Coke anyone
Da; (that is Cajun for I don’t know) is all I could say and with that she gave me a little glass with some coke in it and I drank it with no problem. Then after a little while my stomach problems seamed to go away. All I could think about the rest of the day was how good that coke tasted.
Yesterday at the store I found my self buying a coke and when I got home my Son said Dad when did you start drinking coke. Ops, for the passed 9 years of telling my children how bad coke was fore them I had to think fast. With my children and wife looking straight at me I grabbed my stomach and said it is for medicinal usage. Glad my brain was working.
I am here at work thinking about a coke, my how our brain works when it comes to tasting something, it just wants more, I think I will buy just a little one.
Oh well
Hondo
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about coke or pop
Hondo
for as any type of pop the last time I had pop was about year and half ago and I just never could go back to drinking pop since its bad for your health plus it also adds weight to ya.
Only thing I can really drink anymore after cancer treatments is water or milk. For as anything else I just cant drink like gatorade or anything sugar in it just tease very nasty to me.0 -
Hi Timtimreichhart said:about coke or pop
Hondo
for as any type of pop the last time I had pop was about year and half ago and I just never could go back to drinking pop since its bad for your health plus it also adds weight to ya.
Only thing I can really drink anymore after cancer treatments is water or milk. For as anything else I just cant drink like gatorade or anything sugar in it just tease very nasty to me.
Yep it was like that for me for a very very long time could not drink anything except bottled water. You are right about it not being the best thing in the world for you as I always tell my children. But used as a medicine for my stomach problem I was amazed at how well it worked. Like anything I guess we need to do in moderation, I just need to keep telling my brain that.
Take care
Hondo0 -
Slippery Slope
Yay! One more victory. I remember how I missed my soft drinks (was brought up a Pepsi addict, switched over to Diet Cherry Coke then Diet Dr. Pepper). Was bummed out when I couldn't drink soft drinks, but a little pleased, because they're bad for you [caffeine blocks water absorption (sp?), sodium's hard on your heart, now they say "increased risk of cancer", and we all remember the "steak in a bowl of Coke" experiments). I was still very pleased when I could have an occasional soft drink. A few weeks ago, it turned into four or five soft drinks a day (Pepsi full strength) - time to put the brakes on. Now I'm back to having one from time to time, but only once in a while. I still feel a sting or something at the back of my mouth/top of my throat - doesnt' hurt a bit, but I wonder if it's the acid or the carbonation or what. I even wonder if I felt the same feeling before treatment, and just don't remember.
Oh - my one rule is no lone soft drinks. I drink water along with the soda when I have it. Dang - now that I'm talking about it, I'm thinking about wanting a glass - Root Beer, mmmm. Got a two liter in the kitchen - oh well,it's not cold, and I have no ice - I'll have it another day.
Oh - root beer was the first soft drink I enjoyed after treatment. I could taste it and it didn't "hurt" when Pepsi and Coke and even Sierra Mist did.0 -
coke or poptimreichhart said:about coke or pop
Hondo
for as any type of pop the last time I had pop was about year and half ago and I just never could go back to drinking pop since its bad for your health plus it also adds weight to ya.
Only thing I can really drink anymore after cancer treatments is water or milk. For as anything else I just cant drink like gatorade or anything sugar in it just tease very nasty to me.
Had to laugh at the coke or pop. You can tell who was raised North of the Mason/Dixon line. It always takes me awhile to get used to my relatives asking for pop when they come to visit. All pop is coke to me or sometimes I call it soda.
Debbie0 -
Cokes
Dr told me if I needed a coke to only drink diet because of the threat to my teeth. I don't drink either but do drink a lot of club soda because it helps me get rid of the mucus in my mouth. Glad you are enjoying one of life's little pleasures; you deserve it.
