Well, my dad had his swallow study today with poor results. The speech therapist didn't say he "failed" but she said all he should be swallowing at this point is a teaspoon of water at one time. That seems pretty bad to me. Although, maybe they start everyone out slowly. She told him to do more tongue exercises as these will increase his ability to swallow. Do these really help? I'm just afraid he may have to be tube fed forever and that is really horrible for his quality of life. He can't even feed himself because he has tremors and cannot pour the cans into the tube. He'll be halfway done with radiation tomorrow. That's one good thing. I feel like this will never get any better. Maybe I'm just a little depressed for him.