Beating cancer and making the world a better place - one life jacket at a time

Biopsy-check. Chemos-check. Other gazillion procedures-check. A whole new experience-check.  Finally. From my first post, I have been waiting to update to this one, and through this long journey or cries, pain, needles, suffering, drama, hospital, disease and all, finally I write this. From tomorrow, my last leg of treatment that is radiation starts, which is lot a very long and tedious process, so no worries. But this journey was a journey of lifetime. Though I never wish anyone to go through this or anything similar, the two main lessons I have learnt  may come in help to others. So here is goes: 1) Always believe something wonderful is going to happen. I am not just saying this for the sake of saying, but its actually proven. I was an exquisite case in the hospital to whom something peculiar and wrong would always happen. Whether it was a chemotherapy, or insertion of a port or what not, something always and always went wrong. I was literally the joke and whenever ...

It's 1 AM. My nose is blocked from everywhere. And I am lying on my bed, surrounded with hair. Yeah, my hair started to fall again. Yuck. Worst feeling. Like it just started growing man. And it's not even like regular hairfall. It's like when you have a dog and then you have fur everywhere. It's warm, I am feeling so hot but I can't turn on the AC because of my nose. Such an irony. But the best part in this whole dilemma is that I HAVE JUST ONE MORE CHEMO LEFT. I am just too overwhelmed thinking in two weeks there won't be any more chemotherapies to go through. Phew. Okay, so just let me update you on my recent events. My doctor has stated that I am metabolically out of cancer and gave me a long fancy explanation but what I only heard was that I AM OUT OF CANCER. Sad part I have another chemotherapy left so that no relapses ever happen. So my chemo side effects are horribleee. After this 3 weeks of radiation and then Hello College! I cannot wait to be back t...

So I had not updated my blog for months now, and I really wanted to publish this post. Nevertheless my stupid health decided to take a toll today so that gave me another excuse to write something from bed. Well, this is a little different post, as this is not going to be about cancer, but more about me. Since I am almost out of it, I decided to make this a bit more personal, rather than this stupid disease. If I had to put my life in one sentence, I would just say 'Living every moment'. Like most Sagis, I am a spontaneous soul who objects the barriers of societal cages and likes to fly in every direction, come what may. Call me cliched, but Rom-Coms with Rocky Road and snuggly blankets are my favourite. My best friends mean everything to me. And I love art. Food is my life and Chocolates my heart beat. Often called the 'baby' of the group, I need constant supervision and I dont believe in the concept of growing up. Yeah your skin can show your wrinkles but why your h...

Some might say its a half glass empty, and some might call it a half glass full. I call it a complete glass full. Half with water, and half with air. Afterall everything matters. During some terrible days, we sometimes end up losing hope and end up in despair. Everything seems horrible at that time, and there is a mental war going inside. But we never realize that during the happy days we enjoyed, we never thought of those bad days, Never anticipated anything bad. So why do we lose hope during the bad ones. The only difference between a bad day and a good day is our perspective. Every thing is actually the same, but it just matters how we take it. We can take a bad day as a challenge, as an opportunity to improve ourselves for better, to make our selves stronger and to take control of our situation in our hands. Sometimes life jackets are disguised. You just have to identify it. Its always right there, near you. Good friends are like sound health. We don't realize the importance...

They say Cancer is one of the deadliest diseases to fight. Conquering this, brings me a title of a survivor. But my mere intention was not to become a survivor, but a warrior. Throughout my two months till now, People continuously told me to be strong, fight it out and never give up. It became way more difficult for me because of my constant fear of this disease and my low thresh hold to pain. What I realised was more than the disease it was the fear that was my enemy. My amazing doctor would take care of those horrible cells, but what about the inner fear that was jeopardizing my recovery mentally and physically. Cancer does not only play with your physical state. It weakens and breaks you down mentally. When people told me all those theoretical and factual facts about cancer, the real experience is way different. Your mind starts to control you rather than you controlling your mind. The fear, which is produced by the brain was nothing but the biggest obstacle. Fear can be of anyth...

To start with, this is my first hand at blogging. Not very fancy or sophisticated kind of writing, but just a plain simple experience of battling one of the world's deadliest disease, and my greatest fear- Cancer. I started this new experiment just with one objective, that whatever I learn during this journey, I can share it with the world so that it can help anyone in need. Well, not only that but Cancer got me stuck at home so this is a kind of my only way to do something productive. I got diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Stage 3 on 27th March 2015. Before that I had to go through multiple tests and a surgical biopsy to confirm, but trust me I had no symptoms. Now when I say, 'battling my fear', the only reason is because Cancer was my biggest fear. Phobic of needles and doctors from the start, I was even reluctant to go for a blood test, Let alone a full fledged Surgery. The doctors never told me about the possibility of Cancer, but informed my parents that this...