This has been a very interesting thread. While I haven't noticed any change in my sense of smell, my taste buds are really crazy. I have always been a chocolate lover, and that tastes like crap to me now. Some things taste good, and others have really no taste at all. Maybe my sense of smell hasn't changed because I have never been a smoker, but it's disappointing when something really smells good to me, but then, I either can't taste it or it tastes awful.

Female, nonsmoker, 70, diag. 5/09 after tongue biopsy: stage IV. Left hemi-gloss. and left selec. neck disec. 30 lymph nodes removed May 20. Over 7 weeks daily rads. with three chemo. PEG removed 12/4/09 Am eating mostly soft foods. Back to work 11/09 Retired 4/1/11. 7 clear scans! Port out 9/11. 2/13. It's back: base of tongue, very invasive
surgery involving lifestyle changes. 2/14: Now speaking w/Passey-Muir valve. Considering a swallow study. Grateful to be alive.