Thank you so much for all the advice! Christine, I will make sure to try that chocolate shake. I am getting plenty of liquids these days, but calories are a bit harder.

The thing about the taste is, it was already messed up from TORS (couldn't taste some/most sweets) and it recovered a little, but never quite right. So now it started getting worse, plus I can not taste salt anymore either. I can taste bitter/sour just fine, too bad those did not go away first. I really hope water will keep tasting normal.




36, female, left tonsil HPV+ SCC, T2N1
8/28/13 SCC in left tonsil
9/12/13 surgery:TORS and selective neck dissection (levels II-IV), 23 nodes removed
9/18/13 post surgery biopsy: 2mm clear margins, a 7mm lymph node positive in level IV, no ECL
10/28/13 rad begins, 30 treatments, tomotherapy
12/09/13 radiation ends!
2/10/14 papillary thyroid cancer
2/26/14 PET shows clear neck other than thyroid cancer, but with high uptake in an ovarian cyst
2/27/14 thyroidectomy
3/5/14 pelvic ultrasound