David - I always appreciate your updates since my son's progress seems to follow yours quite a bit. He is almost 13 months post Tx and describes his taste as being like the difference between a water color and an oil painting. He tastes everything but not quite to the same intensity. He still has dry mouth but it was so encouraging to hear of the recent improvement that you noticed in your progress, and makes me feel that there is hope for his taste and dry mouth to improve as well.