Ok so my taste and smell are messed up. Ever since I got sick with covid a while back and got the strain with losing smell and taste, it’s never been up to snuff. I mentioned this to my Dr a while ago and she said that I could go to therapy for that, however all it would be is to expose myself to smells and it would gradually return. I would say that perhaps it is minimally better however my husband would tell you different as my spicing technique is much to be desired. When it comes to that I rely heavily on my husband to “get spicy”. He has a really good pallet in regards to that and I wish that I didn’t have to rely on him for that as sometime I would like to pre-spice things and well I over-spice it. Then it’s too salty, too hot, too everything and sometimes because of that it’s inedible!!! Then we have the dumbed down smell to deal with I still can smell but it’s not as on point like normal. Sometimes someone is like can you smell that? I’m like what? Something’s burning nope and then a few seconds later it hits me. However stronger smells that I don’t want to smell like the overpowering stink of a skunk, too much perfume … I get it right away. However the smell of weed to me is horrible. Instant down for the count migraine. We had someone in our (smoke free) building smoking it
and the cloying overpowering smell from their unit permeated the halls and seeped into our unit. Like me every time I open the door to go out the smell came in due to the vacuum effect of the opening the door into the hall it all came in and sat in our place. Opening windows
didn’t help as the outside was as bad as the inside. When your migraine pain meds don’t help and you are stuck at home with a migraine on the pain scale 10+ it really sucks. So what to do? You file a complaint and see what happens. At one point I so frustrated with the situation…that I was ready to just knock on their door and say what the “f” do you think you are doing in a smoke free building but instead I was nice and went through the process with the condo board and see if it helps. For now it seems like they stopped and then 2 weeks later the dumb asses started up again .… do you really think we can’t smell it this time it was like the sprayed air freshener and perfume all around the door to disguise it. Did you really think you can disguise that shit from anyone just made it stink all the more. Yet another compliant to the board…..and now we wait and see for now they have stopped but I know it’s just a matter of time before they start up again.
I’m feeling a bit melancholy ….everytime around this time of year I do. As it’s camping season and it hits me like a ton of bricks the memories and the many impromptu trips up north for the weekend to visit the kids at camp. Then back again to work, those were busy times and great times. Now I think back at them and know that I could not do that anymore without a good break in between. wow how life has changed into something totally different. When I think of traveling in a car for any long drives I can only help but to think of neck and shoulder pain and what the flare bear may or may not inflict upon me. It’s sad to think that just the thought of flaring could send me down that path but we need to be aware of that potentially occurring and because of that I am a bit afraid to travel a lot. Just the other day I went on an adventure with some ladies to pick up our scout uniforms and upon returning I was totally exhausted. My husband saw me when I came home and looked at me and knew just how tired I was. To think that I was considering going with them to a funeral visitation and mass today is something that I was seriously considering just yesterday makes me shake my head. I woke this morning and I felt stiffer and knowing where that leads to after I immediately said I need to cancel those plans. So i did for I needed to relax after our whirlwind tour. The weekend was busy and this week doesn’t look like it will slow down any…. That‘s just the way it is sometimes!! However if I don’t steal some pieces of time to rest we know that the flare bear will play. The question now is how many pushed buttons does it take to get the flare bear to flare? Not that I want him to but sometimes I feel like it’s inevitable. I can feel him creeping slowly into my shoulder and then up into my neck and that is all you need to get a flare bear party
started. I slept in this morning only to have the ringing of the cell wake me (my mom calling at 9am). To be honest I was lying in the bed before that kind of awake, assessing my body and it’s aches and pains. Due to lack of rest we have the shoulders going and neck pain radiating down into the shoulder area, and I’m like laying in bed going, do I really need to get up and function?? I’m tired, sore and achy. I wonder what on earth I have in the calendar today? Nothing ?? Great, it’s a recovery day!!! My mind is telling me to take a win but even I know that it’s the calm before a crazy weekend.
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