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wiley

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15. Good News!
Sat Apr 14, 2018, 04:12 AM
Apr 2018

Careful about anything acidic or too hot. Do nectar consistency foods rather than water first though. I used to take well cooked steel cut oats, lots of honey, buttermilk or milk kefir and apples or bananas and blend very smoothly. Add ice to get to right consisitency. Sometime I added a few barely poached eggs in sugar and blended up! Fiber and calories. Avoid cakes, soft breads and anything that can become a paste if you have any swallowing issues. When I could swallow I just could not deal with potatoes or any bread.Too much fat in stuff made me gag. SMALL mouthfuls at first. I assume you are doing the swallowing and preventing Trismus exercises? The first two tubes I had removed would have been easier to deal with had I been instructed to do the exercises before months had gone by. Those muscles are not so easy to recover and trismus is a big problem down the road if you relent.
Good Luck!

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