Thursday, November 4, 2010  Diabetes and Genealogy        Are
you monitoring your family’s health history in your genealogical
records?  Copyright 2010, Heather Wilkinson Rojo     1. As a
type 2, I was fascinated by your history of the disease and your
suspicions on old types of death. Maybe I need to revisit this.
Interesting, thanks.    2. Heather - Such an interesting post.
Many years ago I saw a wonderful drama on PBS about Frederick
Banting and Charles Best who were researching diabetes/insulin
in the early part of the 20th century. Diabetes is a difficult
disease. We have a young family friend with type 1. So much time
revolves around managing the disease, for everyone in the
family. I wish you and your husband the best with his type 2.
And yes, I am very interested in the health issues of past
generations. I've been progressively losing my hearing over the
last 13 years, the result of otosclerosis which I inherited from
my mom. Thankfully, I just received word from my doctor that I
am an excellent