ooohhhh the non-sense (pun intended) tmph inadvertently took me back to a daaaark time holy balls
hi I'm mod, and I was one of the first people in my country to get backstreetboys tickets. I don't know where they came from, I don't know who slipped them to me, but I got them.
The first day I felt something was a monday. A regular workday, no biggie. Later on, starting to feel not-good. Called in sick on tuesday, nothing out of the ordinary, work kind of expected it.
I can't remember if it was lunch or dinner (probably dinner) but I made a post, now deleted, making fun of the fact that I was so congested that I couldn't taste my sandwich.
two people close to me commented saying that apparently a loss of taste was a symptom. It was no longer funny. I called work immediately, had them clean and sanitize my station, and self-isolated for a week.
why a week? WEEEEELLLLL everyone and their great-grandparents was rushing in to get tested every single day, so the hospitals ran out of pins. Oops. Not only that, at this time, because of the pin-shortage and the importance of testing the elderly, I wasn't "qualified" for a test. I wasn't elderly, I wasn't sick, and I wasn't a child.
Keep in mind, I already suspected that I was infected (hehe rhyme), and kept telling them that, but nope, because I didn't meet their credentials, I couldn't get tested. So I self-isolated. For a week. Kept calling. On either day seven or eight, someone was FINALLY like "oh jeez you've been sick for a week? yeah come over today". Like THANK YOU to whoever that was.
Anyway got tested, got the results relatively quickly and whaddayaknow, it was the tickets. I COULD'VE TOLD YOU THAT!!!
Because I had the tickets, the last week of March, the entirety of April, and iirc all of May as well, I lost my sense of smell and sense of taste. It was okay at first, y'know I've been congested before, no big deal.
but when you're into week three of NOTHING, you start to lose it a bit. Yes the isolation was a factor, obviously, but not being able to enjoy food was excruciating. At some point, I was making and ordering the spiciest shit I could think of, just so I could FEEL something!! BECAUSE I COULDN'T TASTE OR SMELL ANYTHING.
oh and even after some senses started coming back, everything was stinky. Like you know that hot spring geyser smell? Or like a hard boiled egg? EVERYTHING smelled like that to me for like four months. Including water. Which made showering/bathing an absolute torture.
So let me tell you. This week's TMPH was... interesting. I'm almost tempted to try some of the deprivations myself. But then I remember: no, I went through two of these because of bullshit! AND IT MADE BELL PEPPER TASTE BAD TO ME!! I FUCKING LOVE BELL PEPPER, FUCK YOU TICKETS!!!
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