James

Photograph by Morgana Wingard

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK: I know, I got it from my wife being that we’re together most of the time. She came home one day from work and said that everybody in her pharmacy simultaneously lost their sense of smell. Obviously, that was the first indication because, you know, it’s just not one person. It’s everyone. They actually got it from the owner of their pharmacy. Once she said that to me, I was like, all right, so we’re gonna have to go through the whole process. A couple of days later I got a headache. A couple of days after that, I lost my sense of smell. My symptoms were just mirroring hers. As she was going through it, I was basically going through the same thing. I can’t even say I had a temperature. It was mild: slight body aches for the first day and then just no smell and light coughing. I’m super lucky that we didn’t have anything serious I know some people went through.

Jimmy is a husband, father of three, optometrist, and Jewish immigrant from Russia.