Oh my God--no one warned me how funny this topic was--I spit green tea all over the keyboard! Popsicle sticks. Now I've heard everything.

I came here with a question--when you lose your sense of taste, does your sense of smell go too?

My rad. oncologist told me I could expect my sense of taste to never be the same again, if it comes back at all (I think he's got a scorched earth policy planned for my tongue) and I *think* I have reached the point where I can deal with that (just so long as the cancer never comes back either). I'm eating all sorts of stuff I love to give the taste buds a good send-off.

But I would miss my sense of smell much more and if it might go permanently I just want to know so I can try to get some lilacs in the house in the next week or so.......