Day +881 : The benefit of gluttony

I am fine today.

Many people told me that my blog is very “delicious” because it contains many images of appealing dishes :-) This makes them feel very hungry after reading the blog.

If you ask me the reason that I post so many foods here, I have only one answer; that is because I am gluttonous :-) And I can tell you that it is very good to be gluttonous. When GVHD hit me February last year, one part of my body that was badly affected was the saliva glands. My mouth was extremely dry and I had to use Biotene mouthwash regularly. In addition to this, I was forced to wake up a couple of times at night to drink water and rinse my mouth with mouthwash.

But now the saliva glands start to work very well, producing at least 80% of saliva that I need :-) Even though my mouth is still a little bit dry, I do not need to rinse my mouth with mouthwash anymore and I can also stand without drinking water for a fairly long time.

I believe the reason that makes the saliva glands to function again so soon is because I am gluttonous. The delicious foods that I see stimulates the saliva glands to produce saliva :-) What do you think?

On the other hand, the tear glands recovery still got a long way to go. My eyes are still very dry and I have to apply artificial tears every 15 to 30 minutes :-( Perhaps if I were a movie addict, my tear glands should already get stimulated to produce tears by now, but unfortunately, I am not :-(

I am going to see eye specialist in UH tomorrow to check the condition of my eyes. Hopefully, everything will be fine.

See you next post :-)