Alaina Urquhart

Because that's the problem.

Like I had mentioned this before and we were shocked by it, how like your body mistakes radium for calcium.

Because they're very, I guess they're chemically very similar.

They can be mistaken by the, you know, your body.

The body.

So when it tries to infuse that radium into the bones like it does with calcium, alpha particles are released by the radium and that infuses into your bones.

And those are the kind of things that cause all these awful things like cancer.

Like many of these girls, many of these young women got like different kind of cancers later in life.

And they all cause bones to disintegrate and rot and just it spreads like wildfire.

Yeah.

And you can't stop it, really.

It's so scary how delicate the human body is.

And after Molly's funeral, the family spoke to Dr. Neff to try to find out what happened, which is when they were informed that although he had kept the diagnosis from her at the time, he hadn't told Molly.

He said he was diagnosing her with the only thing he knew to do and the only thing that he had been told was the cause of this, which was syphilis.

I was thinking you were going to say that, but she did not have syphilis.

They would just label it something like that.

The company, as you can imagine, the U.S.

Radium was very excited to be able to use that cop-out as, see, it wasn't radium poisoning.

It was syphilis, and it's not our fault.

yeah wrong when they know that wasn't the real cause no now to do that to her in death like are you kidding me and the worst thing is it's like they would have like a coroner's jury at this time where like it was just like layman on a jury that would like all agree on the cause of you know i mean like it wasn't well done so it's like doctors or anything like exactly which that does change luckily but that's good