I feel miserable

[conuly]

and I have no sense of smell. Plus, I'm thirsty all the time. Blah.

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Comments

[wpadmirer]

I hope you get your sense of smell back soon.

[conuly]

SO DO I. Just chomped on a piece of ginger. Nothing. Might as well have been chewing on a potato.

[larryhammer]

Blarg. Sympathies.

[conuly]

Thanks.

[zyzyly]

Smell can be overrated, especially in my profession.

[conuly]

I like being able to taste things, and by taste I mean smell.

[kengr]

You've got two links run together:

'Jim Crow's Last Stand' In Louisiana May Fall To Ballot MeasureWhy Doctors Hate Their Computers

[conuly]

Fixed!

[gale_storm]

So, if anyone says that you smell, you can either agree with them forthright or say, 'Yes, and badly.'

[conuly]

I probably do stink. I need do some serious laundry, for real.

[elainegrey]

Hope it doesn't linger and you are back to yourself soon.

[conuly]

Thanks.

[greghousesgf]

the sex ed they're doing now sounds even worse than what they did when I was in high school! (and thank fuck I never had to sign one of those damn pledges, because I'm fifty six and I'm less likely to get married than a dead pope!)

[conuly]

Haven't you heard? Posthumous pope marriage is ALL the rage.

[archersangel]

hope you feel better soon.

i don't think any of my clothes are "flattering" & i don't mind it. i have an icon that's a quote attributed to gilda radner; i base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

[conuly]

A more sensible basis of fashion I've never seen.

[adafrog]

{{{hugs}}}

[conuly]

:)

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Awww. Sorry to hear; hope you feel better soon!

I highly recommend 'Fire Soup', which is ordinary chicken soup loaded up with as much garlic, ginger, cayenne and rosemary as you can stand, and taken very hot.

Hot ginger tea will also help. Get a fresh ginger root, mash up a couple inches of it, pour boiling water over it, steep and strain, then add whiskey honey and lemon to taste.

[conuly]

I hate ginger tea :(

Aaaaaaaaaalso it appears to be shark week in my pants? Geez.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Ah. Cayenne and semi-sweet chocolate in your coffee, then?

Dang, frickin' Shark Week; it's never a party. Sorry to hear! So very glad to be all done with that bullshit myself! Take heart; it's not forever. Anyway, by the end of the week, you'll probably be over your cold.

[conuly]

Yes, I'm choosing to be happy (ish) about getting both of life's little miseries out of the way at once.

(I also hate coffee. Hot cocoa, now....)

Seriously, though, I just took a spoonful of spicy fermented bean paste - nothing. Chomped on a chunk of raw ginger - nothing. NOTHING. Couldn't taste it at all.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Got wasabi?