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I have experienced a unique and actually interesting side effect from this antibiotic, which I have never taken before.
they call it "smell/taste perversion". Supposedly, the meds commonly reduce smell and taste...ut for me...it has amplified it to a crazy degree.
I didn't realize it was the meds right away until it dawned on me the peak of the effect occurs within the first 6 hours after taking the pill. It has been constant over all, but strongest then.
the first day I was being driven insane by what I thought was an imaginary burnt plastic smell. I later discover a cig burn on the couch pillow...literally 6 feet away. Crimson couldn't smell it unless she had it up to her nose.
I can smell WAAAAY too much. The first day it was downright nauseating and unpleasant...it was the day before trash went out. I could smell it...three rooms away, in the can. I could smell wet towels in the bathroom. I could smell the utterly wretched overall smoke smell left in this house from years and years of my dad smoking here. I could smell dust, cats, cat boxes. Ripe banana scent near made me puke. Even the flowers on the table made me feel queasy, simple roses, and not even very fragrant ones really. However, food suddenly smelled sublime.
After day two and some adjustment I find I can filter out to a degree my focus on scents that are more unpleasant.
Today, day 3, out in the world...some scents bring me close to hurling....buildings, something dead somewhere in the area, bad greasy cooking, the subway oil scent. Others were just...AMAZING. Cut grass, baking bread, the ocean breeze.
I had spent today, my first day out, not counting trips to the clinic, after a full week of being half dead and feverish on my couch, at a mock trial for which I was paid(That might be a separate post). We left at 5, and i had several lovely, peaceful hours to myself before i was to rendesvous with Crimson and J, who went to go see Terminator:Salvation. I decided to have my first lobster roll of the season at Legal Seafoods. My server, Sophie, she was a delight to interact with. The lobster roll...lobster, it turns out, when having one's sense of smell boosted so, is sublime. I discovered quickly that i had to almost eliminate the addition of lemon or it destroyed the nuances. The roll was wretched with my taste and smell boosted. French fries were...alien. Seriously, the taste of french fries, though good, was too much...too oily (though they were not greasy), too salty, too starchy. Actually, starch in general did not fly, it seems. One of my favorite wines, Dr. Frank's Reisling, well...it was utter FAIL with my taste buds as they were. The scent was wrecked by far too much acidity. Unsweetened iced tea, however, was nice, best of all, I could taste the unsqueezed lemon very clearly in the brew.
After meeting J & Crimson, I took them to the North End. We went to Cantina Italiana. I had an antipasto...cheese was so ridiculously complex, even while the salt and peppercorn urned my tongue. Prosciutto ...mmm, despite overwhelming salt (which it really wasn't). roasted artichoke hearts were...curious. Vinegared mushrooms were utterly nauseating. Salumi was not tolerable...the fatty flavor and salt killed any other flavor, although I've had it efore and liked it just fine. Whatever pinot grigio was selected was dry, crisp, but smelled so weird to me, almost musty (J said it smelled fine, and dry), but tasted great. Limoncello was amazing. Canolli was a touch too rich, as the butter in the shell tasted...off. Espresso, sans sugar...mmm.
Came home and went to sleep. I wore myself out.
J just made us some pasta with butter, parmagean, EVOO, and fresh basil and greek orgegano, as well as garlic chives, from the garden.
WOW.
Never thought any antibiotic would have an interesting side effect.
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I've realized how damn happy I am with the food I eat and cook.
I mean, I get fresh produce from Boston Organics, who deliver to my door, or local farmer's markets, I get dairy and eggs from an organic local collective as well as the meat from grass fed pastured cows (which tastes vastly superior to grocery store meat, is leaner by far, and a rich, dark ruby red color, not that pitiful pinky red...). I make my own sauerkraut, ricotta, tempeh, butter & buttermilk, milk kefir, yogurt, kombucha and water kefir, I grow my own herbs, and some of my veggies (this year - romaine lettuce, eggplants, broccoli, banana peppers, garlic, scallions, 4 types and colors of tomatoes....rosemary, basil, parsley, greek oregano, mint, thyme). I have edible weeds in my yard, such as lambs quarters, knotweed, sorrel, chick weed, plantain... and during summers with enough rain, fresh porcinis across my lawn.
I have neighbors who garden and share excess in summer, as do I.
And I work for a most excellent mexican family, where Mama Angela makes the most delicious food for us.
Truly, I am blessed.
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GENIUS BOSTON #GENIUS BOSTON http://digg.com/tech_news/Eye_to_the_Keyhole_GENIUS_BOSTON_VIRAL_KAOS Everybody who can possibly comment (from as many unique IPs as possible), please do. Type anything. I'm trying to demonstrate to PJ the power of keywords, blogging, and google. Help me test this. Link back to this and encourage others to comment or help this experiment for me. Believe it or not...this might help create a career. Consider this a viral work of summoning. GENIUS BOSTON transmission received, keep it going, the post isn't on google yet... thanks so much for helping me with this little experiment. This is meant to ...hopefully....demonstrate the nature of viral marketing via memes such as twitter/blogs/facebook. I am interning with a creative consultant and she has steered me into this realm, and the power of such social interfaces. She is teaching me and has me, so far, creating facebooks and twitters for clients, but there can be so much more. I want to demonstrate to her...and anyone else...the power of using key words and links to spread a meme enough that it will warrant showing up in google, in the first few pages. post elsewhere if possible, as links and external hits will greatly increase this result. I have never wanted to spread a viral meme so much ever in my life. I am trying to demonstrate such viral memes and marketing within a weeks time. I want to see this post hit the first 10 pages of google within a week. ...it hit 1st page, #5 in less than 20 hours! As I mentioned, for those magickally inclined, consider this a bit of kaos magic, a summoning. For psyche types, consider this a state of creating conditions to create a self fulfilling prophecy. and thank you!
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