“I felt like I was eating an ashtray,” she says. But soon after she started smelling smoke, she began to taste ashes. Her headaches, brain fog and sharp pains in her hands, legs and feet were more concerning than changes to her ability to smell. Then, throughout the fall and winter, I experienced a variety of long COVID symptoms.” “I was pretty sick for about a week,” she says. She doesn’t recall whether she lost her ability to smell during her initial illness because her other symptoms were worse. Eskridge was experiencing the first disruption to her sense of smell caused by COVID-19, which she had been infected with eight months before, back in June 2020. “I was in the clinic, and it smelled like someone had left a floor heater on,” she says, recalling a moment in early 2021. Speech language therapist Hannah Eskridge, MSP, was sure she smelled something burning.
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