Denny0 -
Pop/Sodajim and i said:coke or pop
Had to laugh at the coke or pop. You can tell who was raised North of the Mason/Dixon line. It always takes me awhile to get used to my relatives asking for pop when they come to visit. All pop is coke to me or sometimes I call it soda.
Debbie
To me, being from the north it was always pop, now that I have been in the south for several years it's soda.
Unless you live in some parts of Georgia, Alabama or Mississippi...then it's an RC..maybe with a Moon Pie...LOL.
JG0 -
Old Wife's Tales....Greend said:Cokes
Dr told me if I needed a coke to only drink diet because of the threat to my teeth. I don't drink either but do drink a lot of club soda because it helps me get rid of the mucus in my mouth. Glad you are enjoying one of life's little pleasures; you deserve it.
Denny
Denny,
I like club soda actually..epecially with 100% welches grape juice...kinda like a grape soda.
You referenced not drinking coke to protect your teeth..my mother use to give me hell when I was younger for drinking club soda...insisted it would rot my teeth out...LOL.
JG0 -
Great to hear Hondo!Hondo said:Hi Tim
Yep it was like that for me for a very very long time could not drink anything except bottled water. You are right about it not being the best thing in the world for you as I always tell my children. But used as a medicine for my stomach problem I was amazed at how well it worked. Like anything I guess we need to do in moderation, I just need to keep telling my brain that.
Take care
Hondo
Look, we all are going to die, life is too short to not enjoy things, as you said, in moderation. If your mouth can tolerate it, go for it. Im pretty sure your chemo was the greatest for your health either.
As for your teeth, all you can do is the best you can do, my radiation is going to ultimately have the affect on my teeth that it's going to have, I brush and floss and all the things I can do, but ultimately, it will take what ever toll it is going to take. I would just maybe suggest, if you find it to be more of a serious concern for you, to swish your mouth out with some plain water when your done drinking a Coke. Or maybe even do it as your drinking the Coke so the acids dont sit on your teeth.
There is a list of things a mile long I still cant, 2 years out of treatment, tolerate, some I can slightly, but slowly as im consuming them, become less and less tolerable. It does keep you on the moderation kick though, I kinda like it, keeps me in check lol......
Great news though Hondo, that you can once again enjoy another little piece of normal....
Gravey0 -
G&TSkiffin16 said:Old Wife's Tales....
Denny,
I like club soda actually..epecially with 100% welches grape juice...kinda like a grape soda.
You referenced not drinking coke to protect your teeth..my mother use to give me hell when I was younger for drinking club soda...insisted it would rot my teeth out...LOL.
JG
It reminds me of early in the treatment when I kiddingly asked the rad onc if I could keep drinking gin and tonic. He said: "Sure! As long as you switch to diet tonic so you don't get the sugar and cause tooth problems."
Of course, he also knew that it was a moot point as it would not be long before I couldn't take the gin either with the burning in the throat.
Can I admit that I am just now getting to where I can enjoy a nice cold, weak G&T? What a pleasure in the summer heat. Doug0 -
I AgreeSkiffin16 said:Coke 8OZ Bottles
I don't traditionally like Coke, but the flavor in the 8OZ. bottles is different and I like those,especially Ice Cold on a hot day.
I was told that the formula or sweetner is different in the 8OZ. bottles..not sure of that though.
Best,
John
Same with Pepsi. When I was a child, we'd hit the grocery and buy a cart of cartons of glass bottle Pepsis. We did this until we couldn't get the bottles anymore. The Coke WAS tastier in the little bottles - haven't had an 8 ounce Coke in years.0 -
Changes in LattitudesSkiffin16 said:Pop/Soda
To me, being from the north it was always pop, now that I have been in the south for several years it's soda.
Unless you live in some parts of Georgia, Alabama or Mississippi...then it's an RC..maybe with a Moon Pie...LOL.
JG
(yeah, Soccer - Jimmy Buffet)
RC with Moon Pie is yummy! Haven't had it in years.
