This family has a disorder that literally makes their skin blue. 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 Fugates of Troublesome Creek." Relatives described the boy's great-grandmother Luna Fugate as "blue all over," and "the bluest woman I ever saw."
It involves both genetics and geography, an entire family from isolated Appalachia was tinged blue. Now because of diversity in the gene pool doctors don't see it as much. To me, it still seems like a crazy thing to have blue skin.
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haha that would be funny to see i think. im sure they dont like it much, but i think most people get a rise out of it.
That is pretty interesting that his skin was blue and that his great great grandparents were the last in his family to have blue skin. I would've thought it was some kind of sickness too, but if the blue skin isn't causing any health issues, I guess it's all alright.
That's weird but i think that it would be kinda cool to have blue skin. Except there would be a lot of people wanting to take pics with you cause you would have blue skin.