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

[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.