February 23, 2012
Fugates of Kentucky: Skin Bluer than Lake Louise
Benjamin “Benjy” Stacy so frightened maternity doctors with the color of his skin — “as Blue as Lake Louise” — that he was rushed just hours after his birth in 1975 to University of Kentucky Medical Center. As a transfusion was being readied, the baby’s grandmother suggested to doctors that he looked like the “blue […]
Tags: Benjamin "Benjy" Stacy, Dr. Ayalew Tefferi, intermarriage, Lake Louise, Luna Fugate, methemoglobinemia, recessive gene, University of Kentucky Medical Center