A woman with long COVID smells coffee for the first time in 2 years in an emotional video: 'It was the best smell ever. I just cried like a baby.”
Jennifer Henderson, 54, hadn't been able to smell or taste properly since she got COVID-19 in January 2021.
She had other lingering symptoms, like headaches and fatigue, that went away after about a week. But her lack of taste and smell persisted for about a year,At that point, she began to smell and taste again — but her senses were altered. For Henderson, who previously loved to cook and enjoyed the smell of flowers in her yard,"it was terrible," she told theGarlic and bananas tasted like gasoline and metal. Ranch dressing and peanut butter tasted like chemicals.
Before losing her sense of taste and smell, Jennifer Henderson enjoyed cooking and going out to restaurants with her husband.Henderson tried smell training, acupuncture and other holistic techniques, but nothing seemed to help — until she heard about an experimental treatment through an online support group.
The treatment, a stellate ganglion block, is already commonly used to manage a variety of pain conditions, as well as post-traumatic stress disorder. It involves delicately injecting temporary local anesthesia into a bundle of nerves on either side of the neck.Her results — captured in a video that's racked up nearly 500,000 views on— were dramatic and immediate. In the video, a nurse brings Henderson a cup of coffee and asks her to take a whiff.
“It was the best smell ever,” Henderson told NBC News. “I just cried like a baby.” She's had two more injections since then and has had even more improvements with each one, according to the Cleveland Clinic.It's not clear exactly how many people have a persistent loss or alteration of their
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