Funny you talk about North/South carbonated beverate nomenclature. Being a middle state Kentucky resident, I know folks who drink pop and folks who drink soda. I usually have a soft drink or soda.0 -
Ohh the power of Diet Coke - I was a junkeGoalie said:G&T
It reminds me of early in the treatment when I kiddingly asked the rad onc if I could keep drinking gin and tonic. He said: "Sure! As long as you switch to diet tonic so you don't get the sugar and cause tooth problems."
Of course, he also knew that it was a moot point as it would not be long before I couldn't take the gin either with the burning in the throat.
Can I admit that I am just now getting to where I can enjoy a nice cold, weak G&T? What a pleasure in the summer heat. Doug
August 2008, I remember the last day I drank a diet coke (of which I used to drink at least 3 a day) and remembered thinking that would be the last time - I enjoyed every drop.. it was a momentous 20oz bottle ... my doc said Id probably never be able to due to my radiation and the carbonated water would cause a burning sensation. He was right, the couple times I tried, it tasted awful and burned. Three years later..... about one month ago, I was on vacation stuck in a car and had ran out of my water and needed something to drink, so I took a swig of my mothers diet coke... It didnt burn and I just smiled at my mother, who was having convulsions at the thought of me drinking it to begin with.
I was giddy with happiness, not because I wanted to start drinking it again... it was the fact that I could. So just to make sure it wasnt a fluke, I tried one again last week, drinking it out of the bottle caused a weird feeling in my mouth, so I poured it over ice, let the fizzing settle, and Wahla...I enjoyed every drop. .... another milestone for the cancer survivor.. Now if I could just enjoy hot sauce again....0 -
about the coke or popjim and i said:coke or pop
Had to laugh at the coke or pop. You can tell who was raised North of the Mason/Dixon line. It always takes me awhile to get used to my relatives asking for pop when they come to visit. All pop is coke to me or sometimes I call it soda.
Debbie
I am actually from NW Ohio.0 -
High fructose corn syrup vs SugarSkiffin16 said:Coke 8OZ Bottles
I don't traditionally like Coke, but the flavor in the 8OZ. bottles is different and I like those,especially Ice Cold on a hot day.
I was told that the formula or sweetner is different in the 8OZ. bottles..not sure of that though.
Best,
John
You're onto something John!
Coke like we drank growing up was sweetened with real sugar but now in the states the Coca Cola you buy at the big box grocery or corner carryout is sweetened with high fructose corn syrup. Pepsi's the same deal, twice a year they do a huge promotion on 'Throwback' Pepsi and Mountain Dew, that's right: made with real sugar instead of HFCS is called Throwback now, it's official. I am old.
Mexican groceries sometimes have sugar coke but you have to read the ingredients, all Mexican Coke isn't sugar made. You can find the little glass bottles you described and sometimes the Coke is real sugar, sometimes not. Either way, like you said, somehow a cold Coke tastes better out of those old school curvy glass containers.0 -
Join the Chosen People and get good CokeGoalie said:G&T
It reminds me of early in the treatment when I kiddingly asked the rad onc if I could keep drinking gin and tonic. He said: "Sure! As long as you switch to diet tonic so you don't get the sugar and cause tooth problems."
Of course, he also knew that it was a moot point as it would not be long before I couldn't take the gin either with the burning in the throat.
Can I admit that I am just now getting to where I can enjoy a nice cold, weak G&T? What a pleasure in the summer heat. Doug
Every year, for Passover, Coca Cola makes Kosher-for-Passover Coke. They steam clean all of the equipment in the factory and then use a formulation that has only sugar (as HFCS is no-no during Passover, since it had a chance to ferment). Yum. I had a friend who looked into ordering it straight from the factory as she felt (slightly) bad fighting all the little old ladies in her local supermarket for the precious fluid.
