Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Uncle Hiram
Alcoholism is in my DNA. My body doesn't process alcohol like a normal person and the toxic (and carcinogenic) acetaldehyde stays in my system and sits in the fluid around my brain. There's nothing I did to cause it. I was born with it. My parents never drank. On my father's side, his parents never drank. I do family genealogy, and one person on that side stands out. The family moved to Indiana, bought a farm and started to make a life of it, but (as tradition says) Uncle Hiram "drank up the farm". I always wonder if this is where my bad DNA came from, and if my other ancestors were spared because they simply never drank alcohol...? Poor Uncle Hiram.
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