[Sca-cooks] Ethnic was American Diet was Anchovette

[Elaine Koogler]

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

>
> FWIW, my own experience with chemotherapy patients is that there may  
> well be some decrease in taste sensitivity. My father-in-law used to  
> cook with ridiculous amounts of salt near the end, claiming he  
> couldn't taste anything without it. I wonder if there's some  
> connection with your late grandfather.

What you need to remember is that the effects chemo have depend on the 
kind of chemo being administered.  I've been on two different 
kinds...one administered by a continuous feed pump as a result of colon 
cancer...which had virtually no side effects at all, and chemo that was 
administered via shots the first two weeks of each month for six 
months.  This last was for breast cancer, and caused me to gain weight 
(which of course I needed), lose half of my hair and, toward the end, 
get VERY tired.  Admittedly, in both cases, I was very lucky...in this 
later course, I should have lost all of my hair and had bouts of nausea 
each day.  I don't recall my taste in food changing however.  The 
biggest change of that nature came when I quit smoking 20-some years ago! 

The good news regarding chemo is that research is ongoing to devise 
methods of treating cancer that attack only the cancer cells rather than 
our whole body.  Some pretty spectacular things are being worked 
on...and there should be better ways of treating this disease in the 
short term!

Kiri