Sniff sniff sniffity sniff, happysigh

[chanter1944]

This post brought to you by my slowly but surely returning senses of smell and taste, after a couple days of them being blunted, decreased, but not entirely absent which was, nevertheless, very distressing to me. Take the standard, then multiply it by a factor of blind person's sniffer being turned up to eleven. I am seeeeeeriously grateful to vaccines yet again, if they mean cutting the recovery time for the smell/taste issues connected with Covid this drastically. Seriously. Yesterday I didn't have the smells of my incense sticks (I'm nearly out, once I'm out of quarantine, I need to make a run for several varieties) and today I do. I proceeded to light some once I realized I could again smell it, just because I felt like enjoying its return.

I have honestly been walking around the apartment in between work calls these last couple days, sniffing whatever I could think of - candles, incense, the dregs of nail polish remover I'm shortly to use up, the peanut butter jar, spices, my incensey-scented shower gel, the container of cleaning wipes - and thanking God, often aloud, for each smell I could pick up. Today meant a lot of celebration! Celebratory Glass Nickel pizza tastes like pizza. Two days ago it would not have done.

Yes, Chanter's anxiety brain was having an unpleasant field day a minute there. It can now pretty much zip it.


I'm not leaving quarantine until at least Sunday, but I am definitely on the slow but steady mend here. :)

Comments

[mirrorofsmoke]

We felt this way soo much when we had COVID, but for us it took a couple weeks to fully come back.

[chanter1944]

*hugs offered* I'm glad it did fully come back for you! Mine appears to be on that road, too; there are a couple things that are faint yet, but it's a little better every day.

[muccamukk]

Whew! Glad to hear you're feeling better now. That sounds terrible!

What kinds of incense do you like?

[chanter1944]

It hasn't been fantastic, but it could have been so, so much worse, and I know it.

I'm a fan of all sorts of incense varieties. Jasmine is one, cinnamon is another, amber rose is a third. I picked up a bundle of orange blossom incense during my recent trip south, and it's lovely and subtle.

[jesse_the_k]

Hooray for your rapid passage through the scary zone of “what! not another sense impairment!”

[chanter1944]

Thank you! Darn right. One sense impairment is enough, and as the rest of mine are amped up in response to the absence of the one... Yeah, gratitude aplenty here that smell and taste are returning.