So this morning, around 7am, I woke after another fitful night of trying to sleep with the ongoing body aches, burning skin and persistent headache as well as some of the lingering respiratory effects like stuffed up sinuses and intermittent coughing. I took a sip of my nearby Crystal Light lemonade to sooth my dry, sore throat and, sadly, it was still just room temperature m'bok-tuk.
M'bok-tuk is the name I gave last night to this liquid that used to be known as lemonade because to my now fucked-up taste buds, it tasted like something... alien, like some weird concoction unknown to humans, crafted from materials not found on Earth. This didn't come off like a water-based sweet drink made with lemons (well, lemon flavoring at least) and, in this case, aspartame sweetener; it seemed like it was made with some kind of liquid methane-based fluid maybe (I imagine since I've never tasted liquid methane before, have you?) and the juice of the m'bok plant found growing exclusively on the planet where Covid is from. Oh yeah, that's now my theory. This shit isn't just unnatural, it's fucking out of this world unnatural!
Yes, my whispered fears from yesterday's post had come true. Flavors of things like this Crystal Light knockoff lemonade drink had morphed into something... else. So I should just get used to it. I should just give things new alien names and just become Covidese. They will eventually assimilate me anyway, it's obvious that's the intent of this virus (if that's what it really is) so why resist? Resistance is futile. I should just sip my warm m'bok-tuk and shut up.
I tried to get up for the day but my body was still not having any of it. I wasn't hungry even though I hadn't eaten since before sunset yesterday. Today is Ozempic day but even though that's a subcutaneous shot, I wondered if in this new reality I might somehow "taste" it going into my skin as I injected it and what it would taste like? I shuddered at the thought, just took my regular pill meds with a sip of water (which still, for now, tasted like water) and went back to bed. I'll do my Ozempic later.
I slept. And this time, I really did catch some good z's. Not great, but good enough. A good seven hours which for me is a miracle. Yes, during the height of the symptoms a few days ago I was getting chunks of 7 to 10 hours of sleep here and there but my body was in the throughs of its most major of battles with this shit so it was to be expected. I woke just a while ago at around 4pm though I still had the headache, the slight respiratory effects, many of the body aches had subsided and the skin burning was reduced... yes, there were signs of progress. Dare I say a light at the end of the tunnel?
I went to the bathroom, did number one and after I turned to the vanity sink, I looked at my decorative holding dish of small essential oil bottles that I have for my diffusers.
I'd been vigilant in practicing the recovery therapy suggested by many of the materials I'd read online regarding loss of smell due to Covid which suggested smelling essential oils periodically throughout the day to, like some sort of physical therapy, stimulate the connection from the network in the cells affected by the virus in the nasal cavity to the brain, I guess? Not really sure how that all would restimulate regrowth of cellular damage in tissue since I don't think viruses cause actual damage to the nerves themselves (or does Covid? and thus it's not really a virus and we're back to the alien nanobot/creature theory thing)?
I picked up the peppermint bottle, opened it, put it to my nose and expected the usual nothing, but to my amazement... IT WAS PEPPERMINT! Not as strong as it should be; this was a pretty full bottle of essential peppermint oil and it should be quite strong, but it was like toothpaste-smelling strong instead. I'll take it for now.
I went through the rest of the essential oils like I had in my previous post when I first discovered my loss of smell...
Frankincense...Very muted and strange, smelled more like gasoline
Tea Tree...Again muted but I got a hint of its woody scent
Rosemary...Yes! Pretty clear. Like peppermint, it smelled okay but it wasn't 100% maybe 80% or so.
Eucalyptus...Yup. Same! A little muted but there.
Lavender....Maybe 50% and sweeter than maybe it should be so maybe a little morphed or corrupted.
But now the piece de resistance, the Irish Spring deodorant stick...
20% maybe. But baby, it's not nothing, and it means things are improving!
All this sniffing got me dried out and I needed refreshment. Without thinking about it, I went to the kitchen, poured a glass, sipped from it and to my utter amazement and somewhat amusement at the uniqueness of the experience, the cool liquid slowly transformed as it made its way past my tongue down my throat from m'bok-tuk to LEMON - FUCKING - ADE!!
I swigged the rest of the glass in shear pleasure, letting it dribble as the last of it leaked a bit beyond the rim to my chin. AHHHHHH! I let out a gasp of ecstasy and disbelief!
When Covid gives you m'bok-tuk, you kick Covid's fucking ass and make it back into lemonade!
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!
