 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: May 2002 Posts: 2,152 | Ensure is not oily tasting. That just must be her taste buds shutting down from the radiation. I couldn't eat food because everything tasted salty. I read somewhere on this board that the salt atste is the last to go. Guess I had lsot all the others and could only taste salt.
Anyway, I had no peg and lived on 4 cans of ENSURE PLUS a day. Make certain it is cold. It was a struggle, but generally could get it down in a half hour, but I had no surgery other than neck dissection. I liked the vanilla and butter pecan. Still drink it for breakfast.
Keep her spirits up and remember to take care of yourself too.
Eileen
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Aug 1997 unknown primary, Stage III
mets to 1 lymph node in neck; rt ND, 36 XRT rad
Aug 2001 tiny tumor on larynx, Stage I total laryngectomy; left ND
June 5, 2010 dx early stage breast cancer
June 9, 2011 SCC 1.5 cm hypo pharynx, 70% P-16 positive, no mets, Stage I
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