Sherry wrote:

That happened to me after heart surgery. I have no idea why. I
didn't really realize it until a dog that had been rolling in a
dead armadillo came up to me and I was petting it. DH said "How
can you stand that?" And I said, "WHAT??!" I had no idea what he
was talking about. I think it's come back over the last 10 years
some. I still ask people if they can smell the litterbox(es) when
they walk in the house because I'm always afraid I just can't
tell. People normall lose their sense of smell with age, but it
wouldn't be a sudden thing. With all the trauma you've had to
your body lately plus the fact you've had a cold, I bet it's a
temporary thing. Hope so.

I was thinking something along the same lines. I didn't have anything
to back that idea up, though, so I didn't say it. But it makes sense to
me. Trauma to the body (and you - Tweed - have had a lot of it over the
past year) can do some weird things.

I didn't realize it was normal to lose some sense of smell as you age.
It makes sense - after all, vision usually gets a little worse, as well
as hearing, so why not smell? I have a pretty strong sense of smell, so
it will probably outlast me. Sometimes that's a nice thing - if I'm
someplace that smells good, I have a strong reaction. Unfortunately, I
have an equally strong reaction when something smells bad, so I have
less tolerance for that than a lot of people.

--
Joyce

Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living
creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of
worthless human lives. -- Albert Schweitzer