An ecstatic mum who last saw her own 96-year-old mother in late 2019, when she flew to India to say goodbye after being told her cancer was incurable, has booked to return next month after a miracle trial left her free of the disease. Given between 10 and 12 months to live in November 2019, Jasmin David, 51, was told the aggressive triple negative breast cancer she had fought off a year earlier had returned and spread to her lungs, lymph nodes and chest bone.
Devastated, after telling her husband, David Lazar, 54, and their children, Ryan, 23, and Riona, 19, Jasmin knew she had farewells to say in India – particularly to her mum, four sisters and four brothers. But she will never forget her mother Annamma Joseph’s words when she flew from her home in Manchester to Kerala in India, saying: “In my mind, I thought I would never see them again, because there was nothing the doctors could do for me.
“When I said goodbye to my mum, who is a devoted Catholic, she said, ‘No, this is not goodbye because you will come back’ – and she was right. When I found out in June 2020 there was no cancer left, I thought, ‘There is God at work.’
