Re: The end of my playing days.
Originally Posted by
Ivan Kelsall
Hi Doug - The 'taste' thingy is total crap !!!. I'm going to embark on a diet of hot/spicy & Pickled types of food. The ONLY things that have tasted 'real' so far are pickled foods such as Pickled Mussels / Fish (tinned Tuna mixed with a gallon or so of vinegar/salt/pepper), & i'm going to try some VERY highly spiced roast Pork spare ribs today. They'll have to be at least Jalapeño heat,otherwise the way my taste buds are,i'll never taste them. Plenty of smoked Paprika & Garlic as well should swing it ?. Even my very strong morning cup of Coffee tastes bland. I suppose that mainly - it's about making sure that i do eat something. At the moment, apart from feeling hungry & wanting to eat,i could do without the hassle of crap tasting food. Stick to the Jack Daniels my inner self tells me (LOL !). Realistically,i very rarely drink spirits of any sort,although i do like JD !. They hit my stomach like a Mac truck on steroids !!!. I had a drink of Cognac mixed with Ginger Ale a couple of nights ago,hoping for some 'taste' & i might as well have been drinking water.
I, too, veered toward the hot/spicy foods as my taste buds disappeared, but sadly by the later rounds even that wasn't enough. I couldn't taste salt or hot stuff, either one. It became a matter of preferring to force a bit of food down my throat each day than to be hospitalized. The only good thing was that my appetite was gone as well, so at least I wasn't fighting hunger.
I don't drink at all, so I was intrigued by your experience with Cognac and Chemo-reduced taste buds. Sorry that didn't work either!
Doug Brock
2018 Kimble 2 point (#259), Eastman MD315, Eastman MDA315, some guitars, banjos, and fiddles
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