27 Days!!! BEEF!

Hindsight is 20/20, right? Well, in this case maybe 18/20.

It has been 27 days since I was in ER getting my face all fixed up. With the damage by my eye, I get dizzy and nauseous easily. There have been a lot of foods that I have not been able to eat. Pretty much 90% of my already child-like diet was off limits. But, it made sense, right? I was having huge, instant migraines for weeks along with the dizziness, etc.

I had lost my sense of smell too. But, ya know, maybe the damage to the nerves, etc. That seemed logical. Did I have a fever? I don’t know. I felt like crap and didn’t leave the couch for a week.

It didn’t dawn on me until last week when I could suddenly smell things, that maybe I had been dealing with covid. I mean, I had been sitting in a hospital for five hours. There are lots of germs in a hospital. Maybe everything wasn’t all just due to the damage to my face. Especially since I noticed a small increase in my appetite in the last day or so. I don’t know. Maybe it was just my face, maybe it was something else; but some things don’t all add up.

Since I can smell now, and the thought of beef didn’t make my tummy roll; I decided to give it a try. I haven’t been able to eat beef in 27 days. I love beef and have missed it! Today, I could do it! I had a Sloppy Joe, aka a Messy Jessie! And I could eat! I ate the whole thing! That is two full meals today! AHH! This is so exciting!!

Tonight I am thankful that I could eat beef AND that it tasted good!!! I still have some healing to do! But this is a wonderful step in the right direction! Woo Hoo!! Yay!!!