What You’ll Drink When You Celebrate Remission
Your shift nurse, dressed in her usual cartoon-patterned scrubs and decorated Crocs, gently secures your IV with a clear sticky tape tightly wrapped with another layer of her signature colorful bandage meant to bring some joy to a stressful process. Animated, she updates you on the drama with her family and how much she’s looking forward to today’s lunch while shuffling through her cart for supplies.
After the burning pre-meds hiss through your IV, the nurse quickly flushes and preps your line for treatment. She informs you she’ll return with your medication bag, though you already know. You’re accustomed to the routine by now.
The smell of alcohol and latex wafts out of the small but cozy room as the nurse pushes the door open. Once she leaves, you calculate how much consciousness you’ll have left before the medication kicks in.
Memories and fantasies are efficiently cataloged in your mind so you can quickly select them for brief entertainment at each session. You decide to return to fill in the details for your fantasy about celebrating remission.
“Who will I invite to my toast? Where will I host it? Champagne will be entirely tasteless bubbles by the conclusion of treatment, so what will I serve instead, and will it taste any better?”
You sigh, “Taste.” Nothing is the same; enjoying flavorful food and drink is a distant memory. Now you’re worrying how you would ever enjoy a glass of wine as you once did.
Consider St. Supéry’s 2022 Dollarhide Sauvignon Blanc Cold Concrete Fermented, void of excessive oaky or steely residual tastes that could trigger nausea. Its delicate fruit-forward flavors quench the dryness that currently seizes the taste from your mouth.
And you don’t stop there; indulging in a jar of their delicious, tarty Dollarhide Peach Preserves, you pair it alongside goat cheese mixed with black pepper and sautéed onions to accompany salt-free bread crisps of your choice as a lovely charcuterie for your guests of honor.
It’s coming back to you — how all those salty, cheesy, and sweet flavors thrashed about before deliciously settling like waves meeting a shore, sinking into the tastebuds as the water does on the smoothed sand.
The nurse rushes in with a medication bag, attaching it to a machine that automates the administration of the chemotherapy. You’re becoming too tired to continue daydreaming as you feel the pumping of icy fluids through your veins.
St. Supéry sounds divine. A smile lazily stretches across your face at the perfect ending to this fantasy — you and the people you love toasting a glass of St. Supéry’s 2022 Dollarhide Sauvignon Blanc to renewed health, gratitude, and a tastier future.
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