Random thoughts at 4 am
Weird Associations and Food:
I'm a poet so I have an associative mind, and it sometimes makes weird connections.
People going through chemo have a few things in common with zombies--our hair falls out, we like hot sauce on everything, we lose our brains, and we move kinda slow. (Thank goodness we don't crave brains. Lays potato chips for me. Sa-a-lt.)
Chemo patients also have a few things in common with pregnant women. Obvious queasiness , tiredness, your nose runs all the time. (Ironically, also my infected breast is swollen. Makes sense--my cancer is in milk ducts). Plus, on the social side, you sometimes have to contend with well-meaning visitors when you're too tired to move. You also crave weird food and then when you eat it, you never want to look at that weird food again.
And speaking of food, here are things I like to eat. Salty not sweet.
1)soups peppery or curry-like. And salty. Chicken noodle or rice. I put extra chicken in it to boost protein. I just had some delicious Italian meatball wedding soup in light broth.
2)plain and simple Lays chips. No baked. The thicker textures get to me sometimes.
3)chili if not too sweet.
4)potato soup if not sweet, but any heavy milk textures gag me.
5)salty meats like hot dogs and pastrami.
6)firehouse tuna sub for some reason.
7)I think that maybe I'd like fried chicken but haven't tried it yet.
8)Asian noodles okay if not sweet.
9)Eggs if they have pepper. Or hot sauce but sometimes certain hot sauces are too sweet.
10) Fruits do not appeal to me. But I should be eating them for digestion problems with chemo. Prunes are good and pineapple helps wounds to heal. Again I like salty. Give me Lays potato chips or Doritos over fruit any day!
Drinks:
Lemonade (that's about it in the early treatment with A&C
Ginger and lemon tea
In my later chemo i craved sweet tea. Didn't like the way artificial sweetners tasted.
I do drink coffee but not crazy about it anymore. One day I was in too much pain from shingles to even make it. Now that's feeling sick!
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