Pacitaxol and taste loss

Thanks, agree with you totally,  food is so much part of my life, I love cooking and entertaining  ( thought not done much of that either as too tired !) and it’s like torture after 5.5 months of taste disturbances , i feel like my teeth are about to fall out.... I can’t wait until I can taste  nice food again.  I still have surgery and radio to go, but in three weeks, I will have completed the first bit of my breast cancer triathlon!!! Friends keep thinking it all over, after this six months... I am also finding it hard to relate to my old friends as only someone who has been put through this bloody mixer will appreciate how bloody awful it really is, day in, day out.  I really fucking hate cancer. I think people avoid me in the street, and I must admit I do avoid bumping into people too, as I can’t really say how I feel and I have to put on the brave cancer lady face.
I don’t know how I am ever going to function normally with a group of friends/ aquaintances again, sorry for the rant but I feel this is a very lonely ‘ journey ‘ or place to be. 
My only saving grace is work people have been great, and treat me as they did before, well nearly.