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"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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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"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 |
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"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 |
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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 |
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