Sense of Smell

I have been ill for the last couple of days. Proper ill. Freezing cold but sweating profusely ill. I am back at work today as I just have a cough and runny nose remaining. The blocked up nose has meant i have lost my sense of taste and smell. Eating food is mostly about enjoying the textures of the food for me at the moment. Beans are much less enjoyable to eat when you can't taste them - they are just unpleasantly textured mush. Losing my sense of smell means, apart from not knowing whether or not the fart i just did smells, that i have a hard time getting dressed. I generally use my floor as a wardrobe so in the morning as i dress, i will pick up potential shirts, smell them and then use them or not depending on the smell of the underarms. If its clean, it's a winner. If there is nothing clean i can go with the least smelly and use a bit of febreeze spray to make it nearly as good as new. Some shirts are too far gone to be worn again and must be put back on to the floor. Without any olfactory ability all of the shirts in the morning smell of nothing. It is a lottery as to what i wear. Nobody has said i smell yet today so i may well have picked a winner.