Good luck Ken. We are all in your corner!

Funny, coffee was the first back for me. Chocolate never did taste the same but I still went for whole milk lattes with one shot of chocolate just because. laugh

Second for me was pasta sauce so I bought bottled sauce and pasta and lived on 3 a day meals of that with a milk chaser. I am just now able to multiple gulp down an entire glass of anything. It is pure joy. I progressed to 4 cheese lasagna with sausage until my Otolaryngologist said, "Remember when I told you you needed to gain wt to make it short term? And I told you to eat everything you could find to add calories so your body wouldn't give up?" I answered, "Yes". He then said, "Well you can certainly cut back to regular food and portion size now." I asked, "Are you calling me FAT?" He replied, "No...but you are HUGE with that 50 lbs you put on!"

Ed

SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0
Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation
Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03
Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08.
Cervical Spinal Stenosis 01/11
Cervical Myelitis 09/12
Thoracic Paraplegia 10/12
Dysautonomia 11/12
Hospice care 09/12-01/13.
COPD 01/14
Intermittent CHF 6/15
Feeding tube NPO 03/16
VFI 12/2016
ORN 12/2017
Cardiac Event 06/2018
Bilateral VFI 01/2021
Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022
Bilateral VFI 05/2022
Total Laryngectomy 01/2023