Alaina Urquhart

Her story was like so many others.

Her pain soon spread.

Parts of her jaw started falling out of her fucking head.

And she eventually became bedridden and unable to walk.

and the local doctor was unable to diagnose her illness.

They just had no idea what was going on, but insisted that she did have some kind of radium poisoning, but nobody could prove it.

Exactly.

There were several more women with teeth, bone, jaw issues.

One woman's vertebrae disintegrated from radium incorporation into her bones, just turned to fucking dust in her back, and she collapsed.

Her vertebrae?

Her vertebrae turned to dust in her body.

Poof.

Oh my.

That's your whole ass spine being compromised by poof turning to dust.

And you'll never, ever be the same after that.

Now, back in New Jersey, the deaths of Molly Maja and growing number of illnesses among the dial painters set off a wave of speculation that the cause might be related to the radium paint, finally.

Yeah.

A former painter, Kinta McDonald, said, Yeah.

And in response, U.S.

Radium hired a Harvard-trained physiologist consultant in 1924 to evaluate the situation.