Remembering Smell: A Memoir of Losing--and Discovering--the Primal Sense
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.83 (832 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0618861882 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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As the hallucinations fade and anosmia (no smell at all) moves in to take their place, Blodgett is beset by questions: Why are smell and mood hand-in-hand? How are smell disorders linked to other diseases? What is taste without flavor? Blodgettâs provocative conversations with renowned geneticists, smell dysfunction experts, neurobiologists, chefs, and others ultimately lead to a life-altering understanding of smell, and to the most transformative lesson of all: the olfactory nerve, in ways unlike any other in the human body has the extraordinary power to heal. Her olfactory nerv
"Really hits home." according to la plume d'une femme. I think the book REMEMBERING SMELL is going to appeal to a rather small section of readers, mostly from the minute segment of the population that has experienced the loss of the sense of smell. The author does cover, rather extensively, the science of olfactory loss (neutralized a bit by including a lot of anecdotal evidence and personal opinion). But I thought Blodgett didn't devote enough space to the far-reaching emotional impact of the loss of this particular one of our senses. I'd like to share a personal "take" on that aspect of the loss that REMEMBERING SMELL touches on.We don't th. Stephen Foster said Sloppy book, but compelling for those who've lived it.. I see from some of the other reviews that the audience for this book is rather self-selecting. Given how low in importance the general population rates the subject matter, that's to be expected.But for fellow sufferers, and the people who care about them, the book is compelling, eye-opening. It's a shame that it's so sloppily edited: the author needed a sit-down with a good editor who would ask her what kind of book she intended to write: a personal memoir, a disease-of-the-week sob-fest, or (nudge, nudge) a story about a woman fundamentally affected by a little-understood and lightly-reg. A loss not to be comprehended by most "When I lost my sense of smell, all those sensory cues (for romance and sex) vanished. Deprived of my husband's familiar scent, I sometimes forgot he was in bed beside me." - Bonnie BlodgettOne October day, Bonnie Blodgett began to experience a distorted sense of smell. All things, no matter what their normal aroma, began to smell as if a concoction of all things putrid put through a blender. An ear, nose and throat specialist she subsequently saw attributed it to the Zicam nasal spray she used several weeks before to combat a cold.On the following Christmas Eve, Bonnie's sense of smell d
A week later I noticed a funny smell. Her olfactory nerve was destroyed, perhaps forever. As the hallucinations fade and anosmia (no smell at all) moves in to take their place, Blodgett is beset by questions: Why are smell and mood hand-in-hand? How are smell disorders linked to other diseases? What is taste without flavor? Blodgett's provocative conversations with renowned geneticists, smell dysfunction experts, neurobiologists, chefs, and others ultimately lead to a life-altering understanding of smell, and to the most transformative lesson of all: the olfactory nerve, in ways unlike any other in the human body has the extraordinary power to heal. P