Oh my word, how I hate Sjögren’s disease! Because we don’t have enough saliva, our taste buds suffer. We either have distorted taste where we don’t taste as we should, or even NO ability to taste at all! That’s been my problem.
I used to eat vegan gluten-free pizza maybe once a month. But now , they all taste disgusting. At first, I thought the stores had changed how they make them… Then I found out what the lack of enough saliva does.
When people read ‘dry mouth,’ they have no clue the ramifications. And when I say “people,” I mean ME!
The only thing I can still taste properly is chocolate.🤦🏾♀️ Do not ask. Everything else is just to be endured.
That was my introduction to how I almost threw out a whole big pot of pasta. I made it with pesto but the taste was AWFUL! I used to enjoy basil pesto. But I was convinced I had made such disgusting food that nobody would eat it and more importantly, it wasn’t fit to be eaten. It would be punishment to make them eat it.
But first, I asked Amarissa to taste it. I wasn’t going to eat it as it’s wheat pasta, so I figured those who would, should. Just in case. My brain is so slow that as I type, only now am I thinking, “But surely the fact that she ate it when it was on the sides of the blender when you mixed it with spinach, the fact that she unscrewed the bottom of the blender to get more of the pesto from the base beneath the blades was proof enough that she she liked it! What’s wrong with you!?”
She said it was great.
But I wasn’t sure and asking my already finicky others who don’t eat all food anyway wasn’t worth doing as their tastes don’t reflect those of the majority. I waited for big brother to get back from campus.
He loved it.
I was relieved! I’ve been having back spasms as my body deals with worsening AS pain and my muscles suffer. To make a whole new plan after 6pm and a busy day straining my body was not going to be cool.
But man, I can’t trust my tastebuds. I see why I’m shocked they love the soup I hate when I taste it! It’s not them. It’s me!
PS. My attorney is getting ready to serve the divorce summons. The sheriff has ten days within to do it. I did not marry to divorce. Alas, I married someone who doesn’t think lies are bad. So he lied on our wedding day and thereafter. It’s weird. I’m asking the children for their maintenance plans -when you’re older than 18, you make your own requests, not your parent. And looking at them and editing them. They’re so sweet in how little they think they deserve. Eg R80 worth of data a month.
I’m sharing this part of the process because I have nobody who divorced so I didn’t know how it worked. Now the next person dealing with an unfaithful wife or husband knows how it goes. Give a broad overview of the maintenance you and the children expect and it will be added to fhe summons. So you’d better start looking at your costs. Not easy, because you have to separate YOURS from the grocery you buy for everybody.
Little things that took me almost a week to put together. When you’re creating your exit plan, start looking! I told him I bought a pressure cooker and the microwave now, in preparation for being divorced and not having the money to buy one thereafter when we now have to pay for yet another home’s rent, water etc. He didn’t complain. Which is good. I’ve eaten supper on many days only because Woolies has ready made food and I don’t have to stand over a pot when already in pain. (Seeing as we eat separately with my meals having to be IBS friendly.
They said I should write a book 