My husband suddenly started smelling so terrible that the odor filled the entire room.<\/p>\n
At first, I tried to ignore it.<\/p>\n
Maybe he’d forgotten to shower.<\/p>\n
Maybe his clothes needed washing.<\/p>\n
But after a few days, the smell became impossible to miss.<\/p>\n
It followed him around the house.<\/p>\n
The bedroom smelled.<\/p>\n
The living room smelled.<\/p>\n
Even the car smelled.<\/p>\n
I finally asked him,<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you okay?\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked confused.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause you smell\u2026 strange.\u201d<\/p>\n
He sniffed his shirt.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don’t smell anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
But I did.<\/p>\n
And it was getting worse.<\/p>\n
For weeks, I begged him to see a doctor.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomething could be wrong,\u201d I told him.<\/p>\n
He kept insisting he was fine.<\/p>\n
Finally, I scheduled an appointment with a urologist and went with him for support.<\/p>\n
A few minutes after they disappeared into the exam room, the doctor stepped back out.<\/p>\n
His face was bright red.<\/p>\n
He was struggling not to laugh.<\/p>\n
\u201cMa’am\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
My heart dropped.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs something seriously wrong?\u201d<\/p>\n
The doctor covered his mouth.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou should probably come see this.\u201d<\/p>\n
I followed him into the exam room.<\/p>\n
My husband was sitting on the examination table with his head hanging down.<\/p>\n
He looked absolutely humiliated.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
The doctor finally burst out laughing.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour husband doesn’t have a medical condition.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at my husband.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen what is it?\u201d<\/p>\n
The doctor pointed toward his pants.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour husband has been wearing the same pair of underwear for almost a week.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stared at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?!\u201d<\/p>\n
My husband immediately protested.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought they were clean!\u201d<\/p>\n
The doctor laughed even harder.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey weren’t.\u201d<\/p>\n
I covered my face.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy would you think that?\u201d<\/p>\n
My husband shrugged.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey looked clean.\u201d<\/p>\n
The doctor explained that my husband’s new laundry detergent had made the fabric smell fresh even though he had been repeatedly putting the same pair back on.<\/p>\n
The smell wasn’t coming from an illness.<\/p>\n
It was coming from a very simple problem.<\/p>\n
My husband had apparently decided that if underwear didn’t look dirty, it could be worn again.<\/p>\n
For days.<\/p>\n
And days.<\/p>\n
And days.<\/p>\n
I stared at him in disbelief.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou came to a urologist because you didn’t want to change your underwear?\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked embarrassed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn’t think it was a big deal.\u201d<\/p>\n
The doctor was practically crying from laughter.<\/p>\n
\u201cSir, please change your underwear every day.\u201d<\/p>\n
My husband nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd shower.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, Doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd wash your clothes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd maybe don’t wear the same pants for a week either.\u201d<\/p>\n
My husband looked down.<\/p>\n
The doctor stopped laughing.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou’re wearing those pants today too, aren’t you?\u201d<\/p>\n
My husband quietly nodded.<\/p>\n
I burst out laughing.<\/p>\n
The doctor did too.<\/p>\n
By the time we left the office, my husband was carrying a prescription he didn’t need\u2014but a very important doctor’s order he absolutely did:<\/p>\n
Buy more underwear.<\/strong><\/p>\n That evening, I threw his entire laundry basket into the washing machine.<\/p>\n And from that day forward, whenever my husband complained about doing laundry, I simply reminded him,<\/p>\n \u201cRemember the urologist?\u201d<\/p>\n He never argued again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My husband suddenly started smelling so terrible that the odor filled the entire room. At first, I tried to ignore it. Maybe he’d forgotten to shower. Maybe his clothes needed … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":202965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-honglay"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/honglay168.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/honglay168.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/honglay168.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honglay168.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honglay168.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/honglay168.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203000,"href":"https:\/\/honglay168.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202999\/revisions\/203000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honglay168.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/202965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/honglay168.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honglay168.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honglay168.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}