Thank you for taking a minute to comment. Mom has the Ancestry.com. It was a gift from my cousin who grew up down the street from her. At first she found it interesting but she really just does Vitamins. She has several companies that send her solicitations for pricey pills. She frequently talks about writing a book but that ship left a couple years ago. She has about five stories she tells everyone about... they're all about escaping death. The first was when she was less than five years old. My grandmother and her were very ill. A religious parade went down the street they were healed.
The others were more recent trips to the hospital when she had a serious UTI which led to a kidney infection. She waited much too long to tell me she had discomfort which she blamed on her PT. I had to carry her against her will to the car to take her to the ER. The others were a minor stroke which she had at Church and two men drove her home. My cousin worked at the Church at the time over heard them talking about the way she was talking. She called me and I called 911. She recovered well and came home after a month. Then she felt lousy. I took her to her doc and she didn't notice her heart was beating about 30 BPM. That night she called 911 when she said God told her to call 911. This was the best as she ended up with a pacemaker. That was ten years ago. She gets a new battery soon. It's easy to understand how those stories rise to the top. She prays a lot. I think I've learned some of the things that help us get older. Right at the top is actually calling 911. Do vitamins help? In her case, she lived a healthy lifestyle including exercise and a large social group of friends, relatives former coworkers. She bowled in a league up till the stroke. Thanks again for your kindness.