Reflections in Family Health
As I look back over the past several years at what my family has endured, it makes me wonder. I am one of 17 grandchildren of my maternal grandmother. Nana had five children, four of whom lived into adulthood. Nana lived into her nineties and was very healthy until she developed Alzheimer’s disease and basically wasted away. My mother died at 41 from cirrhosis of the liver and a subdural hematoma, but two other of Nana’s kids died in their 80s and one is still quite alive. None of them had much in the way of life altering diseases throughout their lives except Uncle John. He had COPD, which he developed I believe in his 70s. He lived into his 80s.
I'm so sorry for all of the dis-ease in your family. You are so right that disease and poor health conditions have increased and too believe it has to do with our environment, and lifestyle. So happy to meet you through this blog, and to talk by phone today, and to meet a fellow health coach with similar missions.
I'm happy to have met you also Mary Ellen. I see us collaborating sometime in the future. There are no accidents…only synchronicities.