Dr. Ally/Allie Louks
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah.
So it was gone, like gone completely.
100% couldn't smell a thing for 18 months.
And then it very, very slowly, so incrementally that it was practically impossible to know that I was recovering.
Yeah, it has slowly, slowly come back.
But a lot of things smell different to how they used to.
I used to be really good at it.
I used to be able to smell something and know what was in there.
And now everything smells different.
It's like having a kind of hard reset.
You have to kind of work.
I suppose.
I mean, it's a this is maybe a terrible comparison, but it's kind of like learning to walk again.
You know, like everything is different.
You're having to build up your understanding from the ground up.
I mean, actually genuinely think that maybe the hardest part of my work, because I love what I do.
I really genuinely can say that I love what I do.
The hardest thing is returning to books that are really great examples of olfactory texts in that smell is very fundamental to them and it's operating in a way that is necessary for the functioning of the plot or for characterization or style or whatever.
But the books themselves are just absolutely hideous.
Just like poorly written?