Chemo and Food

Never having been pregnant, I can only relate based on what I am told, but it seems that chemo does to your ability to tolerate tastes and smells much like being pregnant does.  I love coffee,  yes, the taste.  It was a while after chemo before I could drink coffee.  And fish?  Ugh, years.  And sushi??!  Double ugh and even MORE years!  And I LOVE sushi!

My sister-in-law, having just lost her Mom, came to help me.  She made the most amazing oatmeal/cranberry cookies and a cuke/onion salad that I love to this day.  And she was resourceful.  I still had a couple drainage tubes in and was wearing my boyfriend's shirts.  She determined that maxi pads, cut to fit around the tubes, made an excellent bandage,  And she was right! 

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