Thursday, October 1, 2009

SWEET ANTICIPATION

One of the least painful, but most annoying aspects of radiation treatment, in my case, is loss of taste.
They radiated where my right tonsil used to be, and also the areas immediately around that. It messes with your salivary glands and taste buds. The dry-mouth is getting better, but a nurse told me it may take up to a month for my taste buds to start coming back. Then I read online it may take longer than that. Every case seems to be a bit different.
Anyway, I can taste a little salt in foods. I get even less of bitter and tart foods. And I taste no sweet at all. And love sweets!
So, I am making a list of sweet things I plan to devour once I can taste them again:

- M&Ms (peanut, not plain)
- Pancakes with real maple syrup
- The largest banana nut muffin I can find
- Smarties (Man, I hope I can taste sweets before Halloween)
- One bite from every kind of pie at Village Inn
- Caramel popcorn
- Coffee ice cream

And that's as far as I've gotten.

PLEASE, share any ideas you have. What are your favorite sweet treats??? And why should I add them to my list??? Convince me.

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