In my family
history on my paternal maternal line I have a very big mystery.
A mystery as to why generation after generation
women die from indirectly or directly from Cervical Cancer.
I am certain of 3 generations who had that
fate. 4 generations if the last had the same fate.
How much further back does this genetic death
sentence make a stand?
My fathers sister
is in her early 70’s has no sign of
Cervical or other cancers. How did the
cervical cancer chain stop?
I search on
line for studies of such large proportions of family demise in cervical
cancer. I have yet to find anything
published. No answers there.
My grandmother had cervical cancer. She had surgery which removed her cervix and
of course she could no longer bear children.
20 years later the cancer manifested itself in a different way and took
her life. Grandma did have my father and
my aunt, 2 children.
Her mother
also had only 2 children her and her half brother.
So like her daughter she too had cervical
cancer and only 2 children.
No surgery
to remove the cancer so instead she died young.
There is
still the next further back generation where again womb cancer is the cause of
my 2nd great grandmother death.
She too had 2 children & early death. How ever her parentage is unknown. She was adopted into a family. In her adopted family the women had long
life.
Not one suffering from female
cancers. ** special note, not only did
her daughter die of cervical cancer but her son also died and early death. His death certificate says La Grippe. I believe La Grippe was a general death diagnosis,
very broad and very general. My
question is did he also have a fast growing cancer? Could he of had prostrate cancer? My grandma this is why I look for
studies. Can a mother pass on such
things to her son as well?
Finding out
about my 2nd great grandmother is a total unknown. The only thing left after the paper trail is
a story that Mrs. Trueblood brought her
to Garden Michigan as a graddaughter. As
I dig around the Trueblood family I do not see where she was a grandchild of
hers.
To me my Hypotheses
is that Mrs. Trueblood was attending/ or
had attended a birth, perhaps as a
midwife, of my 2nd great grandmothers mother. She must have trusted Mrs. Trueblood and had
no other family/friends to turn to. Was this unknown 3rd great
grandmother of mine also afflicted with Cervical/womb cancer? Dying and thinking of her daughter.
To my 3rd
Great grandmother, you made sure
your
daughter went to a good home. You were
able to die in some comfort with that knowledge.
How complex
our Ancestors lives were. The complexity
comes to light ever time we take the time to bring our understanding of what
their life must have been like. With our
modern medicine we can probably say why didn’t they solve their medical issues
easily? However we cannot generalize our
ancestors lives.
Every
generations is so different from the one before it or after it. Which makes
every life so intricite. How I long to
answer my questions about my 3rd great grandmother.
To reach further into her past and find out
just who she was as well as whom her co-creator of her daughter is?
If you come
across cancer studies in this area of expertise please refer me to them.
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