Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

[mdlbear]

... to acelightning!!! Have a great one!!

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[mdlbear]

OK, that makes you only a few months younger than me. Dad died at 79, though, and I have cancer and heart disease on both sides of the family. Uploading's probably a better bet.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

Good grief, you are older than I am! On the internet, that's extremely rare.

My dad died just a month shy of his 80th birthday, but he was a smoker. I don't have any discernable genetic pattern of disease - every one of my relatives died of different things. Which means I'll probably get hit by a meteorite or something...

[mdlbear]

And stroke. I've had a couple of TIAs, and Mom had a small stroke two days ago -- my brother called last night and assured me she's recovering OK, but it's still scary. Yes, I take blood thinners and aspirin.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

I think my maternal grandfather died of a stroke, although it could have been a heart attack - it happened before I was born, and he died a week after his wife, my grandmother, died from TB. My paternal grandmother died in an insane asylum, probably of neglect; my grandfather, from lung cancer after fifty years of smoking. My father was pretty healthy, except for "smoker's cough", until he dropped dead of a massive heart attack. My mother died from complications of diabetes, which she developed after a weight loss procedure that was popular in the early 1960s destroyed her thyroid gland. She had two sisters and a brother; one sister died of lung cancer after being married to a smoker for forty years, the other of congestive heart failure resulting from high blood pressure, and her brother died of colon cancer in his eighties. So I don't know what in particular I should be taking steps to prevent... and I'm too lazy to be paranoid about everything. (I was even nearly struck by lightning once, but it missed, so I know that's not what's going to kill me.)