Finally got to meet Belen, the speech pathologist, yesterday! It was she who finally said Glen needed to see a neurologist. The road that sent us down may not have been a happy one... but at least now we have a road map and access to a GPS, rather than wandering aimlessly.

So, she felt Glen's swallowing was a little weaker than the last time he saw her. We talked about eating slowly, skipping the squirt bottles and ordering thin crust pizza. He doesn't seem to swallow thick liquids any more easily than water so she said not to worry about that for right now.

The biggest concern right now is keeping his weight up. He likes to keep track of the calories he burns on the elliptical... so I've suggested we use that as a guide: if you burn 200 calories, you have to ADD that many calories to what you would normally have eaten that day. Boost, Ensure, mayonnaise, whole milk... as I keep saying, demonstrating again God's twisted sense of humor: Kev & I just take everything we've learned at Weight Watchers, and reverse it!!