Navjot Singh Sidhu opens up about his wife’s recovery from cancer
Once Team India’s opener, Navjot Singh Sidhu struck an emotional chord today by opening up about his wife Navjot Kaur Sidhu’s recovery from cancer and shared a message of resilience and hope in the face of adversity.
Sidhu said a positron emission tomography (PET) scan was conducted on his wife, which testified that she was clinically cancer-free now.
Sidhu said besides the medical treatment, it was Navjot Kaur's will power and change in the lifestyle that had yielded the results.
Navjot Kaur was diagnosed with Stage-IV invasive cancer and had to undergo breast surgery for “rarest of rare metastasis”. She underwent treatment at Rajindra Hospital, Patiala, and Dr Waryam Singh Hospital, Yamunanagar.
Speaking about the challenging period, Sidhu said his wife had to undergo painful chemotherapy sessions.
Sidhu said the whole family did extensive research, read books written on cancer by Indian and US doctors, and Ayurveda. They zeroed in on common denominator that lifestyle and food habits had to be changed, he said.
“We learnt that cancer inflammation comes from milk, carbohydrates like wheat, refined maida, refined sugar, refined oil, milk products and aerated drinks. It was totally cut off from her diet. She was put on ancient ‘desi’ remedies like warm water with lemon, neem (Indian lilac), raw turmeric, garlic, etc," he said.
"The diet help reduced the cancer’s lifeline. After 45 days, she underwent a surgery, and in the PET scan, cancer was not detected,” he said.
'Will come back in politics if high command desires'
Refraining from commenting on politics, Navjot Singh Sidhu said he would make a comeback only if the Congress high command wished him to do so. “The party’s high command is there to take a call on it," he said. The former Punjab Congress chief has not been active in politics since he came out of a jail after serving a sentence in a road rage case. Despite being in the list of star campaigners, he didn’t campaign for the party in the Lok Sabha elections.
