^^^^^^ You should see the goofy animated emoticon OEQuoteFix puts
for that.  :)  Made me giggle.

Somewhere between all the health problems and surgeries I

Ugh.  I can't imagine you didn't smell skunk.  lol  You should feel
good about that cos who cares what others smell when you don't have
to.  ;)

Hey, another one! ;-)  I lost my sense of smell a couple of Christmases ago,
when I had a whopping great cold.  I didn't realize it till a couple of
weeks later when I was in Body & Bath, shopping for my niece's b'day, &
couldn't smell *anything* when I opened 2 of the bottles!  Went home &
sniffed vinegar & bleach - nothing at all.  Went to an ENT, who checked to
make sure nothing awful - like a brain tumor - was causing it, then he sent
me to a sensory clinic.  Got tested for it - tons & tons of samples tested;
~80% gone.  A *little* more has returned in the last year or so (I was told
that if it's going to return, it'll do so within two years; after that it's
probably a lost cause), but what I do have is mostly aberrant.  I used to
love the smell of beebalm/monarda, for example, which grows in my garden -
but now it smells icky.  Can't smell most bad stuff at all, but can't smell
most good stuff, either: lilies & roses, newly-cut grass, for example -
nada.   Btw - I can smell skunk just a little - barely a whiff - but it has
a faintly sweet odor now.  Not recognizable as "skunk", at all.  I just hope
to heaven my garbage doesn't get stinky before garbage night each week -
could be embarrassing re: visitors, 'cause I'd never know it!

Cathy

--
"Staccato signals of constant information..."
("The Boy in the Bubble")  Paul Simon

LOL! My grandfa did not have a sense of smell and my sister dated a fellow
who lost his after an accident with his head. But in some ways it could be
handy!

Karen