how's the quality of your gene pool?

[Mixolydian]

mine is fucked.

 

[lxskllr]

Mine has frogs in it. Every time it rains...

 

[Kadarin]

Pretty good. No heart disease, no history of strokes, grandparents died in their 90s, dad born in 1927, he has no major health issues. I have no cavities. Not diabetic, no obesity. Only issue is high blood pressure.

My plan is to live forever. So far, so good.

 

[MongGrel]

Mines all over the damned place, hard to say.

 

[highland145]

Scot, Irish, German, Mutt, Portuguese tinker, the wood pile = Mixolydian.

 

[sandorski]

Baldness, ya, it sucks.

 

[highland145]

Baldness, ya, it sucks.

Unless you have a good looking bald head.

 

[highland145]

nvm

 

[Ruptga]

My worst problem is mild allergies, but I have no plans for children. Maybe eventually, around the time that down's becomes probable. Actually that's assuming I'm with someone about my age; maybe I'll finally come into enough money to be a proper ATOTer and I'll be able to pick up some 23 y/o when I'm forty. I'm not holding my breath though.

 

[EvilYoda]

Physically I fared pretty well - no allergies, athletic, no real issues yet (still early, 32). My sister and I are both very intelligent but in very different ways. Just about all of my cousins around my age are doing well in life, no black sheep.

I have poor eyesight though?

 

[nickbits]

Not good. Cancer all around, no males live past 70. I have ms.

 

[manimal]

great. My kids are rockstars and I have rockstars in my family. I am descended of royalty and the patron saint of Lawyers is my direct anscestor.

Wife comes from english and scottish royalty so her side is a bit inbred.

 

[Lean L]

Anyone get a 23andme read?

I'm 3.1% neanderthal which is the most interesting thing about my profile. The rest just says that I have no diseases and that I'm pretty average.

 

[brianmanahan]

none of my relatives have ever gone bald

so at least i got that goin' for me, which is nice

 

[alcoholbob]

Baldness, ya, it sucks.

I imagine having a little hair is worse than being completely bald since you can wear easily with a bald head.

 

[Sonikku]

mine is fucked.

Mine is worse. :'(

 

[Zodiark1593]

Not that I ever considered children, but my gene pool is definitely something to consider.

Could be worse though, like Huntington's or Fatal Familial Insomnia worse. Couple scary genetic diseases there.

 

[Imp]

Baldness, short, Alzheimer's, addiction, various other mental illnesses... Best to let this bloodline die off.

 

[BurnItDwn]

large brains, slit shaped eyes, blue eyes, left handedness, decently tall, heavyset, diabetes, early grey hairness, baldness, one great grandparent lived past 104 years old . another made it past 90, rest died loong long long ago in their 70s or 80s. 3 of my 4 grandparents still alive, in 80s or 90s. (my very favorite person in the whole world died in his late 80s)...

 

[alzan]

Pretty bad; heart issues from both sides, cancer from my mother's side, narcolepsy from my fathers' side.

I had a kidney removed in late 2013 because of a malignant mass; recently found out I have stage 4 lung cancer from a couple of kidney cells that jumped to the lungs.

 

[highland145]

Pretty bad; heart issues from both sides, cancer from my mother's side, narcolepsy from my fathers' side.

I had a kidney removed in late 2013 because of a malignant mass; recently found out I have stage 4 lung cancer from a couple of kidney cells that jumped to the lungs.

Seriously?

 

[alzan]

Seriously?

Seriously; I don't kid about my health.

My doctor even gave me terminal range; 26 months average lifespan after diagnosis while being treated. The only silver lining is that kidney cancer doesn't respond to traditional chemotherapy so she's treating me with Votrient which works by cutting off the blood supply to the cancer cells; they're mostly on my lungs pleural lining so radiation is out as well.

W00t!!

 

[BoberFett]

I put some of that stuff in it that turns color when someone pees in the pool.

Let's just say things got very colorful.

 

[highland145]

Seriously; I don't kid about my health.

My doctor even gave me terminal range; 26 months average lifespan after diagnosis while being treated. The only silver lining is that kidney cancer doesn't respond to traditional chemotherapy so she's treating me with Votrient which works by cutting off the blood supply to the cancer cells; they're mostly on my lungs pleural lining so radiation is out as well.

W00t!!

Sorry to hear. Wishing the best for you and yours.

 

[alzan]

Sorry to hear. Wishing the best for you and yours.

Thanks.

I'm not taking it lying down, I try to keep a positive outlook and "I'm gonna fight this and win" attitude. It'll all depend on the results of CAT scans of course but if the next two don't show any remission or they show growth I will most likely quit work and take some special trips with my wife, see my other family members, etc.

And yes I have narcolepsy and it's close companion cataplexy.