Thank you.  There's a lot of people who aren't taking covid-19 seriously. As someone who also had it back in July with my sister as well we also had a pretty mild case where we didn't have any real breathing problems (my sister actually was sort of short of breath for a few days but recovered) we did experience a loss of taste and smell. Part of it was really hard to deal with because you did lose appetite and you know part of it is like a stomach nausea thing, obviously experienced diarrhea however the biggest part of it was that because you couldn't taste you just didn't want to eat. What we ended up doing was literally throwing tons of vegetables and fruit with a little bit of ice into a blender and just making vitamin c smoothies to help with getting the nutrients we needed because you didn't want to eat but you had to you couldn't taste anything. So the best way to get it down was to make a drink out of it and just chug it and obviously drink tons of water so that you were hydrated. I remember I was the first one to start getting taste back and my sister had made a mango strawberry blueberry spinach kale onion smoothie and I could taste it and it was the most foul thing I've ever had and the kale left stringy chunks in the smoothie. I about vomited that right back up. but I honestly think that was probably what helped us get through it. I spent the whole time during our little covid bout playing final fantasy 7 and like when I felt better taking the dog for walks with mask on. Now my friend has it and because she had you know message just the whole time through our experience we've been keeping contact with her to see how she's faring and giving her advice to get through it and she's coming through it but it's a very hard thing to imagine. I'vee had other friends who had loss of taste and smell for more than the three or four days I did my best friend in another state pretty much was out taste or smell for 3 months and she lost 20 lb because she wasn't eating properly. I don't think people take it seriously for all that it causes. Not only do people experience headaches and nausea diarrhea maybe loss of taste and smell body aches fever trouble breathing there's a million different symptoms that are different from each person but there's also the recovery end of it too. Some people who have had lung issues if they don't cough out whatever liquid has formed in their lungs from not being able to get the proper oxygen end up you sometimes developing pneumonia or bronchitis (my sister who's in medical suggests that people who have a lot of coughing not use any any medications that have the DM label on it because it suppresses coughing and you need to cough that shit up). And then you know there's obviously people who are hospitalized or have a very slow recovery.

And of course there's the anxiety everyone handles covid different and all the people I've known who've had it the entire time no matter how light or heavy their cases the one thing that was always present was a sheer amount of anxiety and fear and depression because there's no way of knowing how it's going to affect every individual. 

so it's really good to actually get out experiences even if it's you know telling a story so thank you for sharing. 

I really hope you get well soon it's not something that's easy to deal with.

Thankyou for sharing the sweet story .

And I am grateful to God that you have recovered from covid-19 & I hope that you will also recover your sense of smell and taste. May God's grace be with you as you navigate through the physical n emotional recovery...

my first reaction as I read the short story was, but your alive! be grateful! and this is toxic positivity in this.  It made me take a step back and reflect on my reaction. Because you can both be grateful and yet bereave at the loss of a sense. Personally, as a foody, I would have been devastated if I lost my sense of taste, as food has an important role in my culture and in how I interact with my environment. 

I hope you get support as you navigate this new reality, short or long term, as either way, it affects you and that you have someone who listens instead of wanting to give advice. hugs