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I haven't had taste or smell for over 10 years due to chemotherapy.

Posted By: Fatty on 2005-12-31
In Reply to: Anyone have a home remedy for loss of taste/smell? - Tired

Sometimes that's a GOOD thing. Seriously.


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Anyone have a home remedy for loss of taste/smell?

This sinus cold has been dragging on for nearly 2 weeks now..going on day 5 of absolutely no sense of taste or smell....soooooooo tired of this


home remedy for loss of taste/smell
How about zinc? I was told years ago that this helps with loss of taste and smell.
help, adjuvant chemotherapy with s/l fury????
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haven't done that one right in years
excuse me - Have not done that 1 right in years!!!
No! I'm 48 years old and still haven't had a new car!!!!
I don't think kids should be given a new car. That is a good place in life to teach them that they have the ability to work hard, save their money and buy anything they want. It gives them the incentive to want to make more money, which gives them the incentive to take care it (the car they finally buy) and also gives them the incentive to work hard in school/college so that they will get a very good paying job when they are finished with their college, so they can afford the expensive things they desire, like in the "real world" where everything isn't given to them.
we haven't had a tv in 9 years...
got rid of it when our kids were small and it's been w o n d e r f u l. No nameless, faceless shrieking box taking over the whole house, with its subliminal messages about happiness and new cars and happiness and thin bodies and how teenagers in the sitcoms are smarter than adults, bla, bla, bla. It's all mindless crapola if you ask me. BTW, my daughter in 4th grade reads at an 11th grade level. I think they read out of boredom LOL
About 23. Some I haven't used in years, some I

use on nearly a daily basis.  What you need depends on the type of account you work on.  If you are only doing clinic notes you can get buy with a drug book and a book like Sloane's Medical Word Book.   If you are doing acute care but only doing one speciality then again you could get by with a drug book and whatever Stedman's book for that speciality.   I don't know how people function without books.  Google is not always a reliable reference and to have to spend time googling when you can open the book and found it in 3 seconds is so much easier and productive. 


Some of my books are an older edition, but unless it is a book that I need frequently I don't update with each new addition.  I'm partial to Stedman's books, as I think most MTs are.  They have specials throughout the year.  You can also buy books at half.com.  You can get a brand new book for a fraction of the cost of new, though be sure to check Stedman's website to make sure you are getting the most current edition. 


I haven't had a normal in 2+ years now. (nm)


 


haven't been to brooklyn in years
But didn't know it was trendy at all. There are a lot of really bad parts and a few ritzy parts as I recall. Very crowded and a place not desired although I am interested in the new trend.
I haven't be a newbie for 10 years
I am a slow typer, I am only paid 7 cpl, and have 20 different doctors on a daily basis.  I am feeling like maybe I have wasted the last 10 years as an MT.  I hear so many talk about their perfect accounts, making $100+ a day only working 8 hrs a day, and I the only thing that keeps me going is the fact that I am home for my kids when they get home from school.  Where are those good accounts, good platforms, and good paying MT jobs that we experienced MTs deserve? 
agree - haven't had a car payment in years
paid $6000 cash for a 93 Volvo wagon back in 2002.  Too many people think they need a new (or pricey) vehicle and really have better things to do with their $400-600 per mo. Every time I look into getting something new or simply newer, I decide that I neither want to take that much money out of savings,  nor do I want to have such an outrageous car payment.  I would totally prefer a brand new car, but it seems like such a waste of money. 
I haven't missed a day of work in 10 years
I can't believe so many ICs do this, taking days off! It's unheard of to me.

I don't blame you for getting frustrated. Seems no one has a good work ethic these days.
If you haven't done MT in many years, that is a very good rate...sm
Many things have changed and companies usually require more recent experience. I say go for it!
I haven't made that kind of rate for at least 20 years
Don't know where you live. In my area, that is not good money at all.
I've been hearing this for years, haven' t you.? It gets boring.
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Besides, that donation is squarely out of MTs' pockets. I haven't had a raise in the 3 years
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I haven't bought a drug book in 2 years - I use Google ...sm
and the FDA website. Both are faster than flipping through a book and free.
Haven't heard in years. Supposedly making it harder to get money
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Also, what does it taste like?
Is there something comparable to the taste? I also wondered about what it is. I thought it was a super dose of caffeine.
good taste, nan!
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I do think it is in bad taste to ask for money, but
if you say to make donations to a favorite charity seems okay. I saw an article some place recently that said about what I have said here.
You have excellent taste in men. My first choice also.
He has it all.  Class, dignity, intelligence and charm and oh so cute/handsome/sexy.
You have great taste, my friend!

