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aka-chmeee

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19. Had cancer which started in left tonsil and spread in lymph nodes along jaw...
Tue Dec 12, 2017, 06:08 PM
Dec 2017

4 years out, still experimenting with food. I have terrible time with whole wheat/grain breads (which is what I ate before) Now can eat some white breads but have best luck with sourdough breads. I remember being told that milk with meals would help but I find that any liquid is helpful. I no longer like beef (sense of taste screwed too) but enjoy fatty cuts of pork, dark meat from chicken and turkey (especially the back meat of turkey which cooked in the roaster bottom) and baked fish. Find that almost all vegetables work well and prepare a couple of gallons of vegetable soup in beef or chicken stock frequently and subsist mainly on that while it lasts. Smiled at comment on chewing forever, I tell my wife that I never get full, I just get tired of chewing. (Part of preparation for treatment was the removal of all my molars. I lost a lot of weight but in 4 years have managed to gain about half of it back and I think I have started to adapt to the new "normal" due to all the left over effects. At this point, it's not likely to improve and for the inconvenience and disruption to my routine, I must admit it is a hell of a lot better than it might have been without some damned good doctors and a lot of luck.

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While this is not my situation... PennyK Jul 2017 #1
It's awful what meat does in the mouth when you can't really swallow without chewing it to death. alfredo Jul 2017 #2
What about ground meat? Like a meat loaf with lots of filler? Almost Sloppy Joe-ish? PennyK Jul 2017 #3
Ground meat is the worst. alfredo Jul 2017 #4
Sherbet! PennyK Jul 2017 #5
Milk and ice cream makes me cough alfredo Jul 2017 #6
Made Baba Ganoush and just ate a bunch of it with WW bread. alfredo Aug 2017 #7
Pizza and a Greek salad? PennyK Aug 2017 #8
I might have started eating sooner, but I had an aversion to food I had to overcome. alfredo Aug 2017 #9
Yum! PennyK Aug 2017 #10
Potato salad is so bland to me. I might have to try the mustard variety. alfredo Aug 2017 #11
Remember, I was in a different boat PennyK Aug 2017 #13
I know a sweet lady that will take that chocolate off your hands :) alfredo Aug 2017 #14
I had been told that herceptin was "no big deal" with really no side effects PennyK Aug 2017 #15
Age has affect my recovery, made it much longer. Be patient. alfredo Aug 2017 #16
Bread is OK, but Pita isn't. Chocolate chips eaten one at a time is OK. alfredo Aug 2017 #12
That sounds delicious PennyK Aug 2017 #17
I quit smoking cold turkey in 73, and haven't gone back. alfredo Aug 2017 #18
Had cancer which started in left tonsil and spread in lymph nodes along jaw... aka-chmeee Dec 2017 #19
Today I had tomato basil soup with baked pita pieces, and a bit of cheddar cheese. alfredo Dec 2017 #20
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