Been in transit so haven't had a chance to answer.

Found the same thing Gary, Mark, about the not too well done beef, can deal with it fairly well. Something I found out last week was I was able to deal with lamb chops, apparently just fatty enough to have some decent moisture in them. Last time I had lamb was umpteen years ago and didn't care for it. Guess tastes have changed. Also goose or duck is good, kind of oily for some people but if it's cooked well it's pretty tasty. A few weeks ago went out to a restaurant with friends for what we call "rubber ducky" basically smoked duck. Between that and the Guiness to help wash it down, seemed like heaven. Have gotten a craving for chilli dogs for some reason lately. The chilli's not too hard to come by here, but a decent hot dog is-go figure. As far as processed foods, it's been so long since I"ve eaten anything out of a can, frozen food or jar that on the rare occasion that I have, it tastes like the packaging it came in.

WZ I checked the website on the Chinese herbal medicine, going to have to print out the article. Was in a Chines drugstore today, you wouldn't EVEN believe some of the critters they had in there in addition to the more commercially available products. Luckily they were dried and not still on the hoof. As it is, my wife makes some sort of soup out of a certain type of mushroom that goes give a good energy boost. Kind of an aquired taste, but ok once you get used to it. I'll have to get the recipie and post it.

This time around luckily I"m got getting any radiation to any area of the mouth, so no sore mouth, just very dry. One and a half weeks left, and feel pretty good, if not tiring easily.
Thanks for your thougths.
Bob