@colleenyoung Thanks for those also. I've had one unfortunate aspiration incident, which was my fault and which showed up on the PET scan, and that convinced me that I needed to be satisfied with the soft food in the mornings and depend on the tube until they can stretch enough lumen in my esophagus so I can forget the tube. I have an additional problem that most, thank goodness, don't have and that's spasms. They can be momentary or last hours. Everything's been tried but Botox, which carries its own burden of side effects...