Filomina Pawar was a caregiver for 10 years to her Belgian artist partner, Eric Weets, who lived with severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Here she narrates how till his death she helped him with oxygen cylinders, chicken soup and air…
Uday Kerwar, survivor of stage 4 bladder cancer and currently Chairman of Ostomy Association of India (OAI) talks about his journey with bladder cancer, urostomy bags, its many challenges and plenty of adjustments before it becomes a part of you.…
Renu Bhuwalka from Mumbai has lived with hypothyroidism for the over 3 decades. She shares her lived experience from early symptoms to diagnosis and how she managed it well to ensure an active lifestyle.
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Patients need doctors. Sometimes they complain about doctors, and often they are grateful to doctors. What they truly want are supportive doctors. We decided to ask our community of patients with chronic conditions what they mean by supportive…
Ashwini Nalhe, 33 from Nagpur has been battling Scleroderma and a few other auto immune conditions for over 10 years now. These are rare conditions which people don’t know about, hence don’t understand. But this has torn Ashwini’s life apart…
Aakansha Khadiya is a fun loving foodie who loves trying out different cuisines, loves dancing and travelling and yet has to grapple with a condition which is not understood, is difficult to diagnose but affects the body in various ways.
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Rashmi Bhasin,48 suffers from a rare autoimmune condition called Scleroderma, as well as a host of other issues. It hasn’t been easy for her, but she doesn’t like ‘giving up’, which keeps her going through difficult times.
Who is Rashmi, the person…
Poonam Kamdar, a counseling psychologist, had stage 2 cervical cancer. Because of her traumatic journey, she now fiercely advocates for the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine which can help protect against cervical cancer and encourages women to…
Varsha (name changed on request) shares her experience of living with Schizophrenia for the last 18 years, how she has come to terms with it and how it has affected life and work choices.
WHO AM I
I feel I was a very different person…
