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A New Sense of Taste
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Title (Dublin Core)
A New Sense of Taste
Disclaimer (Dublin Core)
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Description (Dublin Core)
The memory I related is about the difference in taste and smell before I had covid versus after. It is still altered in some ways and did not return as it was before. I still find it jarring eat something that I used to love only to find that it tastes different and I no longer like it.
Recording Date (Dublin Core)
November 26, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Emily Brignone
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Emily Brignone
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST643
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
audio
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Food & Drink
English
Health & Wellness
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
positive test
taste
smell
sense
different
jarring
sensory experience
sensory
picky eater
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
Arizona State University
HST 643
Sensory History
taste
smell
change
Collection (Dublin Core)
Survivor Stories
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
10/15/2021
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
10/25/2021
05/29/2023
05/30/2023
06/27/2023
Date Created (Dublin Core)
10/15/2021
Interviewer (Bibliographic Ontology)
Emily Brignone
Interviewee (Bibliographic Ontology)
Emily Brignone
Format (Dublin Core)
audio
Language (Dublin Core)
English
Duration (Omeka Classic)
00:01:51
abstract (Bibliographic Ontology)
Emily Brignone explains her experience losing her sense of taste and smell after contracting COVID-19 and the ways in which her sense of taste and smell came back differently.
Transcription (Omeka Classic)
Emily Brignone 00:01
Okay, so I got a positive COVID test on Thanksgiving Day of 2020. That was not fun. But two days later, my sense of taste and smell disappeared partially. And as surprising as it was to drink cranberry juice and have it not be distinguishable from water. The most jarring experience was actually when I got my sense of taste and smell back. Things that I'd lost the ability to taste or smell came back different than the way I remember them. So sense that I really liked, some foods I really liked, like when my favorite candies, Reese's, suddenly tasted different. Reese's consistently tastes burned to me now. Some things started that smelled good before started smelling like cleaner. It was very different. And it changed what I thought was, smelled good versus what I didn't think smelled good. And what I like thought was a good idea to eat and what I didn't. What I did and didn't like I became a much pickier eater because a lot of things had a weird aftertaste. And they still do. There are a lot of things that I used to really like that now I just can't eat anymore. They don't taste okay. Yeah, that was it altered things because even now I can remember what things tasted like before and what they tasted like leading up to November for my entire life and what my favorite foods were and what I think they taste like. And every time I eat them, and they taste different, it's still jarring because my brain knows what it should taste like and it doesn't taste like that anymore ever since I lost and then got back my sense of taste and smell.
Okay, so I got a positive COVID test on Thanksgiving Day of 2020. That was not fun. But two days later, my sense of taste and smell disappeared partially. And as surprising as it was to drink cranberry juice and have it not be distinguishable from water. The most jarring experience was actually when I got my sense of taste and smell back. Things that I'd lost the ability to taste or smell came back different than the way I remember them. So sense that I really liked, some foods I really liked, like when my favorite candies, Reese's, suddenly tasted different. Reese's consistently tastes burned to me now. Some things started that smelled good before started smelling like cleaner. It was very different. And it changed what I thought was, smelled good versus what I didn't think smelled good. And what I like thought was a good idea to eat and what I didn't. What I did and didn't like I became a much pickier eater because a lot of things had a weird aftertaste. And they still do. There are a lot of things that I used to really like that now I just can't eat anymore. They don't taste okay. Yeah, that was it altered things because even now I can remember what things tasted like before and what they tasted like leading up to November for my entire life and what my favorite foods were and what I think they taste like. And every time I eat them, and they taste different, it's still jarring because my brain knows what it should taste like and it doesn't taste like that anymore ever since I lost and then got back my sense of taste and smell.
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This item was submitted on October 15, 2021 by Emily Brignone using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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