Tammy, quick question -

Do you like your food extremely hot? I have this "thing" about hot food - if it's not right-out-of-the-oven-hot, I won't eat it. In doing this, I know I've damaged some of my taste buds - my great Aunt did the same thing to her tongue, she would only eat her food extremely hot, and after years and years of literally "burning" her tongue, she lost close to all of her sensation in her taste buds and couldn't taste food anymore.