October 22

This last happened September 2016 and I checked back on the weather – no heat wave as we’re having now. (For future reference I do have a cold sore from a cold I never got.) But it did go away for most of a year so I’m hopeful!

I have something and it has a name and it is not good!

I’ve been smelling smoke on and off for a while now and it’s impossible for me to tell when it’s real and when it’s not. When it seems unlikely to be real I ask around and no one else smells it.

From The Smithsonian magazine: “Brief episodes of phantom smells or phantosmia – smelling something that’s not there – can be triggered by temporal lobe seizures, epilepsy, or head trauma. Phantosmia is also associated with Alzheimer’s and occasionally with the onset of a migraine.”

Hmmm, temporal lobe seizures, epilepsy, head trauma, Alzheimer’s…and I read somewhere else that it could be a brain tumor. Great. I’m going to wait awhile and see if it goes away. Most likely though it’s just a sinus condition.