[bashinator]

I have a lot of sympathy for you, for what it's worth. Like I said, losing my sense of taste for just a week and change was utterly terrifying. I'm very sorry for your loss.

I've been interested in sensory prosthetics for a while now. Using alternate sensory routes for balance, or sight, is a thing. I wish I were hearing more about it in mainstream science news - it seems like giving blind people 3D lidar perception through a grid of skin cells would be a good thing. Scent would be orders of magnitude more complex, but maybe still a good goal for future R&D?