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Diabetes & Endocrine System | Last Active: Jan 10, 2020 | Replies (317)Comment receiving replies
@contentandwell We never know what curve balls life is going to throw us. Since my husband and I are both adopted and back in the dark ages there was no information on anything, especially health records. We were both healthy all our young and middle aged lives---no problems: a cold, or a 24 hour virus, but nothing serious. Then when we hit mature age (hate to say old), the body started sputtering and having never been sick, we are always surprised. Doctors say Ron's heart problems are genetic and that my diabetes is too, although we don't know that from family history since we don't have any. We just have to take what comes and deal with it.
Happy New Year's Eve!
Carol
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@retiredteacher I love that, "mature age". I hate it when they refer to someone on the news, younger than I am, as "elderly". I also get purple marks on my arms sometimes and discovered that they are called "senile purpura". What??? Senile simply because they are most often on older people? How insulting! I actually checked the definition of senile thinking maybe it had a broader meaning than I realized, but it does not.
I do have family history, and it's all from heart problems, both of my parents passed away in their 60s. So far, I do not have any, only my brother does but he has been fairly sedentary. My sister read recently that a too sedentary lifestyle is as much of a health hazard as smoking.
If my parents had lived longer I wonder if they would have had other health problems. I don't think they screened as much back then for diabetes, and I think what was considered to be high blood pressure was higher than it is now.
JK