"My medical condition's impact on my swallowing"

I attended UHD following seizure and cardiac arrest. This affected my ability to talk, eat, drink and swallow as I had a tracheostomy. I have been here for 100 days. I have received rehab from SLT to swallow successfully and reduce food and fluids going into my lungs. SLT seen me regularly, they explained everything and the reasoning for swallow exercises clearly, they used IOPI and sampling different foods to gauge what I was capable of. Explaining everything clearly reassured me and helped progress in therapy. Very professional all round.

I feel that there is some food waste during these assessment such as giving me banana to try but when I couldn’t eat more this was then dumped. I understand the need for this but perhaps there is a better way.