i asked around, and there's no family history of celiac on either side. that just makes it that much less likely.
my mom claims everybody on that side has "irritable bowel syndrome", but the truth is that they're all drunks with shitty diets and they're just suffering the consequences of making bad choices - ibs is one of those made up diseases that doctors use to describe people with bad lifestyle choices. and, i don't have any of those symptoms, either....nor do i exhibit any of the trigger behaviours.
she claims her father had some colon issues, and then said it "runs in the family". but, colon issues aren't actually genetic - they're mostly caused by eating meat, which i mostly don't do. she thinks everything is genetic.
celiac is genetic; colon cancer isn't.
i got an interesting response from my uncle though, who claims he had a bad case of diverticulitis - a condition that, like celiac, is genetic. remember when i had a terrible reaction to what i thought was a sunflower seed allergy, and concluded that it felt like i shit my intestines open? well, that's diverticulitis.
it went away, but the consistency of my stool hasn't recovered. that said, that's also when i brought in things like beets, as well as the probiotic yogurt. it's probably the latter.
but, of the collection of weird intestinal conditions brought up, it's diverticulitis that makes the most sense to watch for, so far.