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Hard to swallow

The Food Chain

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Dysphagia or Difficulty Swallowing

There's a window of time in recovery that they're looking for you to get back a certain percentage of your ability. And then after that window, it decreases. The further you go, the less recovery. So my condition kept expanding past the window. Past a year, past 18 months, then it went into two years. Then you're kind of going outside the window. Professor Bronwyn Hamsley, head of speech pathology at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, helps people with this kind of condition.

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