What is your genetic destiny?

[prolesunited]

What diseases and conditions run in your family?

Do you have any of them yet?

What are you doing to cheat fate?

[Dave Reynolds]

1. There are a few.

Funnel chest deformity, which I have.

Colon cancer and polyps, which I have not been blessed with yet.

Diabetes, but I watch my sugar and carb intake due to triglyceride readings in the 800s.

Alzheimers, but I forget who....what was the question?

[LeftyMom]

2. Depends on which side of the family

Mom's side all winds up dead of cancer before 60 (of course they all subsist on Marlboros and vodka) while Dad's side live into thier nineties with no real health or cognitive issues then die sudden deaths.

edit: Of course, genetics aren't destiny. Even if I had the crappy health genes from Mom's side I'd likely outlive them because I don't smoke, rarely drink and I eat well.

[JohnKleeb]

3. alcoholism is the biggest one I can think of

Affects both sides too so I gotta be careful.

[prolesunited]

17. Yes, you do

That's nothing to mess around with.

BTW, glad to see you back posting. :D

[JohnKleeb]

48. Thanks good to be back

[intheflow]

4. heart disease, mostly.

But I've had close family members suffer from epilepsy, alzheimer's, and MS. I guess the alzhimer's and the MS are negligible genetic traits, but both are likely to have environmental triggers, and since I lived in the same environment...
:shrug:

Knowing my luck, I'll probably eithr be hit by a truck ro live to be a bitter, sarcastic 100-year-old. :evilgrin:

[wildhorses]

5. cancer....

is it okay if I don't share any of the details?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. My dear wildhorses.......

Of COURSE it's OK.....

We respect your privacy....

Just take care of yourself, OK? :loveya: :hug:

[wildhorses]

9. sure, and thanks...you know you guys are the BEST

it is okay and I have taken preventative measures....

:hug::loveya:























I wish you would run for president:silly:
I may NEVER let you live that one down....cos you would make a damn good one!!!:patriot:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. Since when did I say I was going to run for president?

C'mon! Out with it, girl!

And, no, I wouldn't be very good.....I'm waaaaay too thin-skinned for the rough-and-tumble of real-life politics!

You are a sweetheart, and I thank you nonethless....... :hug: :loveya:

[wildhorses]

14. remember that time I posted a thread about what one wanted to

be when they grew up...when they were nine years old? I think it was something like that...I do not know how to find the link (one reason I don't have a journal...other reason I don't have one is cos I don't think I have ever said anything on here that is ...you know...of any real consequence)
excuse my digression...
back to the subject at hand...you replied that when you were little you wanted to grow up to be president but, now that you are an adult you have no desire to be....which is the EXACT reason why I think that you would make a GOOD one...because to me it shows that you are not POWER hungry and would be altruistic in your decision making...just my 2 pennies
and BTW did you know that peenies before 1982 are now worth more in copper than they are as a penny?
:hug::loveya::hug:




thanks for reading this long and somewhat rambling post

[CaliforniaPeggy]

24. Ah yes......I do remember!

I'll see if I can find the link to that......

Ramble all you want, sweetie! It's fun to read!

:loveya: :hug:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

15. I'm sorry, wildhorses.

:hug:

[wildhorses]

16. hey....I am healthy ....did NOT mean to say otherwise...

it runs in the family on both sides and all is cool....
:hug:








I can't wait for your movie, then the nomination, then I get to go shopping for my dress...I already know the color and style and jewelry.... think Vera Wang would mind if I collobrated with her on the design? what a night it will be!!!! we will have fun!!! and we will have to find a way to work DU into your acceptance speech....look, I've already got you WINNING!!!
:silly:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

19. Oh, I know you're healthy.

And I hope you stay that way. :hug:



Yes, we will have fun at the Oscars. :D

But if I'm going to take you, I'll need a pic first. :evilgrin:

[wildhorses]

20. I posted one on here a long time ago

let me see if I can find it...I found it but, I forgot how to post it
:blush: I am such a technonard
if you will tell me how I will post it for you

[Starbucks Anarchist]

21. Post it here:

www.imageshack.us

Copy the URL into the body of your reply. It should show up.

[wildhorses]

22. it is in photobucket....

can't I do it from there? That is where I did it from last time...in one of Clintmax's morning threads...

[Starbucks Anarchist]

23. Yes, you can do it from there, too.

[wildhorses]

25. but, I forgot how....

do I copy this address and paste it in?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

26. That should work.

Click on the pic, then copy and paste the address into the body of your reply. :rofl:

[wildhorses]

27. I hope this works

:blush:
I am such a dumbass but, I promise I will behave at the oscars and I will not slobber on any of the stars

[Starbucks Anarchist]

28. It works.

Hi, there!

