Hi Bonnie !

I'll tackle one of these questions for you. The cooking and taste. (I'm from SE Louisiana and love to cook AND eat!)

I was a good 20 weeks out from my last IMRT treatment before my taste really started to somewhat stabilize. Now at 7 months, I still have times where the taste buds just plain give up for several hours at a time.

I can use Limes and other citrus as flavoring, but don't ask me to drink a glass of grape or orange juice, it's just nasty to me still. I miss my Tabasco. Used to use it like ketchup, not just for the fire but for the taste. Not able to do that at present, however my tolerance for peppery substances is SLOWLY coming back.

Hang in there, it does get better. Back to pre-treatment normal, I hope so.

Kevin

18 YEAR SURVIVOR
SCC Tongue (T3N0M0) diag 06/2006.
No evidence of disease 2010
Another PET 12-2014 pre-HBO, still N.E.D.

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