I wish you and your DH the best! I'm a speech-language pathologist and have done a number of swallow studies (but not so much in the past few years). Are they doing it with an endoscope or in radiology? Let me know if you have any questions, maybe I can help!
The speech pathologist was able to see us yesterday morning and determine that the issues he's still having are related to the swelling he's still experiencing in his tongue and throat and NOT nerve damage!!
She conducted her "test" - what a joke - she gave him water, applesauce and a jelly sandwich and put her finger on his neck while he swallowed them and said "you're fine". Yeah, that was the high tech test we had to wait 2 days for!!! (No offense to speech pathologists out there - I know you do lots of important work. I was just expecting more.)
We still had to wait for the all clear from the doctor which we FINALLY got around 6:30 last night. You've never seen people pack up so quickly as we did to get the hell out of there.
So after 5 long days he's finally home.
Still on a soft food diet, which much to his disappointment, does not allow a steak from Ruth's Chris, but he's allowed to progress the rest of this week as he feels more comfortable.
It was so nice to sleep in a bed last night and wake up without it having to be because the man next to us wet his bed again.
(No offense to speech pathologists out there - I know you do lots of important work. I was just expecting more.)
