For most of her life, Joy Milne was completely unaware of the incredibly useful — though terrifying — superpower she possessed. Then, a Parkinson’s diagnosis (and everything that followed) made the signs impossible to ignore.
The two met in high school. Les was a 17-year-old swimmer and Joy was 16, a new transfer. She remembers dancing with him at a party and being struck by his wonderful smell."He had a lovely male musk smell. He really did," she recalls.
At first Joy thought it must be something from the hospital where he worked and told him to shower, but that didn't help, and over the weeks and months that followed the smell just seemed to grow stronger.But the smell wouldn't yield, and eventually Les got mad whenever Joy told him to shower. He couldn't smell it, he grumbled, and neither could anyone else.
They fought more and more. So many of the qualities Joy valued in her husband — his thoughtfulness, his patience, his quiet dignity, began to bleed away until eventually, by his early 40's, she began to see Les as a totally different person."He was sort of screaming and shaking me and you know, but he was totally oblivious of it," she says.
She says once she made her discovery clear his eyes widened:"He's a doctor, we both understood the significance. Immediately."
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