![]() ![]() But most importantly, after helping care for my grandmother during her illness and being at her side for her last breath, no one will have to twist my arm about getting my first colonoscopy during this, my 50 th year. I’ve also decided to give up social drinking, except for the occasional glass of red wine. Once my sons are out of the house I plan to commit to a vegetarian diet, like my daughter, because I side with the research that shows vegetarians tend to be on lowest rung of the cancer-risk ladder. I, for one, have become cautious about what I eat and avoid red meat. Needless to say my family members and I grew concerned about a genetic predisposition to the disease. But we don’t just rely on history to prove the therapeutic benefit of… MORE ⟩⟩ That explains why it was documented in the oldest medical writings. The golden-colored oil of the Nigella sativa plant contains compounds essential for a healthy immune system. Another of my grandmother’s nieces was diagnosed early and has, thankfully, been cancer free for several years. ![]() But rather than a trick, fate may have been more like it.īefore my family suffered the devastating loss of our beloved matriarch, my grandmother lost her baby sister and another sister’s daughter to the same dreaded disease a few years earlier. ![]() To live such a long healthy life only to be forced to battle such a formidable enemy in her golden years seemed like a cruel trick of fate. I was very angry when she was diagnosed about a year before we lost her. I recently lost my grandmother at the age of 88 to colon cancer. But she and her sisters were never really far from each other, visited often and remained close throughout the years. My grandmother left her small hometown to marry my grandfather–a dark-haired handsome Italian gentleman who whisked her away to a bigger city a state over. My grandmother was the most loving person I’ve encountered in life, and one of five beautiful southern sisters who grew up in Aberdeen, Mississippi. ![]()
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