Hell for a super-smell-sensitive pregnant lady!

ALISON529

EW ew ew ew ew. I am so grossed out right now I have to vent. I just came back from grocery shopping and I'm starving.  Before I started cooking, I noticed that my trashcan was full and so I took it out - no different than normal.  On my way back to my door, I noticed a really bad smell, like vomit or rotten gross-ness and I figured it must be from one of our neighbors' apartments.  When I came back, it turns out the trash dripped a smelly trail of brown trash liquid from the kitchen to my door, and when I looked in the trashcan there was mold & grossness at the bottom.  I have not been nauseaus to date but it is all I can do not to throw up right now.  Then I had to clean it all up with Lysol disinfectant and wash out the trashcan.  It's a good thing I don't have bleach b/c I'd be bleaching everything and I don't think we're supposed to inhale bleach fumes, right?  Talk about nasty.  Now I can't stop smelling the worst smell ever - I feel like it's all over me and needless to say, i can't imagine eating - especially not in that smelly kitchen!  Definitely pregnant lady hell!

markir07

Omg, I work in a hospital and I can't even walk into the cafeteria anymore without getting hit in the face with the smell of gross food. Ughhhh I dread walking in there just to get a water. The smell of my own lunch is fine, but all that mass production processed fried food makes me want to vomit. I didn't feel like this 2 weeks ago, but it's bad now!

sisterjanet

Last time the smell of leftovers heated in the microwave did me in.  I think it's starting again this time.

dollface777

Wow, I can't even take out the trash! You're doing way better than me. And it takes me about two hours for me to decide what to eat. Nothing smells or sounds good.

yvanehtnioj

I keep smelling BBQ/grilling every time I walk around my work. I don't understand it. It's like I can smell the cooking meat inside each restaurant's kitchen.

delatl

I work with college students and they often smell bad! They don't always shower and their breath stinks. It's sending me reeling.

ALISON529

These are all so funny!  And I agree - even when I'm really hungry sometimes nothing sounds good.  I have quarantined myself to my bedroom and I just ate an entire bag of whole wheat goldfish.  Smart choice.  Real healthy diet here.

Magheeta

Eww, I think I would have lost it if I were you. We passed by a little cafe today and the people I walked with commented on how good it smelled. I had to breathe through my mouth to avoid the smell.

rainydayluck

When I picked DD up from daycare today, they were emptying all the trashcans right when I got there. I could smell every dirty diaper, I swear! I held my breath as much as I could.

CamrynnsMommy

At my previous job I sat next to the bathroom and the microwave. I had to smell poop and broccoli everyday. I can't even be near broccoli anymore, not even when I'm not pregnant.

kedbsn

I work in a hospital, too, and its rough. Hospitals are a stinky place, and my department can smell nasty at times. 

Thank goodness the cafeteria is closed during my shift. 

awc1986

Kimbus22 said:

The toddler diarrhea I dealt with last week almost wrecked me for real.  Especially when I didn't realize it was there and grabbed the diaper to check for poop after he farted a death smell and stuck my thumb directly in it.

Sorry but that really made me lol!

I have the prospect of filling the dishwasher when I get home from work. The thought actually makes me gag. It's not the most fragrant job at the best of times.

The worst thing I saw recently was when I took some off milk out of the fridge before I went to work, as a reminder not to use it. I didn't have time to dispose of it then, but I came back to it when I got home and when I went to pour it out it had completely separated and turned to chunks. I'm supressing my gag reflex as I type this. It was the most disgusting thing ever.

PikaPikaChick

Kimbus22 said:

The toddler diarrhea I dealt with last week almost wrecked me for real.  Especially when I didn't realize it was there and grabbed the diaper to check for poop after he farted a death smell and stuck my thumb directly in it.

Happened to me last night too.  Daughter had her first accident in a couple of months.  "Mama, can you check my underpants?"  Stuck my first two fingers directly into the bright green shitline that had crawled right up the back of her drawers.  I had to sit down for a while after that.

codik86

Thats no fun! Boo to bad nausea inducing smells! My problem is I keep remembering smells of food like oregano or olives. Gross! Makes me wanna hurl.

EmilyGolden1

I hear you all and raise you one! I sit near the microwave and my coworker reheated fish yesterday---i think I turned green-and she could tell----it's a life no-no to reheat fish, but at work when you know your coworker is pregnant? blah!