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The disorder can cause heart abnormalities and seizures if the amount of methemoglobin in the blood exceeds 20 percent, but at levels between 10 and 20 percent it can cause blue skin without other symptoms. Most of the Fugates lived long and healthy lives. The "bluest" of the blue Fugates, Luna Stacy, had 13 children and lived to age 84. [6]
The review concludes that Book Woman is "A unique story about Appalachia and the healing power of the written word." [ 17 ] Publishers Weekly called the book a "gem of a historical", and though the review notes that the ending seems abrupt, "and some historical information feels clumsily inserted, readers will adore the memorable Cussy and ...
The Fugates, a family that lived in the hills of Kentucky in the US, had the hereditary form. They are known as the "Blue Fugates". [ 30 ] Martin Fugate and Elizabeth Smith, who had married and settled near Hazard, Kentucky , around 1800, were both carriers of the recessive methemoglobinemia (met-H) gene, as was a nearby clan with whom the ...
Blue people may refer to: Methemoglobinemia, a disorder that can turn skin blue the Blue Fugates, an Appalachian family with congenital methemoglobinemia; Cyanosis, a general medical condition that can turn skin blue Blue baby syndrome, cyanosis in babies; A name for the Tuareg people, from their traditional clothing
Fugate is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: the "Blue Fugates," a Kentucky family with hereditary methemoglobinemia; Boyd C. Fugate (1884–1967), American politician; Caril Ann Fugate (born 1943), American murderer; Christine Fugate (born 1964), American documentary filmmaker; Craig Fugate (born 1959), American government ...
Colleen M. Fitzpatrick (born April 25, 1955) is an American forensic scientist, genealogist and entrepreneur. She helped identify remains found at the crash site of Northwest Flight 4422, that crashed in Alaska in 1948, and co-founded the DNA Doe Project which identifies previously unidentified bodies and runs Identifinders International, an investigative genetic genealogy consulting firm ...
James Fugaté (February 13, 1922 – March 28, 1995) was an author and activist in the gay rights movement. [1] Fugaté wrote several works under the pseudonym James Barr. [2]
Blue Highways Revisited: Written and photographed by Edgar I. Ailor III, and Edgar I. Ailor IV, Blue Highways Revisited is a 30-year follow-up to Heat-Moon's original book. The Ailors re-travel the routes of Heat-Moon and seek out the sites he visited, as well as the people he interacted with along the way.