Sniff, Sniff
May 1st, 2008 at 6:06 pm by Susie
I’ve been smelling something bad in my apartment for about a week, but my sinuses are so bad, I couldn’t pin down the origin. (I was hoping it wasn’t a dead mouse.)
So I stopped tonight to pick up some groceries after work, and when I got home, I put them on the kitchen chairs to unpack them. After I cleared out the bottom of one bag and removed it, I found… another bag, one with a rotting steak I must have bought last week. Oy.
The last sinus surgery I had was supposed to fix this; I had a gas leak in my apartment and didn’t even know it was there, until a visitor told me. Not being able to smell doesn’t seem like a big deal - until you can’t.
perhaps just as bad as not smelling it…buying it but forgetting that you bought it to not even miss it.
I just buy what’s on sale, I don’t plan it enough to remember.
Now is a guy with a keen sense of smell
You have my full sympathy and empathy. Been there, done that.
I was supposed to have sinus surgery, but they found a nodule on my thyroid. Cancerous, so had that removed instead. Then, the ENT didn’t want to do any surgery until I’d completed radioactive iodine treament, bcz it dries out sinuses, along with other mucous membranes and salivary glands. Before doctors realized it caused cancer, radioactive iodine was used to “cure” sinusitis! A major ooops.
So, had my first treatment, lost taste for awhile, but for the first time in years I could breath easily — and smell things! (That bad, bad cat’s errant ways, for example.)
But, the infection came back, the sense of smell left….
And, now, my thyroid cells, which need to be wiped out bcz they may be cancerous, are not absorbing enough RAI for my local hospital to administer the amount I’ll need in the future.
But, I’m so sorry your operation didn’t really last. Friend had sinus surgery in the 70’s and it lasted for her for about 20 years, but then her sinuses got worse and worse, with terrible infections. She then developed asthma –not sure what’s happening now.
But, do be careful — try to keep any infection in check. Best wishes!