Woman's Hair Turns to Black Fingernails, Baffling Her Doctors
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| Woman's Hair Turns to Black Fingernails, Baffling Her Doctors (ABC News) |
Shanyna Isom has consulted every possible specialist, including a doctor in the Netherlands, but she still as no idea what is wrong with her.
The 28-year-old beautician and former University of Memphis law student has developed a condition so severe, fingernails grow from the hair follicles all over her body.
"Black scabs were coming out of her skin," said her mother, Kathy Gary. "The nails would grow so long and come out and regrow themselves. They are hard to touch and stick you."
The disease so far has affected not only her skin, but her bones and her vision. Because Isom is unable to walk without a cane, her mother helps her out of bed each day.
Doctors at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, where Isom is being treated, told her family that she is the only person in the world with this unknown condition.
And now she has $500,000 in unpaid medical bills. Isom has state insurance, but it doesn't cover medical care in Maryland. Her mother lost her job as a medical receptionist because she looks after her daughter at home, so savings have dried up.
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Harrell, R-Charleston, said the Budget and Control Board likely lacked the authority to split the cost of premium hikes between workers and employers after the Legislature passed a budget that fully funded the increases.
"I'm not angry, just frustrated by the action," he said, adding that defending an expected class-action lawsuit will just cost the state more money.
Gov. Nikki Haley, chairman of the five-member board, convinced a majority on Wednesday to buck the budget in approving rates to take effect Jan. 1. It's believed to be an unprecedented override for what has previously been a procedural vote. State law requires the board's approval by mid-August to prepare for open enrollment in October, when employees can make changes to their health plans for the coming year.
The 3-2 vote means rates will increase 4.6 percent for both workers — past and present — and employers, which include state agencies, school districts and public colleges. The state health plan covers 415,310 residents: public employees, retirees and their spouses and children.
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OMG! Queens teen who can text with best takes second place in Times Square contest
Kent Augustine won 10G in LG U.S. National Texting Championship
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Jamaica, Queens' own Kent Augustine during the 2012 LG U.S. National Texting Championship in Times Square.
He's got the second fastest fingers in America.
Kent Augustine, a 16-year-old Queens boy, blew home field advantage to a kid from Wisconsin, but still walked away with a cool $10,000.
“I think that I had a huge advantage because I’d been here before,” Augustine said, referring to Times Square, where the LG U.S. National Texting Championship was held on Wednesday. “
Augustine was one of 11 people who competed. Each contestant had to text sentences quickly and accurately until they crowned a champion. Repeat champion Austin Wierschke, 17, won a whopping $50,000.
The second-place winner, who once exceeded a 250-text data plan by approximately 880 texts as a fifth-grader, still has big plans. He’s going to put the loot toward a red Mustang convertible.
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