Kara
Coverage of Kara in the Nexus archive.
- ‘RHOC’ star Jeana Keough shares tongue cancer diagnosis, says she can’t talk
Jeana Keough, a star of 'Real Housewives of Orange County,' has been diagnosed with tongue cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy and radiation. Treatments have caused severe pain, malnutrition, a blood clot, and left her unable to speak. She had two surgeries, with the second removing lymph nodes where the cancer spread.
- Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code
Kara, an apprentice software engineering student in 1999, automated a manual data entry task for a Y2K supplier audit program by writing a script to extract data from a Unix minicomputer and transfer it to an Access database. Despite the script freezing the PC, her solution impressed her temporary boss, leading to a full-time job at the company where she later supported the problematic database.