Well this sucks. I've been out of the hospital for nearly a week and I still feel like shit. My mouth and jaw hurt like hell for a few days and I hardly ate or drank at first. That caused me to be dehydrated and made my total body soreness and being weak feel that much worse. Right now, my mouth feels a lot better (meaning I can eat without the instant flash of pain that I mentioned from my first chemo). I can't taste anything really. My entire mouth feels like I burned it on pizza. Hopefully tastes will return soon. Its no fun to eat and not taste things. I've been eating a lot of really bland foods just so I'm not disappointed when I bite into them and I taste nothing,. All I can taste is texture, if that makes any sense at all. I can taste slimy, gritty, sugary, slippery... . I tried eating cookies last night (my favorite). It was so sad. It tasted like I was eating sand. No taste whatsoever. I can taste certain things though. Its really wierd and random too. I ate grapes this morning, and they tasted like grapes. I was really happy.... so happy, in fact, that I ate every single one of them just because I could taste them. Wierd hey?