A Scottish woman with a remarkable ability to smell Parkinson’s disease has shared how she noticed a change in her husband’s scent more than a decade before his official diagnosis. Joy Milne, from Perth, has an incredibly rare hyper-sensitive sense of smell, earning her the nickname “the woman who can smell Parkinson’s”. It was this unique ability that alerted her to something being wrong with her late husband, Les, long before doctors confirmed it.
Joy and Les had been together since they were 16, meaning she knew his scent better than anyone. They married after college, started a family, and both pursued medical careers—Les as a doctor and Joy as a nurse. But something changed when he reached his early 30s, reported the Express.
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