YEP, and some people have good taste and....sm
and some others have NO taste/class....*lol* 
I don't drink at all ever - hate the taste...nm
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Either way, the comment was in very poor taste.
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Another wise woman with good taste! SM
I think BBT is the bee's knees. You have very good taste.
I liked his music but he's way too liberal loony agenda for my taste
JMO
Your taste runs to slender effeminate boys. That's the way it is and how Jude Law
makes a "living" as well as Justin Timberlake.  There are those who aren't attracted to manly men and enjoy seeing a pretty boy.  BTW, Toby Keith has some excellent tight jeans and long legs and I don't see doughboy but it is relative if you prefer the looks of Jude Law/Justin Timberlake/Leonardo DeCaprio.  And he appeared w/o his hat on many times.   Not bald by any stretch like Garth Brooks.  But having said that, Garth Brooks, dough-boy and balding was hot in his day.
it's TASTE. You have lost sight of the original concept of the posts.
i'm not doing an ethical evaluation on why i am drawn to toby keith or if he may be gay or rock hudson's qualities if he was gay or jude law.  it is just the type of guy women are drawn to and why.  shallow has nothing to do with the discussion.  but you aren't paying attention are you?
But you WILL have to smell their pot. :) nm
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I think the smell would be better in New Orleans
No thanks.
I smell a troll ...
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I smell a huge rat
Is your husband up to no-good with this loser? First of all any "my baby's daddy" situation has scumbag written all over it. Second of all, if your husband doesn't mind being used by this lazy bum for a free place to live, he has to be getting something out of the bargain. I'd be doing some serious checking around if I were you.

Meanwhile, you're right to keep this piece of crap away from your kids. If your husband likes him so much let him live with this waste of oxygen alone.

Good luck.
Sadly, nothing gets cig smell out of anything. It
always sneaks back. I have been burned 3 times out of 4 on E-Bay with MT stuff. I am a huge buyer and seller, and its the only area I've not been happy with, so I'd rather buy new now than risk it. Hopefully it will work. One thing I have tried is sealing whatever it is up in a bag for as long as possible, or as frequently as possible, with a Outdoor Fresh Scent Bounce or two in the sealed bag with the item. Over time the Bounces absorb some of the cig smell. But it would be a hassle undoing a C-phone every day and bagging it. Sorry - that smell makes me sick, too, and I used to smoke! Good luck.
do I smell a newbie/cherrypicker?
You go over seas, learn medicine in conjunction with a new language fluently, then tell us how easy it is?  These ESLs at least make an effort to slow down and be understood, more than I can say for the Americans.  Besides, it is our job, being transcriptionists, to decipher these accents, research, and come up with the correct terminology for the report.  Would you like mister rogers to dictate all of them? Come on, you can handle it!
Me too, how funny! It does smell good!
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I smell a rat. If it were me, I would consider this the first red flag and be on the lookout

I smell a dead cat on the line.... so to say.
Such as in "another woman."
trolls smell rooty
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Vinegar also takes smell out. sm

I always use vinegar when I need to get a smell out. 


Whenever I burn popcorn in the microwave, I fill a coffee cup full of vinegar and set it in the microwave.  It always takes the smell out.


I've steam cleaned pet soil out of my carpet using vinegar and baking soda, and the odor always goes away.


 


I smell a rat - I mean bully. Same thing.:)

OP,


I agree with Katz.  No need to use profanity however.  Don't risk your dignity and self-respect by stooping to her level. Yet, I agree with everything else, like telling her to shut up in a nice way -- let her know you are working and you suggest she does the same.  She feels threatened obviously, so don't make it easy for her by quitting which is probably what she wants.  I don't think the boss wants you to quit, however.  It sounds like she just wants to skip out on the pay increase and manipulate the situation to her benefit (according to what you have said so far). 


