You know when you have a cold and your nose is stuffed so
you have chicken soup with chicken and corn and beans and noodles and it’s
going to be salty goodness on your throat and sinuses? You put the
spoon in your mouth and wait for the taste bud explosion.
And nothing. No taste. No salt, no garlic, no
corn, no nothing.
That’s what chemo taste buds are like.
Sometimes.
It can be where you taste absolutely nothing.
Cardboard. Texture. Hot or cold. That’s it.
Those are the good days.
The bad days are when you go to eat something you know what
it is supposed to taste like – and it doesn’t taste anything like that.
Most days fall in this category.
Take Chex Mix. I make this stuff by the vat.
Cheetos, chex mix, pretzels, oyster crackers, butter, Johnny’s salt, all sorts
of goodness. Can’t even describe the taste after chemo. Not
metallic, not cardboard, minerally. In other words – gross.
They say try foods you don’t normally eat. There
is some credit to this. We’ve lately gotten a hold of beets. Beets. Never
been on the menu, but “they’re good for you.” Gone through two cans
since chemo started. Only problem with this theory is that you don’t
know if it will taste good, so you don’t want to try it. Which just
leads to another circle because the food you know what it tastes like, doesn’t
taste anything like what it’s supposed too.
On the flip side, my go-to is salt, not chocolate.
That being said, last night I opened one of the (many) Godiva chocolates that
we swiped from the Costco vendor when she wasn’t looking. Took one bite
thinking the rest would go to waste. Let it melt in my mouth, sat down in
the chair, got up out of the chair, walked over and ate the rest of the
chocolate. OMG, now I get people’s chocolate cravings!
That being said, I tried my usual bowl of Ruffles salted,
ridged potato chips. Nothing. No salt, no drooling, no
goodness.
No good.
They say this goes away after chemo. I see people who
have had chemo and they don’t seem to have these aversions. Here’s
hoping!
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