Stubborn with heart disease
The 46th Carnival of Genealogy topic is “What traits run in your family? Which of them did you inherit?”
The only trait that I can think of that I have inherited is a stubborn streak. Pretty much everyone in my family on my mom’s side has had very strong opinions on things. Unless you have a damn good reason to make us believe otherwise, we are going to hold tight to our ideas. Unfortunately, some of the family won’t even listen if you do have an argument against them. They would rather be wrong than admit they are wrong. At least I will concede if I realize that I am wrong.
As far as physical traits, heart disease is the only thing I could think of that runs in my family. I don’t know yet if I will have inherited it, but so far, pretty much everyone that I know of who descends from my great-great-great-grandfather, Jacob Seibert, has either died of a heart attack or had to have open heart surgery by the time they were 60 to avoid it. My mom is 56 and does have high blood pressure, but so far that’s it, so here’s to hoping that I didn’t inherit this trait.
I’m guessing it’s either your stubborn streak or Joe’s that has to do with your WP-theme remaining stubborn as well.
Oh hey, and you should have Joe install the threaded comments plugin I sent him… Good way for people to be notified of replies to their comments (WordPress doesnt’ otherwise notify you). I find it really helpful on my blog.
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April 17th, 2008 at 3:04 pmInheritance is only part of the formula for developing heart disease. Since you already know it seems to run in your family, you have the option to do something about it. I’m sure the American Heart Association has a list of those items.
Thank you for the interesting article, and for pointing out that we can inherit certain diseases, and also the tendency to develop them!
And welcome to the COG! (Carnival of Genealogy)
Janice
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April 18th, 2008 at 9:01 am