This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0V.2ADE/2343.2.2 Message Board Post: http://www.amyloidosis.org/ You can read about it here. My sister became very weak, then ill, and waited 1 year before seeing a doctor and then it was too late. It's where your proteins attack your organs, the weakest ones first. It was very wierd and fast~she didn't know what hit her! She almost died a month earlier, but doctors pulled her out of that on that day. I don't mind answering any questions. Our mother was from Louisiana, and most of her family lived a long time thats why I think its from my dads side. And, 5 of his 6 siblings died before the age of 20. Debbie