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| | Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 4 "OCF Canuck" Member | OP  "OCF Canuck" Member
Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 4 | I'll descibe my situation and invite everyone who is in similar circumstances, to offer suggestions.
I'm a 10 year survivor of Squamous Cell Carcinoma. A Radical Neck Disection and a full course of radiation, followed the diagnosis. The radiation destroyed my gums, taste buds and saliva. I live on generic meal replacements as the main brands are overpriced and taste like shi+! The remains of my taste buds are friendly with the sweet side but the savoury side is out of the question.
I drink an herbal tea daily and have since the original diagnosis. Also have a low speed juicer which I use daily to make fresh fruit juice and nut/seed drinks such as almond and sunflower seed milks.
I'm curious about how others with a similar history nourish themselves.
Life is what occurs while we are making other plans!
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Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,116 | I am still drinking ensure, ice cream and carnation instant breakfast milk shakes....waiting for word on a biopsy. Flap side is very sore.
Diagnosed May 2002 with Stage IV tongue cancer, two lymph nodes positive. Surgery to remove 1/2 tongue, neck dissection, 35 radiation treatments. 11/2007, diagnosed with cancer of soft palate, surgery 12/14/07, jaw split. 3/24/10, cancer on tongue behind flap, need petscan, surgery scheduled 4/16/10
---update passed away 8-27-11---
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