Truck Driver Michael Sinai of West Mifflin was waiting for a mild day this week to load his wife and children into the family car and drive around the western Pennsylvania countryside. They were hoping to run across the smell of skunk. To Andrea Sinai, 8, this was very important. She has never smelled a skunkĀin fact, until recently, she had never smelled anything. Andrea was a rare medical case, a baby born with a bony obstruction blocking both nostrils.
In 38 years of specializing in nose & throat troubles, Philadelphia's Dr. Matthew S. Ersner had seen only one previous case. If...