A week ago Sunday, I had a migraine. Now, this is noteworthy because I haven’t had one in years. I used to get debilitating ones in high school, but after Miss E was born they went away. Until this week.
Now, the headache is gone but I’m experiencing weird smells. Monday night I kept smelling natural gas – in the living room, not in the kitchen. No one else smelled it. Tuesday morning it was tomato soup. Not the homemade stuff, the canned stuff. It was seriously driving me crazy. And then I drove everyone else crazy begging them to tell me if they smelled anything.
Clearly, something is seriously wrong. Probably, I caught a brain tumor. I didn’t think they were contagious, but there it is. Thanks, Mr. P! Inappropriate jokes about medical ailments? We gots those. If we don’t laugh, we’ll cry.
So Tuesday I did the marketing -marketing is so much more posh than grocery shopping, don’t you think? and as I was loading plastic bags into the back of our van, I smelled formaldehyde. It took me right back to ninth grade biology and fetal pigs.
And do you know what my first thought was when I smelled formaldehyde? Zombies.
I need to get out more, because I actually leaned around the tailgate to look for one.
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OMG! That last sentence cracks me up….partly because I’ve done the same thing in the past….not looking for ‘zombies’ per se…..but worried about some evil ‘thing’ that might be back there…..( could be a stalker(or should I say stocker) …serial killer…ghost…etc)I watch too many scary movies!LOL
‘marketing’ is definitely more post than ‘grocery shopping’!
Does your husband have a brain tumor??
No, my 10 yo son (Mr P) has an arachnoid cyst/spot on his brain. We have to go to the neurologist for an official dx, but so far it looks like an AC.
When my son was about 3, he started complaining of not feeling good, and smelling smells that I could not smell. I immediately diagnosed him with leukemia, since my grandfather had leukemia, and smelled things that no one else could smell.
Turned out that DS had a bad case of constipation (he could pass a little gas, but not enough for others to smell.)
I’m diagnosing you with what we call stress. (My diagnostic skills have gotten better over time.)
Could you be pregnant? Sometimes smelling weird stuff is a symptom.
Nope, not pregnant.
Migraines. My are food triggered and they are under control if I stay away from the triggers, but I always smell rotting fruit and I see double right before I get them. I have a friend that finds her migraines mess with her senses for a couple days after.
I was thinking pregnancy too!
Everytime I’ve been pregnant I develop a bionic nose … I can smell dust for crying out loud!
Hope it goes away for you soon.
“Marketing” does sound more “posh” (but not in the Victoria Beckham kind of way) than “dragging oneself to the grocery store to get the gosh darn shopping over with” (this is what I do, not mere ‘shopping’ when you have both chronic pain and chronic fatigue), but ‘marketing’ as a term takes me back to the days I was employed as teller/outside sales rep by the Total Cluster F*** Bank (MHMama can verify that the bank at which I worked WAS named ‘TCF’ and even though TCF insisted the acronym meant something more innocuous and bank-like, that was the name bestowed upon the organization by MHM’s former landlord in the Denver area, and was a much more descriptive name for that company). Anyway, as such, just to think of myself as a “marketer” is unconsciously avoided!
AND – as a former customer and employee, I entreat all citizens of BloogyLand NEVER to open an account with TCF. JUST DON’T! YOU WILL REGRET IT, if not at first, then with one ridiculously high fee after another.
When in doubt, ALWAYS blame the zombies!
Are you sure you’re not pregnant? During my first pregnancy I smelled such a horrible smell in my house I literally could not step foot (or nose) inside of it for months. I lived with dh’s grandmother, then my grandmother, then my MIL. Everyone thought I was crazy because no one else could smell anything.
I laughed about everyone guessing you are pregnant because I’m dealing with a super strong gag reflex over the past week and that is my #1 early pregnancy symptom. But I’m certainly not expecting either!