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

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...