If you're lucky enough to have a grandmother, she probably comes with grandma-isms (or nana-isms). In my case, they are baba-isms – phrases of my grandmother uses over and over again. For example, whenever my grandmother Russian speaking meeting someone speak English and I am standing, it points to me and says proudly: "She is my granddaughter number one. "It could be her surgeon or her butcher.

Sometimes you get extra bonus luck and your own custom baba ISM. Reserved only for you – from Baba mouth only. Mine was: "You … you I do not care. "

It was that Baba was diagnosed with colon cancer, I realized exactly what she meant. It was then that I realized that I never worried about Baba either.

As one of the strongest women I have ever known, Baba took a life that spans three continents and events worthy of an Oscar winning performance. Baba came ready to deliver "when I was your age" story that was sure to win all the others. But his performance was not too dramatic – just dictate the minutes of his life to a reporter.

An orphan at seven o'clock in the former Soviet Union, has experienced famine, war world, and death among teenagers of his only sister. But Baba is a fighter and maintains the mantra that all this will work out.

Baba is a great woman business of another generation with a keen eye for cards and cash. When everyone was 175 million rubles per month in the factory Baba took a second job to wash the curtains in her bathtub. Pulling rubles in a solid $ 350 per month, baba always Work It Out, and then some.

Thus No, I never worried about Baba.

Baba was the first in our family to immigrate to America and the reason I live New York City (eternal gratitude for that one!) It is a famous manufacturer of cakes, my baba. And when I say glory, I mean the great Brighton beach. Enter the renowned bakery and ask Kievsky cake. Then tell them that you are the granddaughter Maya. Stand back!

And Brooklyn to Bakersfield, baba knows someone everywhere. Although beyond the Hudson River, Baba has friends everywhere. Los Angeles, Cuba, Calgary, Springfield. Everywhere I go nowhere, she has a boyfriend there. Or know someone moving there. Or a friend with a daughter who lives there. And they all come with a descriptive history.

Baba heard stories of each. You can imagine what happens when someone who knows everybody gets a hold of stories each. Lets just say if you ever want to run a good rumor, baba is old school viral marketing.

Seven years ago baba surgery for cerebral aneurysm she knowingly walked with for the last decade. When the pressure of the aneurysm was have to be blind, she agreed to brain surgery. He was 5 months before the leader was the grand-daughter is getting married and she was not going to be able to see her granddaughter here as a bride. This surgery, which is considered moderately complex 10 years ago, had now received a difficulty rating of very complicated. But Baba was not worried. She had faith it would be nice.

This was also the then I noticed she started thanking God a lot. Three weeks after surgery, at his home on the first day of hospital Baba started the nursing home out of his house. Apparently she did not know the proper way to make tea.

Baba is a path Mapquest. Wherever you are on the road, she knows how to get there. Lest you cast doubt on his keen sense of navigation, it is just there route number down. "Are you taking 80 or 64 … because I like 80. It's so much green. "

PS: Baba does not lead, it is that the ubiquitous driver's seat forward. It is nauseating in the back seat and when Baba entered the car, it must be in the front seat. Taxis are no exception.

So life has not always been easy for baba. But he has life served with an exclamation point with all #@$$#%$^%& Between them. His life has been up and down sandy and hard and full of tears and full of joy and full of love. It is a life full of stories and strength and survival and faith and family. She lives this life, the star of an extraordinary epic, which is only hers. It is a life that has made my baba who she is … and therefore gave me the granddaughter she never worried about it.

A cake baker, a keeper of history, a driving compass. No, I never worried for my baba.

When my grandmother was diagnosed with cancer colon last month, we all reacted textbooks. My mother, completely in denial, cursed the doctor who sent for colonoscopy in the first place. My uncle went to Action mode medical – Operation Commander. I stayed a generation removed; powerless in decision making and sitting in an uncomfortable back seat.

So I reacted in a way that was foreign to my repertoire of response. I was overwhelmed by a sense of faith. Not necessarily in the religious sense, but in the strong sense force. I have faith in life. Because at 78, Baba has a long life to make, stories to tell, great grandchildren to meet and baba-isms giving.

To put it bluntly – I think that Baba Russian can kick ass cancer.

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