As for Ms. Obnoxious, sounds like she has figured out the only one she needs to get along with is the boss.  And if she can get you to leave, then more work and job security for her.  It's an awful mess of a situation you are in.  I don't tolerate bullies and neither should you, and that is exactly what she sounds like -- a bully.  You will have to give her the silent treatment instead of her giving you the silent treatment and even if she does give you the silent treatment, good.   It doesn't sound like she has anything worthy to say anyway.   In the meantime, if you want to be there for any reason -- to pay off a debt, to go back to school, to gain more experience before leaving, etc. -- then stay as long as you want.  When you are ready, find the new job, test it out, then make the switch at your own pace.  With your typing speed, I don't doubt you will be able to find something better.  Just don't make it easy for anyone by quitting. 


You are all that matters, especially on a job.  Workers are not your friend. You have to find that outside of the workplace.  I don't think talking to either one of them is worth anything.  They already know they are in the wrong. 


Best of luck to you.


me


 


 


moldy smell in carpet
I had the same thing and ended up finally tearing up the whole carpet and pad, then installing a wood laminate floor. It was expensive, but I had tried EVERYTHING, to no avail. Baking soda and vinegar are excellent remedies, IF the mold hasn't seeped into the pad. If it has, there is virtually nothing that will remove the smell altogether. We hadn't noticed the mold smell when we looked at the house. (The carpet had just been freshly shampooed to show the house.) It was after we bought it and moved in that we noticed it. Before my husband installed the wood laminate floor, we bleached the entire concrete slab, as the mold had also seeped in to the concrete. Bleach did the job on that. Good luck. :)
Wake up and smell the roses and not
alcohol breath - ewwww
well wake up and smell the coffee...

Ever since managed care came into being here, the doctors have been moaning and groaning...and less and less folks are actually entering the medical field today.....becauise nobody is earning the money they were 15-20 plus years ago.....There is a huge shortage of nurses also in this country - it's not profitable enough for anyone today...not like it used to be prior to managed care.....


I have been treated overseas and it IS better.....and I recently read an article that folks here, the elderly, are now relocating to India for long-term care at home....it's nearly free over there....if I ever find that article, I will repost here.....the couple the article was about are in their 80s and they get all their rxs, aides in the home (home health care), and treatment for a miniscule amount compared to here......the article showed pictures too.....all nice and clean and very efficient looking.  Plus, an added benefit is they are just more respectful of the elderly overseas.....in general and everywhere.....whether it be Europe or Asia.....while here, all they seem to be interested in in this country is YOUTH - a youth-oriented society it has been for a couple of generations now.


You *think* we have the best......but it might not always be as it seems and think of *down the road* - while less folks are entering the field(s) here - you'll find there will be less and less *the best*.....


 


Nope, we're everywhere on this board! Can't you smell us??
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Candles that smell like fresh cut grass. sm
Gosh, I just love that smell.  Anyone know where I can purchase something like that?  What a great pick me up for winter.  Also, love the clean smell of fresh rain.  If  I could only bottle that aroma.....
Drench it with vinegar. It won't take the color out, and the smell will be gone.You can also add

baking soda to the vinegar.  It works really well. 


I use vinegar for anything with a smell.  If the trash can starts to smell, I pour vinegar in the bottom and let it sit overnight.  Then I just rinse it out in the morning.


Also, if you burn popcorn in the microwave, you can pour vinegar into a coffee cup and put it in the microwave.  Then let it sit in the microwave overnight.  By morning, the smell will be gone. 


 


I smell a corrective addendum coming -
The doc says,"the debridement contained subcutaneous and healthy necrotic tissue."  Say, what?  Healthy necrotic tissue?
You need to get the smell/urine enzymes out of the carpet and furniture - sm
The dog will just continue to go back to where he peeed (?) again and again because he smells his scent. I don't think neuturing him will make a difference in that respect. You need to go buy Nature's Miracle Odor & Stain remover. It's pricey but it does the job....I learned this by working at PetsMart years ago and by personal experience. You have to soak whatever it is the dog peeed on though and let it air dry, takes a couple days. You will have to decide on how to "contain" him until the smell is gone, either in a smaller area of the house, outside, whatever. You might want to seriously try training him to go outside. He never learned that he should NOT go inside so that behavior of him going wherever he wants in the house is going to be difficult if not impossible to change. You may want to call a professional legit dog trainer in the area and get their thoughts and suggestions. You are going to have a hard time modifying the dogs behavior, but with a LOT of persistance and consistency you can prevail. Good luck.
Lilacs....ah, the smell of 'em!! Too bad they don't live long. nm
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