Silent aspiration ( which I too have) is very common in those that have been treated for our disease. You have no sense that some of what you are drinking is ending up in your lungs. It does not happen so much with solids just liquids. If this is bad enough, or you become bedridden where you cannot remain upright (the position in which your body can eliminate liquids from the lungs more easily) the outcome is eventually aspiration pneumonia.

Just because you do not feel it happening, does not mean that it is not happening.

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.