Brian did you go to the hospital with the couple of bouts with aspiration pnemonia? When I was first released from hospital I was aspirating and couple times I had a fever spike and chills and lots of fatigue but next day woke up feeling fine. Dr.'s at MDA told me to watch out for this because it was a very serious type of pnemonia.

JCK2006: I had some swallowing problems also because I had surgery to the upper throat, romoved some tissue above voice box including epiglottis. The speech therapy folks at MD Anderson got me going again with the swallowing and I also did the exercises that you speak of and still do a few. They had me holding my breath, turning my head to the right, before swallowing and it worked. Now I just face forward and its all second nature, very few problems. Surgery was end of april and now I do great as long as I stay away from rice and all of the small grainy stuff cause it goes down the windpipe regardless of what I do. Major coughing fits when this happens...