A YouTube cook gets Covid

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and loses her sense of taste and smell. She's desperate enough to consult TikTok. No, it doesn't work.

Oh my word, I do sympathize. Mine was gone for weeks and weird for months.

She has an earlier video where she tastes foods she hates. Nothing.

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1. Have you tried her deep dish pizza with Wisconsin cheese?

Actually it's not her recipe, but she reviewed it and made it. It was awesome!!!

I love Emmy!

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3. I love her "hard times" recipes, a few of which I've tested

I liked the cornmeal slugburgers the best. Also, she showed me where I went wrong on fast food condiment pack tomato soup. She missed my fast food condiment pack salad dressings, though. They always drew rave reviews.

Don't judge me, I've been poor. Being poor is like a freeloading relative who periodically shows up, eats everything in sight, then goes off to freeload off somebody else. It sucks. I have to stay in practice.

I just hope the swelling goes down around her olfactory bulb (the supposed mechanism for prolonged anosmia) and she's back to her old self soon.

She might find she can tolerate and even enjoy some of her least liked foods, when taste returns after Covid, it can be a litte strange.

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2. A friend who teaches at a private Hebrew school in NYC

got it back in 2020, after they said kids could go back to school and it was OK, under pressure from the parents.. It wasn't OK. She got Covid almost 3 years ago and STILL has no sense of taste. She gained weight for a while then she lost it later with her second round of Covid.

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4. I love Emmy and I feel so bad for her. It must be incredibly frustrating to

be a professional and losing your sense of smell and, with it, the nuances of taste. Well, I amend that. It would be frustrating for anyone. I've lost my sense of taste for a couple of days when I have had a really bad head cold and that was frustrating enough, and it was nothing like what Covid does to you. She says she can now taste sweet, sour, and bitter, but little else.

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5. I dropped a gppd 30 pounds when it happened to me, 20 of them I can't afford to drop

at my age (ahem). They've all returned to the scene of the crime, alas. I knew I was in real trouble when I couldn't tell a jar of cinnamon sugar from an identical jar of granulated onion by the smell.

I had it in March, 2020, when nobody knew what the hell we were dealing with. I think it was about 3 weeks into my anosmia that they redid the hallmark symptoms away from the high fever and cough and added low grade fever, severe headache, and anosmia. It didn't help, but it did nail down the diagnosis that I'd suspected just because the illness had been so incredibly weird.

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6. Wow, I can't imagine.

When I would get a bad head cold and my sense of taste went out the window, at first I'd try eating everything in sight just to taste anything. When that didn't work, I got bummed out and barely ate anything until my head cleared. It only lasted for a few days, but it's really jarring and, frankly, depressing. I get a lot of pleasure out of eating -- maybe a little too much, lol -- and life would be pretty dreary without it.

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7. She is just SO cute.

I mean that in the best sense of the word.