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A difficult diagnosis to swallow. #SAD March 16

A difficult diagnosis to swallow. #SAD March 16

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Yvonne McClaren
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"Today I can't swallow" - a poem by Yvonne McClaren - March 2022

Tongue taste flavour

Two years post treatment and today I just can't manage.

I naively thought things would improve.

How wrong can you be. I now know that things trigger this onset of dysphagia. Mostly I try to ignore it, that niggling feeling in my jaw bone where the flesh has pulled away. My tongue when it refu…

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