Last December I lost the ability to smell and taste…bet you can guess how! 😉
Every now and then I get a faint whiff of a smell, a mere hint of something, that lasts for just the length of time it takes to inhale a regular breath. As soon as I realize I can maybe smell something I take a deeper breath, I try so hard to get a second chance to smell, but it never comes. Whatever smell breakthrough I had in that one inhalation is gone, and usually not repeated again for quite a while.
The weird thing, as if that isn’t weird enough on it’s own, is things almost never smell like what they should. I thought I smelled gasoline at work one day, it was someone’s lunch warming up in the microwave. I thought I smelled something a bit sweet, it was the cat’s litter box. It’s confusing and makes it hard to pin point at times what I might have smelled unless someone is there I can ask.
Last night I was on the water at dragon boat practice. Usually in summer the water we practice on gets a definite odour. It’s polluted, there’s power boats all around us, and as the temps rise the E.coli numbers also go up, so ya know, that probably is contributing to the smell. I have been spared smelling the water this year, a small silver lining.
However, at last night’s practice as we were taking a rest and gliding through the water I smelled a smell, it was gross, it made my nose wrinkle in full ick mode, and I thought of course. Of course I get a breakthrough scent from this water. Of course I get a chance to smell for a second and what I smell is wide spread pollution and general grossness. Then the person behind me took a deep breath in and said something along the lines of “Oh that smells great!”
Turns out the scent was someone bbq’ing, it’s a common enough smell when we’re on the water. People on their large power boats, mini yachts I guess, or maybe not “mini”, I don’t know what size you have to be for the yacht designation. Boat size isn’t really the point of this story though so let me get back on track. Someone was cooking meat, I don’t know what it was, but they were bbq’ing meat.
I love the smell of bbq! I’m a meat eater, I enjoy a tasty bbq’d burger, hot dog, steak if someone else is buying it lol The point I’m trying to make is I enjoy eating meat and I also enjoy the smell of it cooking on a bbq. But last night to me it smelled disgusting.
Of all the things for my non-working sniffer to mix-up. sigh. Here’s hoping one day I get my full sense of smell back and bbq once again smells like bbq!
The Amazing Shrinking Woman 
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