Tim and Linda,
It took me quite a while before things began to taste good again...much longer than six weeks from the end of treatments. The first thing that I really began to enjoy was chocolate milkshakes that I made at home with Homemade Vanilla Bluebell ice cream with chocolate Hershey's syrup. Then I began to be able to taste salty things and lived on matzo ball soup two meals a day for about a year. I kept the feeding tube for 10 months, and constantly supplemented my diet with chocolate Boost, which, by the way, I still buy by the case at Sam's, even though I can eat most anything. For me it makes a perfect snack when I am hungry and it is so much easier to swallow than most other snacks.

Good luck guys...be patient and keep getting better.

Danny G.


Stage IV Base of Tongue SCC
Diagnosed July 1, 2002, chemo and radiation treatments completed beginning of Sept/02.