Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.

Kia, welcome to the program. Yes. Hi, Dr. Laura. Thank you for taking my call. Thank you. What can I help you with?

So, probably about four years ago, I lost my smell and pretty much most of my taste from COVID, I guess.

That's what they said. That's what they told.

They just diagnosed me, the ear, nose and throat diagnosed me.

It was about six months before COVID really hit.

She just said, you've caught some kind of a virus.

We don't know what it is.

And so we, you know, didn't COVID hit and couldn't go to the doctor.

But my smell never came back. is very minimal so going on like four years I mean I have no smell whatsoever and I really miss it and I even had surgery

at the end of 2023.

What sort of surgery?

She said I had like infection that she, on one side of my face, that she thought maybe that had something to do with the smell being absent.

What did they cut in surgery?

What did they cut for an infection?

I don't understand.

I guess they went in.

I guess on my MRI, it was all white.

And she said, we need to go in there and clean all that out.

So I was, I had COVID like three times.

I was really sick a couple of times with it.

And she said, let's just go in there and clean it all out.

...