 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,128 | Here's a good book "Easy-to-Swallow Easy-to-Chew Cookbook" available from Amazon along with a lot of good books like this one -- Don't forget to access Amazon through the Button on the main OCF page.
Keep exercising your swallower and also keep stretching your jaw open! Advice from a specialist included doing nothing but swallowing at first (No reading, TV, other people, etc) and concentrate on it.
I had a PEG through radiation, but took medicine orally and drank lots of water.
Age 67 1/2
Ventral Tongue SCC T2N0M0G1 10/05
Anterior Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 6/08
Base of Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 12/08
Three partial glossectomy (10/05,11/05,6/08), PEG, 37 XRT 66.6 Gy 1/06
Neck dissection, trach, PEG & forearm free flap (6/08)
Total glossectomy, trach, PEG & thigh free flap (12/08)
On August 21, 2010 at 9:20 am, Pete went off to play with the ratties in the sky.
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