And a lot has recovered. A lot more closer to normal life !
- Full time office. I go to work morning half and work from home rest of the day
- Yoga, A teacher comes home to keep me motivated and on track with re-building my strength.
- First week after radiation, was miserable with entire mouth and tongue filled with blisters. Now all of them have healed very nicely. And I am back to normal food. Great progress in mouth opening too.
- Bodily energy is back to a large extend. The weight is off the sliding scale, and making an u turn. Hoping it to be not too much.
- Able to go for a couple hrs, to public places like malls.
However, the real improvement I want to write about is the "Taste". Radiation had completely taken my "taste buds" away. Everything tasted like card board / plaster of paris. In a time, where nutrition is essential for cell repair, the motivation to gulp in any food was very very low.
After the first week after the finish of radiation, I noticed taste of Milk in its original form coming back. A few days later, basic cereal groups powered and eaten with milk, then basic fruit groups (like banana, mango) in its fresh form, raw vegetables that have a flavor while biting it (onion, carrot etc),
white meat without much added flavor (Pompret fish grilled, or Chicken grilled, or boiled egg white).
The taste is not back 100%. But it is growing each day. 10% after 2nd week, 20% now. And most surprisingly it is happening in that order.
And what does that order signify ? Its how a new born, human baby is fed. Basically they are on Milk after birth, then basics cereals with milk moving on to vegetable and fruits which are not mixed with a lot of other things and spices. My dead taste buds, seems to be coming back to life as that of a baby would.
I am amazed by that co-relation !!
- Full time office. I go to work morning half and work from home rest of the day
- Yoga, A teacher comes home to keep me motivated and on track with re-building my strength.
- First week after radiation, was miserable with entire mouth and tongue filled with blisters. Now all of them have healed very nicely. And I am back to normal food. Great progress in mouth opening too.
- Bodily energy is back to a large extend. The weight is off the sliding scale, and making an u turn. Hoping it to be not too much.
- Able to go for a couple hrs, to public places like malls.
However, the real improvement I want to write about is the "Taste". Radiation had completely taken my "taste buds" away. Everything tasted like card board / plaster of paris. In a time, where nutrition is essential for cell repair, the motivation to gulp in any food was very very low.
After the first week after the finish of radiation, I noticed taste of Milk in its original form coming back. A few days later, basic cereal groups powered and eaten with milk, then basic fruit groups (like banana, mango) in its fresh form, raw vegetables that have a flavor while biting it (onion, carrot etc),
white meat without much added flavor (Pompret fish grilled, or Chicken grilled, or boiled egg white).
The taste is not back 100%. But it is growing each day. 10% after 2nd week, 20% now. And most surprisingly it is happening in that order.
And what does that order signify ? Its how a new born, human baby is fed. Basically they are on Milk after birth, then basics cereals with milk moving on to vegetable and fruits which are not mixed with a lot of other things and spices. My dead taste buds, seems to be coming back to life as that of a baby would.
I am amazed by that co-relation !!
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