Finding "the pee spot"

"Sherry " wrote in message
...
do it the old fashioned
way, on your hands and knees sniffing for the smell. :-)


Blech. I hope I'm never reduced to this.

ROFL! Somewhere between all the health problems and surgeries I have had,
I
have completely lost my sense of smell. I realized this when I was loving
on
the dog, and my DH walked up and started gagging and informed he had
rolled in
a dead skunk. So now I am *completely and utterly* paranoid about odor in
the
house.

Sherry

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 visitors, 'cause I'd never know it!

Cathy

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

in article , Sherry at
wrote on 8/5/03 9:39 PM:

do it the old fashioned
way, on your hands and knees sniffing for the smell. :-)


Blech. I hope I'm never reduced to this.

ROFL! Somewhere between all the health problems and surgeries I have had, I
have completely lost my sense of smell. I realized this when I was loving on
the dog, and my DH walked up and started gagging and informed he had rolled in
a dead skunk. So now I am *completely and utterly* paranoid about odor in the
house.

Sherry

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

in article , Sherry at
wrote on 8/5/03 9:39 PM:

do it the old fashioned
way, on your hands and knees sniffing for the smell. :-)


Blech. I hope I'm never reduced to this.

ROFL! Somewhere between all the health problems and surgeries I have had, I
have completely lost my sense of smell. I realized this when I was loving on
the dog, and my DH walked up and started gagging and informed he had rolled in
a dead skunk. So now I am *completely and utterly* paranoid about odor in the
house.

Sherry

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

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 -

Did that too! I went in the house, opened bleach, Pine-Sol, perfume,
aftershave, nothing. It's really creepy and sort of depressing. I hope the
house never catches on fire or I never forget and leave a pan on the stove. I
can just see DH coming home and finding he happily watching TV or something in
a cloud of smoke.

Sherry

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 -

Did that too! I went in the house, opened bleach, Pine-Sol, perfume,
aftershave, nothing. It's really creepy and sort of depressing. I hope the
house never catches on fire or I never forget and leave a pan on the stove. I
can just see DH coming home and finding he happily watching TV or something in
a cloud of smoke.

Sherry

Thanks for your help everybody.

So, where do I go about finding a black light to locate the urine spot? Is it a
specific type of lamp, or can I just buy a blacklight light bulb and use that?

I have already tried the "get down on my hands and knees and sniff around"
method. I still can't find it.

Thanks again,
Jennifer

Thanks for your help everybody.

So, where do I go about finding a black light to locate the urine spot? Is it a
specific type of lamp, or can I just buy a blacklight light bulb and use that?

I have already tried the "get down on my hands and knees and sniff around"
method. I still can't find it.

Thanks again,
Jennifer

"Jennifer Thompson" wrote in message
...
Thanks for your help everybody.

So, where do I go about finding a black light to locate the urine spot?
Is it a
specific type of lamp, or can I just buy a blacklight light bulb and use
that?

I have already tried the "get down on my hands and knees and sniff around"
method. I still can't find it.

Thanks again,
Jennifer



I know Petsmart has the black light ("stink finder"). Other pet supply
stores probably have it as well, but any black light will do. Spencer's
Gifts probably has them.

Bill

"Jennifer Thompson" wrote in message
...
Thanks for your help everybody.

So, where do I go about finding a black light to locate the urine spot?
Is it a
specific type of lamp, or can I just buy a blacklight light bulb and use
that?

I have already tried the "get down on my hands and knees and sniff around"
method. I still can't find it.

Thanks again,
Jennifer



I know Petsmart has the black light ("stink finder"). Other pet supply
stores probably have it as well, but any black light will do. Spencer's
Gifts probably has them.

Bill

in article , Sherry at
wrote on 8/6/03 11:18 AM:

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 -

Did that too! I went in the house, opened bleach, Pine-Sol, perfume,
aftershave, nothing. It's really creepy and sort of depressing. I hope the
house never catches on fire or I never forget and leave a pan on the stove. I
can just see DH coming home and finding he happily watching TV or something in
a cloud of smoke.

Sherry
I hope you have smoke detectors!

Karen