon wasn't brought in. hope you're improving as well.