Rediscover the sense of smell

Of the five senses I had, I lost one along the way. Hearing (and that comes back with the implant but it’s not like before, it never will be). I had read (obviously I don’t remember where) that in the absence of a sense, your body strives to improve the other 4, to make up for this lack.

Here, however, I only improved my sense of smell. Perhaps the taste too (then there is the story of the UMAMI which I will tell afterwards). The sight seems to me to have dropped, the touch I have not noticed any differences.

In short, the usual deafness adventures,

The photo I put is from the food department of Harrods. The smell, or rather the scent of bread, is something that reminds me of my childhood, my grandmother (even if she didn’t make bread but she passed the bread bin early in the morning and when I woke up I found the bread still warm).

Indeed my sense of smell has improved, I can “feel” the scent of the rain that is coming that mixture of humid air and the smell of leaves, or when I pass by a pastry shop or an oven, I can smell the yeast of the croissant (strictly French ). Now not that I didn’t smell these smells before, but I have to say that I noticed a more attentive reaction than when I had all 5 senses.

The touch I must say that I have remained unchanged. I haven’t noticed any substantial differences.

My eyesight, I must say, seems to have worsened (I miss becoming Czech too and I’m fine). I would have glasses for rest … but more than rest I always put them on because I can’t read the small writings.

Then there is the taste. and here I have not noticed major differences. I must say that as a sense it has always been developed … and by the way I remember that traveling to Japan in 2017, after a Yakogai dinner we say that the taste saved me from subsequent embarrassing situations. In short, after that dinner for three days I ate only rice. The problem then was that that rice always had a strange taste, something that I could not understand and that was how I discovered umami.

However, I must say that I like rediscovering the sense of smell as a thing … there are scents that, if rediscovered, bring me back to old memories, old emotions, and I seem to be there, as if the world has stopped, as if nothing of this disease had happened.

ah, very importantly obviously the rediscovery of the sense of smell also applies to bad smells. here any further comment seems superfluous to me. I leave each reader their own imagination.