You know I'm used to pain, I have some all the time. Some days are a whole lot worse than others and some headaches can rage on at high gear for days on end, but I don't always get sick with it. That comes when it damn well feels like it and I never know when that will be. It is the worst. Because I will get sick just smelling something.
I'm over sensitive to odors at the best of times, so, imagine my consternation when Dad comes home from work this morning and decides he'd like to sit across from me and enjoy a can of sardines. I'm barely through my coffee and this man is breathing oily fish fumes. At me. He doesn't realize I'm getting ready to pray to Blargle the great porcelain god.
The dog would like to lay with me, but...nay! nay! You are hot, doggie and I can't have you anywhere near me! Besides, I know you. You will start out laying at the bottom of the bed like a good dog, but the minute I fall asleep, you'll work your way up until I roll over and wake up with a dog face staring at me from the other pillow. Dog breath, and yours especially, is not something I want to wake up to, thanks.
Now I have to cook a supper that I will not eat. What can I make that will be least offensive? Ah, I know! Potato soup. Even the onions smell over strong to me, but everyone else assures me that it smells yummy. Well, good, good, I'm glad...I hope this passes and I might have some later.
The good thing is that this never lasts long, the bad thing is that if anybody sprays anything with fragrance before it does, I will freak right the fuck out at them...right after I get done puking.
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How is everybody this week?
I'm feeling a bit better.
Moved in this weekend
Still have tons to unpack, and I need to buy some furniture pretty soon or else we don't really have a place to sit and eat. The washing machine that was supposed to work doesn't, and the property manager isn't calling us back. So today has been a little bit SNAFU and my husband is sick so he's a grumpy bastard :p
still...
your own place! Congrats~~
oh man - i totally get what you mean about smell...
my nose is ultra sensitive... i can smell shit through shut windows and walls several rooms over... and i am sensitive to everything... for things like shampoo/cond and lotions and soap and deoderant, when i find something that doesn't give me a major headache or nauseous, i stick with it... and detergent and fab softener - it's natural no smell stuff... perfume - feh - it's been years...
there are a few things that don't smed my senses into GAH, and for those things - i am grateful. i do love things that smell good, i just wish my body liked them all too... sigh...
yeah, I have a few things that
are pthalate free that smell good and I stick with them. I am almost out and too broke to get more now tho, so I'm skimping on em.
i hear ya... i can milk just about anything down to the very
very very last drop.... poor teaches ya that... it's a good skill, but a sad way to learn...
interesting...for me it's hearing
Despite having played in rock n roll bands for a very long time...cough cough...I can still hear lots of stuff that other people can't. Sometimes I have a hard time falling asleep because the neighbor's heater is too loud, or the air conditioner, or the fountain. Our "chandelier" (that's a light fixture with six bulbs in it) is turned on by a switch that makes noise. It's very high-pitched and, apparently, I'm the only one who hears it but it's there. I know it's there because it gets louder the closer I am to the switch.
Hay fever has stopped up my nose pretty good so I'm missing a lot of smells. But sound...yikes.
oh, my husband is a musician.
I've spent many nights in really loud bars, but still I can have trouble with sounds. And horns, sometimes the sound of horns cuts through my head like a knife.
I had a temporary experience with taste
When I found that, 2 years later, the little bastard Lyme spirochetes were still lurking in my system, ready to attack the moment my immune system took a break, I administered to myself a regimen of increasingly strong herbs. One herb is known to create a "bitter taste". That sounds a bit inconvenient, doesn't it? I did not know before it happened that I would rather crawl on glass than have a bitter taste. When I reached the megadose level, the bitter taste suddenly appeared and hung around for a couple of weeks. How long can I live without eating or drinking, I soon began to wonder.
I have a wonderful memory from childhood of ripe plums from a tree in our . . .well, technically our neighbor's . . . yard, and I've wished I could eat truly ripe plums ever since. Guess what. During these two weeks I was in a house with a plum tree right out the door just dripping with huge, juicy ripe plums. I knew they were delicious because I ate a few the day before the bitter taste set in. How to compare watching those plums just hang there, theoretically so delicious and actually so bitter. That's how I learned what a huge effect these things have. But that is not nearly so global as smell.
I'm glad you're feeling a little better.
Is there anything that can
match the taste of that remembered fruit you plucked ripe as a child? For me it was raspberries.