For me as well. Started losing taste around the second week, and by the third week, it was gone, and then everything tasted terrible. Oatmeal, peaches, and Ensure was my diet for weeks 3-5. By week 6, I was strictly on a Strawberry Ensure Plus and 4 scoops of icecream milkshake diet. I am now 12 days out of radiation and still on the Ensure, but hoping for some real food by Thanksgiving.

Good luck to both of you, and remain VERY strong for your brother. It will get difficult, and possibly very difficult to eat and swallow. But remember that it will get better a couple weeks after radiation is done.

Dan