Botox - day 6

The change in swallowing has been gradual and I think I can say now that the physical sensation of food getting "blocked" then "released" has been replaced with the physical sensation of food slowly sliding down. It's still a bit disconcerting that there's a physical sensation at all (perhaps I'm overly sensitized to it) but I am perceiving an improvement.

I haven't had any sensations of reflux and I'm still sleeping with a wedge pillow.

After 4 weeks of putting all my meals through a blender, I've stopped blending. I'm still choosing soft stuff and that's working fine.

Getting back out to restaurants again: last night I had a bowl of Chirashi sushi. I avoided the ginger and wasabi although I miss both quite a bit. I had no problems with the variety of textures found among the rest of the items: tuna, salmon, egg, asparagus, roe, eel, I'm not quite sure what some of that was, rice, plus a couple avocado cream cheese rolls. Did fine with the seaweed too.

I'm ready to venture forth cautiously...