:hi:

[wildhorses]

30. well?? do I meet your approval??

:hi:


I will look better in Vera Wang I promise...

[Wapsie B]

31. Very nice!

:thumbsup:

:)

[wildhorses]

33. Hey there...thanks

:blush:

[Wapsie B]

38. You're welcome.

:-)

[wildhorses]

39. you know what they say...

turnabout is fairplay....just sayin'

[Wapsie B]

40. turnabout?

:shrug:

for what?

[wildhorses]

42. it is your turn ....

to post a pic, silly:silly:

[Wapsie B]

43. Ok..........

But you're a hard act to follow, let me tell ya. ;-)

[wildhorses]

44. well now then....

aren't you the cutiepie?;)

[Wapsie B]

45. takes one to know one ma'am

:blush:

i've been blessed/cursed with a baby face.

[wildhorses]

46. ya musta been a beautiful baby...

cos baby look atcha now:P

[Wapsie B]

47. oooh you're making me

:blush: for real now. darn you ;-)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

32. Of course!

:D

[wildhorses]

35. cool...now then...Let's make a movie....

like if I can be of any help...just let me know

[Starbucks Anarchist]

36. Will do!

:D

[Xipe Totec]

71. You're kidding, right?

:loveya:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

34. My dear wildhorses.......

What a pretty young woman you are! Thank you for posting this pic.....

I have saved it.....

BTW, I searched the archives, and I could not raise your thread on what do you want to be when you're nine years old......

But as I said, I do remember it...... :pals:

[wildhorses]

37. thank you CalPeg!!!

and you remember you said you wanted to be president ....right:evilgrin:




you know I love ya:loveya:












I want a bumpersticker that says "CalPeg for President";)

[Wapsie B]

6. All I know is

that I don't want insurance companies to have access to my genetic information. HIPPA my ass.

[prolesunited]

11. I'm already uninsurable on my own merits

I'm just lucky to have a husband with a good job.

[Wapsie B]

13. Oh yes me too.

Ain't America great? Ya gotta be an astronaut to buy health insurance on your own anymore.

[XemaSab]

8. I'm gonna die.

:(

[prolesunited]

12. As we all are

I just don't want a crappy quality of life until I do.

[Guy Fawkes]

18. homosexuality.

Beyond that, its anyones' guess.

[prolesunited]

29. I wouldn't consider that a disease or condition

Wouldn't that be more like a trait? :shrug:

[Guy Fawkes]

56. well, OP said "genetic destiny"...

[alittlelark]

41. All g'parents died of 'total systems failure' in their late 80's - 90's

[enigmatic]

49. Melancholy

And it runs in my life too, but that's ok:)

[NMMNG]

50. Cancer, mental illness, MS, migraines

I already have the MI and the migraines, plus hypothyroidism. I've never smoked, have significantly increased my intake of fruits and veggies and no longer eat meat so that should help with the cancer risks.

[Iniquitous Bunny]

51. skin cancer

Pale, pale people with lots of it. I've been wearing sunscreen daily since I was about 20. There's also high cholesterol. Mine sucks. My parents' are terrible (and none of us are particularly overweight). Even my brother is 5' 10" and 140 pounds and his is over 250.

[Blue-Jay]

53. *

[AngryAmish]

52. The Potato Famine

[RetroLounge]

54. Alcoholism

Killed many family members.

and yes, I have it. (will be 16 yrs sober this June)

RL

[kedrys]

55. Gettin' wider in the beam

and yes, it's happening RIGHT NOW :rofl:

My mom has blue eyes, didn't get 'em, but instead got a tendancy to get large.

On the other hand, I seem to have picked up a most interesting mutation from my dad: indestructible lungs. He's smoked all his life, and they can't find an atom of soot anywhere in his lungs. Of course, that's a complete non-incentive to stop smoking...

I had to get my lungs checked in college, in the middle of, well, several years of, ya know, , and they couldn't find anything that wasn't a clean, healthy pink in there.

And my sister can drink all of y'all under the table, even though nobody in my immediate genetic neighborhood drinks.

I am picking up my exercise levels a smidge, though.

[miss_american_pie]

57. The big C, heart disease, diabetes...

high cholesterol (the inherited kind), strokes, I'm sure I'm forgetting something.

So far so good. And what a morbid question. :hi:

[prolesunited]

60. Not really morbid

I'm fighting my destiny now as I take more after my mother's unhealthy side of the family.

