Edinburgh grandmother bakes lasagnes for hospital staff who saved her life

Edinburgh Evening News

Edinburgh grandmother Antonietta Coppola has captured the hearts of people across the world after a video of her making lasagnes and tiramisu for the hospital staff who cared for her during her cancer treatment proved a hit online.

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00:00An Edinburgh grandmother has captured the hearts of people around the world after a video of her

00:05making lasagna for the doctors and nurses who cared for her during her cancer treatment proved

00:09a hit online. 76-year-old Antonietta Coppola was diagnosed with aggressive triple negative breast

00:15cancer in 2024 and underwent two grueling surgeries to remove the tumour. She was so

00:21touched by the kindness of the staff at Edinburgh's Western General Hospital that she set about

00:25finding a special way to thank them by making them her famous lasagna. The following video

00:30which was uploaded to TikTok by one of her four granddaughters has garnered more than 70,000

00:35likes and thousands of comments.

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