I now feel like my senses are sharpened....sort of like what they
say about what happens to your taste buds when you stop smoking (sorry, Tamara
(-:)
That *may* be so, but I think there's a lot of "grey area" there... :) I started smoking at 16+, 38 yrs ago almost exactly (April 2). And, if quitting would give me *more* of a sense of smell and taste, then it's one more reason *not to* quit :) My father quit smoking and *still* couldn't tell that the pickles he tried to make should be thrown out, and the meat in the fridge was about to start walking, and the toilet needed cleaning (*badly* <g>)... DH quit smoking years ago, and he still asks *me* to "pronounce" on whether some fridge item might be "gone" or "going", he still asks me to smell a variety of herbs to help him decide which ones will "mix well", and only the most-overpowering (to me) plants make any impression on him. Ditto DS, who never smoked at all...
It amuses me no end, when I say "this room stinks of stale smoke" and my menfolk just give me a bland and surprised look; even my stepdaughter, whose sense of smell/taste is sharper, can only tell when I'm actually smoking, not that I *have been* smoking in a room, even if to me it's like getting my face smacked with the stink (I like the fresh taste of cigarettes, not the stale smell of them. Which, alas, always hangs around me).
But, to come back to the subject... Great news, Jean and Vicki; enough to make me forget the raw (40F, windy, rainy) weather outside. Now it only needs Rose-Marie's good pathology report (tomorrow, I'm told) to make me believe that life is good and spring will come
----- Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/
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