Posted on 11/18/2024 11:54:37 AM PST by nickcarraway
Mr mm had that and after his surgery, it was gone.
It’s a very peculiar and funky odor. I will recognize it if the cancer returns.
Nothing so far. The surgery got it all.
Thank you for sharing that. Everyone thought I was full of crap. Yes, “funky” is a good word for it. I first noticed it sleeping with her. She would lift her arm and it would hit strong. We started to do what we could to prevent it but it would never go away.
Before she passed when it finally consumed her it would fill the whole room with that same smell. It is unique for sure. Good to hear all is good with Mr MM and that you are checking for that smell regularly. Should help catch it right away like you say.
It’s not just a more sensitive sense of smell, it is a much more developed olfactory cortex. Our eyes aren’t much more sensitive than a dogs, but our extensive visual cortex processes that information and a simple glance tells us an entire story about what is happening, beyond their understanding. Dogs do the same thing with smell, but instead of just rods and cones, they have an astronomical number of building blocks to work with.
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