"Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
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> On 5/28/2013 6:42 PM, Todd wrote:
>> On 05/27/2013 06:37 AM, Janet Wilder wrote:
>>> I can no longer eat hot jalepenos
>>
>> Old trick. If the heat gets to you, rinse your mouth out
>> with a handful of salt.
>
> Thanks, Todd. I can't eat any hot peppers due to having had half of my
> tongue removed because of cancer. The radiation treatments effected my
> taste buds and left my mouth very sensitive even though the radiation was
> well over 6 years ago.
> The salt would just kill me.

I didn't know that Janet. I'm curious, were you a smoker? My BIL is going
through something similar and had surgery today to have cancerous tonsils
removed, and a cancerous lymph node. Were your tonsils involved as well?

Cheri