Alaina Urquhart
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And out of ideas, her dentist visited the radium plant and asked for the ingredients in the compound, just hoping to clue in on her problem.
But the managers at the plant were uncooperative and refused to provide any information about the paint to him.
Pieces of absolute shit, those people.
And the situation continued to confound her doctor, her dentist, Dr. Neff, and those with whom he was consulting.
He was trying to get anybody to like he stopped at nothing to try to get some answers here.
So you might as well shut down production.
And just be on it, like try to save some people.
So Dr. Neff said whenever a portion of the affected bone was removed, instead of arresting the course of necrosis, it speeded it up.
By the fall of 1922, Molly's condition had worsened and her entire jaw, having largely disintegrated at this point, was removed.
And they had to remove pieces of her inner ear as well.
And then it's like, can you even, she probably couldn't even speak anymore.
Again, I'm going to tell you, this gets very, very graphic, even more graphic.
It was at that time that doctors discovered whatever had affected Molly's teeth and jaw had now spread and was eating away at her throat.
So they were unable to stop this, which is horrifying because they just could once radiation once it's in there.
What do you can't do anything like it's it's happening.