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Sunday Koffron Taylor
April 5, 2011 at 9:33 pm
Yes, it sucks! For generation after generation. When I see those news stories about how this family of that had 7 or 8 deaths from breast cancer or heart disease over several generations I think my children and I will never have that kind of fair-warning because my mother at almost 70 is not allowed a copy of her birth certificate or any information about where she/we came from. In our case it is worse because we know very little of my dad’s father either. We just know that his mother and her sisters and now some of my cousins died young from heart problems. So for all I know my heart problems could be from both or all sides. I also think that all of the stress and trauma of my childhood has something to do with it too. Either way, I’d like to be her for my kids, and I can’t help but the more information I had the more likely that would be.
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Von
April 5, 2011 at 9:53 pm
Sucks and it wasn’t on the form I filled in only yesterday!
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The adopted ones
April 5, 2011 at 9:53 pm
Sunday – you’re right about it being generations impacted. Especially recessive diseases that can be passed without it showing up in a generation because you need a mate with the same recessive gene to cause the issue.
I just cannot understand why this aspect has not been at least a focus…the it will never happen to me/us mentality works until it doesn’t…
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Fran Whelan
April 6, 2011 at 12:35 pm
It’s a problem that is never considered at the time of hand over (or wasn’t) – nobody had access to anything which indicated that hereditary conditions could skip generation, or lie hidden, so long as the BM was healthy, that was all that matters. I know that my BM has to take daily medication, but nobody will tell me what it is or what it’s for – it’s like having the sword of Damocles hanging over my head – do I have a condition which I should be getting treatment for?
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The adopted ones
April 6, 2011 at 1:34 pm
Very sad indeed Fran – I do not see what people fear about revealing health conditions to family.
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