Hi folks,

I have to fill this self-questionnaire out and, as always, I have difficulty understanding many of the questions. I was wondering if someone would mind helping me to answer the questions that I don't know how to answer. If anyone is willing, I'll post the questions here and explain the cause of my confusion. I'll give one such question now, just to kind of give you an idea what I'm struggling with.

e.g. In the last thirty days, how much difficulty did you have in:
D3.3: Eating

The five possible answers are: none, mild, moderate, severe, extreme/cannot do.

If eating requires preparation, then most days I can no longer do it due to physical disabilities. Occasionally, perhaps two to three times a week, I'll manage to make something requiring less than five minutes preparation time, but the rest of the time I'm out of luck.

If eating doesn't require preparation, then I can do it usually - though my doctor has me on a soft foods because my throat muscles don't always work. When that happens, the food gets stuck and I can't breathe. Usually, it can get forced down with a blast of water from a high pressure source I keep handy, but occasionally it'll exit out my nose or mouth. Occasionally is maybe three times a week when I ignore my doctors dietary recommendations and once a week when I follow his suggestions.

So, it's not extreme if I don't eat solid foods - but that seems a little extreme in and of itself doesn't it? And once a week is one meal out of twenty-one (at three meals a day) so just under 5% of the time it doesn't work out - and that's only one bite out of who knows how many. Although once I have such an attack the meal is over and no more bites are forthcoming. A 5% failure rate doesn't seem extreme but it's extremely physically traumatic.

Anyway, I've got ten days till I have to turn this in - I not asking anyone to answer them for me, just make sense out of them for me so I can answer them myself.