Friday, June 01, 2012

No taste at all

Another chemo note: I had been warned going into this that food might acquire a metallic taste. But that didn't happen.

What did happen is that food started to have no taste at all. A lot of my meals taste like cardboard and cotton ball sandwiches with a side order of foam packing peanuts.

The things that seem most edible to me are fresh fruit, especially watermelon, plums and citrus; and, oddly enough, Wendy's chili.

A doctor friend says tastebuds have a high cellular turnover rate and thus are greatly affected by chemo.

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