Thank you all for your responses. Gary, I thought the salivary glands are gone for good. It's good to hear yours came back! RileyMC: It will take a while to get your strength back. A fellow survivor told me about Campbell's Soup At Hand Velvety Potato Soup when I was where you are now. She said it was the only food she could eat for a while and it worked for me too. I still keep it around for snacks. It is in a styrofoam like container and it microwaves in a minute and a half. Tom J: I do comfort myself when I focus on the fact that the treatments that took my taste and saliva glands are the treatments that killed the cancer and so I appreciate them I don't resent them.