Are you ready for this....

Well you know how yesterday I said that the speech therapists was going to come back today and see if Cory would be able to pass his swallow test. She came back today and she had vanilla pudding and ice tea for Cory to try and just see if he was starting to get his bulbar function back. We all were very skeptical and really weren't expecting much to happen. In fact Cory told his aunt this morning who came to visit that this disease has been so hard and everything that he had been through has seemed to always be the worst case scenario so, he didn't think this test was going to be an exception and he was prepared not to pass the test today.

Back to the food that was going to be used to pass the test. Well some of you might have noticed that on the sidebar of this very blog we have listed Cory's "FIRST MEAL" and one of the items listed is DIET COKE not iced tea...the ST (speech therapists) was not able to find any diet Coke so Cory, as sick as he is, turned to me and said "didn't I see a soda machine in the court yard" haha I swear Cory has an amazing sense when he wants to. You have to remember he is in a bed and can only see a little part of the outside but you better believe he saw the coke machine.

So out I went to find the DIET COKE!!!! and find it, I DID!!!!

The ST put some blue dye (just for the record she did not skimp on the dye, he still has the blue lips to prove it) into the pudding and off we went. After three big scoops of pudding we called in the RT (respiratory therapists) to suction out his lungs and see if any of dreaded BLUE DYE went into his lungs and guess what...

IT WAS ALL CLEAR!!!!

So now Cory can EAT...YEAH!!!!! O and the best part, he can TASTE and he said it tasted like it was his first time eating food ever....

Cory is sooo excited and grateful for his new ability to swallow again. He has been expressing how appreciative he is of everything. Now he is excited to be ALIVE and wants to experience everything life has to offer.