Couldn' think of a good title. I am breatrhing a little better, but it is still just as bad or worse thqn before surgery. I have no energy. The hardest part is attitude - I can feel something pulling me down into depression. I am resisting it.
I finally learned the official word for having no sense of smell - anosmia.
I am an ANOSMIAC. I love it - it sounds like maniac.
I asked the surgeon if there was any anatomical reason why I had no sense of smell. He said that he could see no injury, etc. Congenital Anosmia is typically caused by a virus - more then one can do it - even the common cold.
My Doctor said that even if the sensory patch existed now, there would be so little airflow into that region that I wouldn't smell much anyway.
The Suegeon added that a sense of smell is something that developes after you are born. The metabolical environment for that development is over. Even if I had the sensors and airflow could get to them, my brain would not form the initial pathways that allows us to distinguish between smells. It would not be like a blind man suddenly being able to see later in life.
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