[xJones]

The myriad autoimmune diseases can often take a long time to diagnose officially to where any medical insurance will pay for the often very expensive prescriptions. A good friend of mine has been suffering the last 11 months from daily low-grade fever, terrible fatigue, frequent memory loss, etc., and the doctors are convinced it is due to a specific autoimmune disease that can take years to build up enough that it shows up in blood tests.

It runs in her family, among the last 12 female descendants of her material grandmother, 6 have been diagnosed so far with an autoimmune disease and my friend's mother died from one.

[meatloaf]

There may be a reason that generations have been affected starting with the maternal grandmother.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/227013_toxics03.html