Whitstable mum's sense of taste and smell greatly distorted by impact of Covid-19
Published: 06:00, 29 December 2020
A Covid victim says the disease has scrambled her senses to the extent that coffee now smells like car fumes, toothpaste tastes like petrol and chocolate is too disgusting to stomach.
Sarah Govier, a 44-year-old from Whitstable, caught the virus in May and like many others lost her sense of smell.
Sarah Govier's senses have been distorted. Picture: SWNS
But months after it came back she was struck by a bizarre new symptom - a total distortion of her senses.
The mum-of-two says nearly "all food smells rotten" and she's lost weight because she can barely bring herself to eat some of her favourite meals.