Living with no sense of smell

 

There are times when, you have to wonder what life is like for other people who have their full senses when I am missing two of them.

Something that would smell nice

A week ago I had cleaned up a milk spill after I had touched a stationary object with my pallet causing the milk crates full of milk to topple over. I had used a machine that sucks the water off the ground. I never emptied the machine of its milky goodness.

 

The spill that started it all

Three days later I was back at work and one of the cleaners comes up to me and wanted me to empty the machine that had sat unused since that fateful day. He knew it was me and wanted to make it my problem. He showed me the liquid that was now basically cottage cheese that was really curdled. We took it out the back to clean it out, while the cleaner stood outside the bin room gagging while I poured the lumpy mess out of the catcher and washed it out with warm water. All the while I was laughing as I could hear him gagging at the smell. I was handling the stuff and couldn’t smell what ripeness was wafting through my nose.

The picture you can smell. Cottage cheese curdled milk

 

While I laugh about such events, it isn’t easy being side lined from experiences like a nice succulent meal full of exotic herbs and spices, or someone that smells really nice and fresh. There are upsides and downsides to not having a sense of smell or taste. Just annoying that I don’t have both. I have no idea if milk is off outside of it being lumpy, food I would not have a clue, nor even with human waste as I couldn’t tell you what it was. Is that water on the floor or is it something else entirely giving off fumes like some paints. I cant tell if someone has had a cigarette or if they smoke unless I visually see it.

 

Its something I have had all my life so I am not too worried, but I still enjoy eating food and trying new things. The little things like the smell of curdled milk that had become a solid that has me thinking. I don’t let things like that get me down.

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