I eat well, don't smoke, rarely drink, exercise regularly -- all the right things -- and yet I'm still having problems, which will require even more regimentation and conscious effort.

I really envy those people who are able to do whatever they what and not face health risks as a result. I don't think they realize how lucky they are.

[miss_american_pie]

61. Ah, I see

I think eventually everyone faces the results of their lifestyle, just some have to face it sooner.

I hope your health improves.

[Ramsey]

58. Alzheimer's

My grandmother, who I look exactly like, had it. I have tried for years to keep on all the things you shouldn't do that make it more likely to get it, like drinking out of aluminum cans.

My grandfather had coronary artery disease, but he ate a really high fat country Southern cooking diet his whole life. My cholesterol has always been good, so i'm probably not at risk for that.

Anyway, I bascially try to live a healthy life, take my vitamins, eat a good low fat balanced diet, exercise 3-4 times a week, have never smoked. My one weakness is wine, but, hey, it works for the French!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

59. Actually it's difficult to tell

My mother has heart disease but it is likely a function of malabsorption due to eating disorders. My father had diabetes and his dad died of it at a young age but it (grandfather's) went untreated and adult onset of diabetes is often a function of diet. My father died of the ill-effects of an accident that lost him a leg and an eye, the stress of which led to a series of strokes. My grandparents but for my father's father all died of old age, in essence, dying anywhere from between 85 and 100. I pray I don't live that long....

[Deja Q]

62. Heart disease, poor teeth roots, Asperger's syndrome, ADD, diabetes,

homosexuality, quite a lot of things... :D

(You said "Diseases and conditions", which includes good and bad things! :D )

[Robb]

63. I'll be dead in the next five years.

Or, the next 20, depending upon whether I'm closer to DingDad or DingGrandad. Either way, kinda humbling.

Also either way, I'm livin' on a boat next summer. :headbang:

[mitchum]

64. Madness and heart attack

[Random_Australian]

65. Heart disease, Myopia, and Mental illness on both sides.

no, no, yes.
Eye excersise, healthy living, about 300,000 pages worth of stuff.

[LiberalEsto]

66. werewolfism

we keep our rabies shots up to date

[Skittles]

67. hard to say

everyone dies from alcoholism or suicide

[GOPisEvil]

68. I have no clue: I'm adopted.

:shrug:

I'm trying to eat better and I'm exercising to do what I can to stave off the grim reaper.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

69. Not worrying about cheating fate.

My mom is thin, hot, and seemingly preserved in formaldehyde. Not only is she a stepford wife, but she is mistaken for my older sister. She's completely healthy, but choses to believe she's dying. She eats like shit, is anorexicly thin, and pops a bunch of pills.

My father was overweight, but good-looking, started greying at 13 and died at 50. He was a big partier when young. He had a strep infection that destroyed his kidneys and experimental drugs gave him cancer, which the doctors never monitored him for, even though they were supposed to. No luck with suing for medical malpractice because he "wasn't a productive member of society" since he was on disability. Even though, he worked two jobs (one for city government and one bartending) until he got sick.

There's a lot of heart problems in my family. However, I eat a very healthy pescarian diet. Most of them lived off of meat. I'm physically active with karate and hiking. I like drinking and I'm quitting smoking right after I finish this ciggarette (NJ smoking ban started today and it was the last one in the pack). So far, I'm completely healthy. I'm young though and the only thing I've been diagnosed with is ADD.

Personally, I don't worry about this stuff. I think living in NJ is probably more damaging to my health than what I do to my body.

[mdmc]

70. insanity

:shrug:

[CanuckAmok]

72. Mania!

Bring it on!!

[benny05]

73. To be a John R. Edwards Supporter for President

Not to be confused with the guy who claims he is a medium, John Edward.

[hyphenate]

74. Geez

Heart disease, hypertension, high cholesterol, dying fairly young--biological mother died when she was 61 from heart related problems, grandmother was a little older: she was 69. Never knew biological paternal family, so don't know that side at all. Maternal grandfather I never knew--he died about 1930 or so. He died from tuberculosis. Diabetes runs in family as well. Only form of cancer I know of is lung cancer, but those with it had major smoking habits. Including my adoptive dad, who was my biological mother's brother.

The only good piece of biological heritage I have is that I'm very rare in one way--my wisdom teeth never came in, which I hear is very rare indeed. :) No worries from that, at least!

[bikebloke]

75. Cancer for the smokers

Guaranteed, or double your money back. As a teenager, with one puff of a cigarette, my mouth tasted so filthy dirty, that I was doomed to a healthy life. There were a couple individuals who made it into their nineties. I'll probably be one. Unless I die first. :)