popping pills

Sitting in a restaurant the other night, my lips apparently pursed in agony and not really focusing on the conversation, my friend turned to me and said: "Why are you so averse to pill popping? Nothing you can take now is addictive so just take pills if they can make you feel better."

Thought about it and agree. But now wondering: took an anti-nausea, had a potato for lunch, slept, and have not even been awake for an hour and thinking of taking another anti-nausea which has to be taken half an hour before supper (which is likely to be another potato as no desire to eat anything but finding a boiled potato is edible when all else fails the test.) Is that a bit much? What the hell. Lemme put the stove on.... and pop that pill. Not even sure I am nauseous but have that damn chemo metallic taste in my mouth which makes me feel sick. Maybe time to do some restorative yoga too.

chemo and food

Forcing myself to eat a boiled potato - added some avo, touch of mayo, worcestershire sauce and tabasco sauce - as the only way i could take the anti-nausea pill was to eat something half an hour later. And a potato seemed bland enough and it is pretty nice.

Maybe not so hungry cos ate a coconut macaroon earlier. My friend Tania came to visit (it's day two after my second chemo treatment for breast cancer and off work for two days) and asked her to bring me a coconut macaroon from Fournos. That was my latest craving. Don't think I have eaten one for years but have noted them at Fournos. And guess what? Googled it and apparently coconut, easiest eaten in macaroons, are good for diarrhea so no wonder I longed for one.

Meanwhile, the meat craving has gone and am gonna give away the beef patties I craved and bought on Saturday. Bizarre. Every day a new craving and always what my body needs. And always a complete departure from what I used to like eating, before I started chemo. Was watching this food programme on TV today which showed freshly cooked salmon with a tomato and basil sauce. Now that was my kind of food - fish with a tomato-based sauce. Today I looked at it and thought, I have no desire to eat that now. And from what I have read, this change of diet is par for the course for chemo.

COCONUT MACAROONS AND UPSET TUMMIES:

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/mar/31/health/he-pharmacy31
http://www.coconutdiet.com/digestive_disorders.htm

TASTE CHANGES WITH CHEMO:

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/349065
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art36439.asp

what it can also mean to 'go for chemo'

Going for chemo (see my previous posting) can also mean that u start feeling sick. I feel bloody awful right now, nauseous but not getting sick. Don't want to eat but then ate so much this afternoon from the chemo they gave me with the chemo, also intravenously, that have no desire. Plus now feel sick.
The trouble is that the only anti-nausea pills i can take now must be taken half an hour before eating, and I cannot eat now.
Oh well. Sipping water and tea.