Thank-you guys for your responses and the information on Misskate's blogs. Very good and inspirational for a no tonguer like myself. I sure hope I will be able to eat that steak covered with mushrooms like she did one year out from surgery. I have been on the ole PEG tube diet now since Sept 08 so the thought of eating for real is kinda beyond my imagination now. At first it was terrible, the commercials on TV would drive me crazy (Red Lobster is the worst). Now its, well, I sure look forward to eating again someday but I am not consumed by it anymore. Maybe it is just an acceptance of my situation. Well thanks again and I am sure glad I found ya.
Clark