So, I’m still here. Still alive, that’s pretty good. My son is too. I’m starting to feel better. I never felt that bad (as I said before, it felt like stopped up sinuses, and a cough), but, assuming I wouldn’t kill people if I were around them, work would have been rough to try to get through the way I had felt.
My smell is coming back! Let me tell you, life is a lot more enjoyable when you can smell and taste things. I noticed this morning when I took my chewable elderberry vitamins (Thanks, Miranda!) that, surprise surprise, I could actually taste it. This was weird, because I haven’t been able to taste anything since Wednesday. I then explored. I tried my breakfast (oatmeal with syrup), and I couldn’t really taste anything, but I told myself, Your oatmeal really doesn’t have a flavor—I then reminded myself, Yeah, but it should taste like something. So, I then tried some Sprite I had leftover (Thanks, Miranda!), and Oh my god I could taste it! Yeah, there was no denying it, things were happening in my mouth and it was more than just the breaking down of substance into a form my esophagus could swallow (eating loses a lot of the fun when you can’t taste).
Lunch was fun.
I had some leftover noodle and spicy sausage I had made the night before. When I had it last night I was fairly sure I could faintly smell the tomato sauce in it (I haven’t been able to smell anything since Wednesday), but I couldn’t really taste it when I ate it. I was aware that it was probably spicy, but there wasn’t really any flavor. Today when I had it for lunch, it was the most delicious thing I had eaten in 6 days. I had a coffee this afternoon, and you’d think there was a party going on in my mouth. I can only imagine what’s going to take place when I eat the Ben and Jerry’s in my freezer later tonight.