bottom feeding successes

Emery,

Hope recovery is full and quick; but doesn't sound like your bottom feeding is too bad!

I had the Richelieu before (1999). Solid if unremarkable that year. I'm sure it's mostly Merlot, never met a Fronsac that wasn't.

Never had anything from the Coop de Sablet, the only Sablet I've had is the Trignon (red and white). But will look for.

Thanks for notes! Dale

Dale Williams Drop "damnspam" to reply

Too hard to predict, Emery -- everyone responds differently to chemo, though the one constant is that it ain't much fun. FWIW, tamoxifen is chemically and medicinally quite distinct: it's an anti-estrogen. Given the vast number of women who now take it (it also helps with osteoporosis!) I'd expect it to have fewer side effects, but Adele may be getting a much higher dose. Best of luck regardless!

Nice sounding wines, Emery. Fat chance that I'll ever see either in these parts.

Mark Lipton

You've got my sincere best wishes for a complete recovery for her. I'm sympathetic in the extreme as I had 10.5 hours of surgery in Jan of '03 followed by six and a half weeks of radiation for squamous cell in the lymph nodes of the neck. Prognosis is excellent, but the result of the rads was a big hit to the taste buds for at least six months (for a while even plain water tasted salty.) Saliva glands badly damaged, but a year later recovery is still progressing.

It simply means I must concentrate a bit harder on the nuances of the wine. And, occasionally I miss a few....but I did before as well.

Good luck.

Ed Rasimus Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret) "When Thunder Rolled" Smithsonian Institution Press ISBN #1-58834-103-8

] On Mon, 10 May 2004 23:19:46 +0200, Emery Davis ] wrote: ] ] >Well, the bottom feeding continues as SWMBO's tastebuds are far ] >out of whack. But only 3 more weeks of taxol, then recovery begins, ] >in theory. (Don't know if tamoxifen will have similar wierd effects. Mark?) ] >

] ] You've got my sincere best wishes for a complete recovery for her. I'm ] sympathetic in the extreme as I had 10.5 hours of surgery in Jan of ] '03 followed by six and a half weeks of radiation for squamous cell in ] the lymph nodes of the neck. Prognosis is excellent, but the result of ] the rads was a big hit to the taste buds for at least six months (for ] a while even plain water tasted salty.) Saliva glands badly damaged, ] but a year later recovery is still progressing. ] ] It simply means I must concentrate a bit harder on the nuances of the ] wine. And, occasionally I miss a few....but I did before as well. ]

Jeez Ed, that sounds like no fun at all. Glad to hear it is going well, though. Adele's prognosis is now very good also, things seem to be on the right track. She'll be starting a 6 week course of radiation too, it appears, after this chemo is done. Amazing progress has been made in these domains.

BTW, my Dad is now enjoying his first "black box" merlot, thanks for that.

Mark, you probably won't find the Sablet, it looks like it's for domestic only from the label, but apparently the Fronsac is possible as Dale says. I'd definitely recommend trying a 00 or 01 if you see one cheap.

Cheers fellows, thanks for the sentiments.

-E

FWIW Emery, My wife is a 10 year survivor. She underwent a lumpectomy and they removed about a dozen lymph nodes under her arm, then a long session of Chemo (the drug protocols weren't as well know then) afterwards she did 2 mopnths of radiation. No Tamoxifen due to the type of tumor that she had but her tastebuds did come back and best of all I still have her to keep me on the straight and narrow! :-) Bi!!

Now you're talking, Bill! I just have to figure out which bottle will inaugurate the newly awakened tastebuds... :)

-E

Initially she was quite sensitive to acidity in the wine and complained of a metallic taste so I tried to steer clear of high acid, mineral based wines (Italians especially) and focused on Aussie shiraz and Rhone blends with a high amount of Grenache. I also tried to find big, lush, over the top California wines both red and white. Bi!!