My brother n law is a paraplegic, he had the most awful bed sore..It was located on his hip and grew from the size of a quarter to larger than a softball in a little under a month. The smell was something unique to me, it was awful, we had to repaint his room, take up the carpet and replace it, buy him a new bed and everything. I even threw away a basket of laundry because we couldn't get the smell out of the clothing.
If human decomposition smells anything like what I was smelling, it is certainly something that is not forgotten and easily noticed.
While visiting a nursing home to see my grandmother before she passed away last month, I recognized that smell in the room next door..I asked the nurse if someone had a bed sore and she said yes that the woman next door has been bed ridden for almost 2 years and had a severe one on her foot.
