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Joined: May 2013 Posts: 11 | Will you please recommend a good cookbook for those of us who have been out of treatment a couple of months, but of course are still learning what we can and cannot tolerate. I am trying to get rid of my PEG.
Thank You,
Patricia
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Joined: Jul 2012 Posts: 3,267 Likes: 4 | There are a number of cookbooks named in this part of the forum, if you go to search or check the posts further below. I forget the names off hand, and too lazy to check my library, and have several of them. Easy to chew, easy to swallow, sounds familiar. SPOHNC, support for people oral, head and neck cancer, has two books also. Good luck.
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Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | This may help you with relearning to eat. Its probably all about the texture of food right now. Plus of course things arent tasting quite right at this time which makes it even harder. Keep trying different things as your sense of taste can change almost daily. One day something may taste like burnt cardboard and the next day it will be the best thing you have ever eaten. Beware, in another 2 weeks it could go back to tasting like cardboard again. Recovery is a strange time full of ups and downs and setbacks but you need ot keep trying different things. Here is a list of foods that are easier to eat. I hope this helps. Easy to Eat Food List
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Joined: May 2013 Posts: 11 | Paul,
I appreciate your suggestion, but I do not see any other posts about cookbooks. Truthfully, I am having problems navigating on this sight. I do not even know how to post other then in the reply section. Who can help ?
Thank You, Patricia
1/31/13 CAT scan right tonsil, thyroid, lymph node,brain 2/5/13 MRI brain-no tumor 2/15/13 surgery,biopsy,removed 1/2 tonsil. 2/28/13 PET, diagnosis Oropharyngeal cancer stage IV 3/12/13 PEG 3/19/13 chemo(7 total) 3/22/13 radiation(35 total) 5/10/13 last treatment 7/29/13 2nd PET scan- CLEAR!! 10/28/13 PEG removed smoked 20 yrs ago 54 | | | | | Joined: May 2013 Posts: 11 Member | | OP Member
Joined: May 2013 Posts: 11 | Paul,
Scratch the statement that I don't know how to post...just figured it out :-)
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