food

Not being able to taste anything feels like quite a trivial thing to cope with in the big scheme of things, and it probably is, but it's such a pain.

It's right up there on the list of things we take for granted, and when it's taken away it brings right into focus what an amazing thing it is.

I am beginning to get back very slight traces, but only enough to differentiate between sweet and savoury, but only just.

There is no logic to it either. For example, yesterday I tried some of brother-in-law Dave's super strong lime pickle, nothing at all. Yet I can eat something with a very delicate flavour like melon and it tastes pretty much normal. I can eat a bowl of sugar puffs ( and I do, a lot) and the puffs are just like tasteless polystyrene balls but the milk tastes of sugar puffs! Weird. I can confirm that my wee smells of sugar puffs after I have eaten them so no change there.

Here is a list of stuff I have tried to eat and what they taste/don't taste like.

•peanut butter-glue full of sawdust

•crisps-cardboard

•crackers-beer mats

•all vegetables-absolutely nothing

•tomato soup-hot, thick water

•orange squash-mr.sheen

•opal fruits-pencil rubbers 

On the plus side, I can taste the following:

•banana nesquik

•smint mints

•melon

•sugar puff milk

Which is great, I'm just not sure it represents a healthy diet!