Cola syrup, by the way, is an old remedy for stomach issues. I'm not sure it can take on chemo nausea, but I have fond memories of using local Coca Cola to quell some deadly morning sickness as we traveled across the Dominican Republic in a car (2nd kid - prefers real sugar to HFCS, so there might be some epigenetic thing going on there). Thanks for the blast from the past, Hondo!0 -
Hi GraveyGRAVEY said:Great to hear Hondo!
Look, we all are going to die, life is too short to not enjoy things, as you said, in moderation. If your mouth can tolerate it, go for it. Im pretty sure your chemo was the greatest for your health either.
As for your teeth, all you can do is the best you can do, my radiation is going to ultimately have the affect on my teeth that it's going to have, I brush and floss and all the things I can do, but ultimately, it will take what ever toll it is going to take. I would just maybe suggest, if you find it to be more of a serious concern for you, to swish your mouth out with some plain water when your done drinking a Coke. Or maybe even do it as your drinking the Coke so the acids dont sit on your teeth.
There is a list of things a mile long I still cant, 2 years out of treatment, tolerate, some I can slightly, but slowly as im consuming them, become less and less tolerable. It does keep you on the moderation kick though, I kinda like it, keeps me in check lol......
Great news though Hondo, that you can once again enjoy another little piece of normal....
Gravey
I almost forgot about washing the mouth out after drinking a coke,, it been a long time. As far as teeth they are already on there way out in a few months or so, but need to keep they are good as possible in the mean time.
Nice to enjoy the little things in life again
Hondo0 -
Soda waterPam M said:Changes in Lattitudes
(yeah, Soccer - Jimmy Buffet)
RC with Moon Pie is yummy! Haven't had it in years.
Funny you talk about North/South carbonated beverate nomenclature. Being a middle state Kentucky resident, I know folks who drink pop and folks who drink soda. I usually have a soft drink or soda.
In Honduras we always called it Soda Water; I am not sure why or how it got that name it is just way everyone called it. It also was a different coke then what we got up-here, very strong like pan-cake syrup.
Hondo0 -
Hi PanPam M said:Slippery Slope
Yay! One more victory. I remember how I missed my soft drinks (was brought up a Pepsi addict, switched over to Diet Cherry Coke then Diet Dr. Pepper). Was bummed out when I couldn't drink soft drinks, but a little pleased, because they're bad for you [caffeine blocks water absorption (sp?), sodium's hard on your heart, now they say "increased risk of cancer", and we all remember the "steak in a bowl of Coke" experiments). I was still very pleased when I could have an occasional soft drink. A few weeks ago, it turned into four or five soft drinks a day (Pepsi full strength) - time to put the brakes on. Now I'm back to having one from time to time, but only once in a while. I still feel a sting or something at the back of my mouth/top of my throat - doesnt' hurt a bit, but I wonder if it's the acid or the carbonation or what. I even wonder if I felt the same feeling before treatment, and just don't remember.
Oh - my one rule is no lone soft drinks. I drink water along with the soda when I have it. Dang - now that I'm talking about it, I'm thinking about wanting a glass - Root Beer, mmmm. Got a two liter in the kitchen - oh well,it's not cold, and I have no ice - I'll have it another day.
Oh - root beer was the first soft drink I enjoyed after treatment. I could taste it and it didn't "hurt" when Pepsi and Coke and even Sierra Mist did.
I never did the root-bear thing but I did love Cream Soda a lot, Guess I need to make sure the brain understand to keep it to a minim and don’t over do it. Don’t want a caffeine or sugar rush don’t think the body can handle it anymore.0 -
JohnSkiffin16 said:Coke 8OZ Bottles
I don't traditionally like Coke, but the flavor in the 8OZ. bottles is different and I like those,especially Ice Cold on a hot day.
I was told that the formula or sweetner is different in the 8OZ. bottles..not sure of that though.
Best,
John
I will make sure the 8oz are on list for wend we go fishing
Someday soon I hope0
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